Living Walls & Vertical Gardens Course
This course equips architects and designers with practical skills to create effective living walls and vertical gardens that reduce building temperatures, improve air quality, enhance biodiversity, and beautify urban environments. Participants learn to select systems, engineer irrigation, pick resilient plants, ensure structural integrity, prioritize safety, and plan sustainable maintenance for long-term success in challenging city settings.

from 4 to 360h flexible workload
valid certificate in your country
What will I learn?
Discover how to design, specify, and maintain high-performing living walls and vertical gardens tailored for crowded urban areas. Master setting performance goals, evaluating local climate and rules, selecting tough plants, building irrigation and support systems, and organizing safe, affordable upkeep to boost cooling effects, wildlife support, cleaner air, and people’s comfort.
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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 species suited to local climate, aesthetics, and minimal maintenance.
- Develop robust systems covering structure, waterproofing, safety, maintenance, and team training.
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