Vertical Garden Benefits:
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Reduce heat island effect in cities. (Professor Hiroyuki Yamada) |
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Reduce the temperature until 5 degrees inside a building in summer and keep the temperature in winter, saving up to 500 € / m2 per year. (Hoyano Akira (Professor, Tokyo Institute of Technology) |
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Reduce flooding, retaining rainwater in storm |
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Urban spaces not used are more attractive |
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Do not use water because works as a closed water circuit |
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Do not attract or allow the proliferation of insects and bacteria because is provided of a biological repellent |
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Health Benefits |
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1m2 of a vertical garden generated the oxygen required by a person in the whole year. (Darlington, 2001) |
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1m2 of a vertical garden wall, traps 130 grams of dust per year. (Darlington, 2001) |
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A building of 60m2 with a vertical garden wall filters 40 tons of harmful gases. (Wolverton et al. 1989) |
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A building of 60m2 with a vertical garden wall is able to trap and process 15 kg of heavy metals. (Darlington, 2001) |
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Improves performance and reduces discomfort of people with vegetation in their workplace. (Lohr et al .. 1996; Bringslimark, et al. 2007) |
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The vegetal insulation reduced until 10 decibels the noise pollution. (Hoyano Akira (Professor, Tokyo Institute of Technology) |
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The culture of sustainability are promoting in Spain so, the green roofs and green walls are promoted as a system of long-term waterproofing. The problems in construction with the UV rays when you install a normal roof, doesn’t exist if you install a green roof, increasing the wall life’s more than 30 years, which translates into considerable savings.
The roofs and green walls are also a natural insulator of heat and noise, in addition to cooler spaces due to plant transpiration, thus reducing the use of air conditioners.
Historically the great changes of consciousness in humanity stages are derived from deep suffering (war, natural disaster, famine, etc.)..
Teaching our children to care and improve our environment, avoid the deterioration of natural resources.
Inheriting a sick world doesn’t give us the right to deliver to future generations. |
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