Apartment house Zurich
Profiles
Place: Zurich
Year: 2013
Greening system: Gomes vertical Green
Irrigation: Fully automatic with water connection, no circulation.
Area: 100 m2
Planting: about 5000 plants, native to Mediterranean plants.
Location: Slope; in covered light well with 1.2 meter width and 5 meter depth
Advantages/Benefits: Apartments have windows into the light well on the slope side. This allows more light penetration, natural ventilation and a beautiful view into the apartment. Increasing the quality of living. The rentability has been proven to increase significantly (according to feedback from the owner).
Plantation
ca.5000 Plants, native to Mediterranean
Spurge– Euphorbia martinii
Spurge– Euphorbia Silver Swan
Cushion aster– Aster «Snow Bride»
Summer aster – Aster frikartii
Tall cinquefoil– Potentilla recta
Spindle bush – Euonymus Fortunei
Star moss – Sagina subulata
some buttercups – sedum
Moss saxifrage – Saxifraga
Wild strawberry – Fragaria vesca
Autumn anemone – Anemone hybrida
Zittergras – Brizza Media
Wood Marble –Luzula sylvatica
Deer tongue– Asplenium scolopendrium
jap. Glossy Umbrella Fern – Polysticum polyblepharum
Shield fern – Polysticum braunii
Shrub Veronica – Hebe
Japanese Blood Grass – Imperata cylindrica ‹Red Baron
Soft lady’s mantle – Alchemilla mollis
various splendid spireas – astilbes
Yellow iris – Iris pseudacorus
Ox eye – Buphthalmum salicfolium
Bartfaden – Penstemon hartwegii
Cinquefoil– Potentilla nepalensis
Bellflowers– Campanula
various sedges – Carex
Stone Seed – Lithodora diffusa
Specifically
Due to the hillside location, the two lower residential floors are underground on the slope side. In order to increase the quality of the building and living, the building was built offset from the slope so that a light space is created between the building and the slope. This space protects the building from moisture and at the same time brings more light into the two floors below ground on the slope side. Vertical greenery with over 5000 plants adorns the light space and creates a very pleasant and healthy living environment. Noise and odors from the adjacent kitchen and bathroom windows are reduced and more privacy is created. This plant wall is visible from each slope-side window, as well as from the stairwell and glazed transition.
Special:
- With 100m2 the largest plant wall in Switzerland
- Only one meter width, also special for maintenance
- Neither interior nor exterior, something in between
- Light situation, much less light at the bottom than at the top. The whole wall is illuminated with artificial light during the day. In the evening with ambient light for a beautiful mood
- Little air movement, ventilation had to be installed