Living Walls & Vertical Gardens Course
This course equips architects and designers with essential skills to create effective living walls and vertical gardens that reduce building temperatures, improve air quality, enhance biodiversity, and beautify urban environments. Participants will master system selection, irrigation design, plant selection, structural detailing, safety protocols, and strategies for sustainable long-term maintenance in challenging city settings.

from 4 to 360h flexible workload
valid certificate in your country
What will I learn?
Discover how to design, select materials for, and maintain high-performing living walls and vertical gardens tailored for crowded urban areas. Master setting performance goals, evaluating local weather and rules, picking tough plants, engineering watering and support systems, and organizing secure, affordable upkeep to boost cooling effects, wildlife support, cleaner air, and people’s well-being.
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Develop skills
- Design climate-resilient living walls by establishing KPIs for cooling, air quality, and biodiversity.
- Evaluate urban sites by assessing microclimate, building structure, regulations, and drainage.
- Design efficient irrigation systems, including sizing, automation, and water optimization for vertical gardens.
- Choose and arrange plant varieties suited to local climate, aesthetics, and minimal maintenance.
- Develop robust systems covering structure, waterproofing, safety, maintenance, and staff training.
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