Artist Research/Precedent - Patrick Blanc - Simon Crane

http://www.verticalgardenpatrickblanc.com/#/en/projects/typological

Patrick Balnc is a botantist and artist who utlises plants to create vertical plant facades on the sides of buildings. His work is a great precednt for this site, which has many large vertical faces that beg to be utilised. 

He asks the question, how else can we involve plant life into residential and urban schemes, and how can we do this effectivley and aesthetically.

 

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