Vertical garden modular system – Citadine

Green modular wall

The first modular wall was built in the 1930s and was designed by American Professor White, who called the individual modules of the green wall botanical bricks. Modular “green bricks” could be properly put together and built from them spatial objects.

Modern modular wall systems are much more complex than gabion green wall systems. The entire structure consists of three essential elements:

– the structure on which the modules – attached to the vertical surface – e.g. the wall of the building are mounted,

– modules filled with soil substrates in which plants grow, attached to the prepared structure,

– automatic irrigation system, which connects all the modules of the structure into a network – nourishes and irrigates plants greening the wall.

The modules are made of lightweight materials (e.g. plastics) and assembled from several parts, on the sides of the modules there are locking systems which allow them to be joined together, attached to a vertical or horizontal frame.

The substrate used for filling the modules must be: light, adapted to the species composition of the greening plants of the module and to the existing environmental conditions under which the green wall is located. [5] The soil substrate mixture should contain appropriate compositions of organic and non-organic compounds and elements of light substrate (porous mineral granules, coconut fibres, etc.) [6]

The selection of plants depends on the environmental conditions in a given location of the “vertical garden” and its exposure to the directions of the world. Plants can be evergreen or dump leaves for the winter. [7]

The whole system must be connected to the automatic irrigation system is a heavy construction, so it is important to consult its placement on a given wall with the building builder (both in the case of professionally made structures and performed amateurly by private users).

Fig. 15 “Green wall located in the inner patio in one of Wrocław’s office buildings – composed ofrunianka (Pachysandra)and bodziszka(Geranium).”) ) Author: Agnieszka Dudzińska – Jarmolińska

An example of the selection of vegetation for greening modular walls.

For professionals.

– Modular systems are designed and set up by specialized companies involved in the installation of such systems. As with green roofs, it is important to protect the walls very accurately from possible moisture.

Examples of construction solutions by company – gsky.

https://gsky.com/pro/cad-specs/

For society:

Although modular walls are complex systems, you can also make these types of structures on your own.

1) We need to carefully protect the wall from possible moisture, e.g. pvc film, or make free-standing structures on which we will place the modules made by us.

2) We mount structures to such a secured wall, on which green modules will be attached. (It is important not to pierce the done insulation.)

3) Modules can be made from store boxes, where, for example, bread is transported to the shops every morning.