Green wall - an ornament of the Park's administration Longwood Gardens

Walls covered with vines, ivy or other plants (even whole herb houses ), of course, very few people can surprise you. Is that the residents of the Sahara. That's just usually the exterior walls of buildings. But in the administrative building of the park Longwood Gardens in Pennsylvania town of Kennet Square the other day will be presented the largest in North America, green wall,located inside the house.

Green Wall will be the main decoration, "chip" a new administrative building of the park Longwood Gardens, designed by architect Kim Wilkie (Kim Wilkie). The very same wall created a design company GSky, specializing in green design.

Green Wall will be located in the main corridor of the park administration Longwood Gardens. The area of ​​this unusual decorative elements will be 380 square meters. It is twice more than the green wall in Pittsburgh who wore before the title of the largest such facility in North America.



This wall in the Longwood Gardens will consist of 47,000 ferns. Moreover, a special type of fern that can grow without land.

It is expected that the green wall will be the "lungs" of the building in which it resides. By counting the biologists, the year she will be able to process up to 700 kilograms of dust and toxins. And the more visitors will be in this building, the more it will absorb carbon dioxide, and thus produce more oxygen.