Green Façades
Bringing vegetation onto the vertical surfaces of buildings — one of TSF UrbaNature's nature-based approaches to cooler, greener, more biodiverse cities.
What is a green façade?
A green façade is a vegetated system applied to the vertical surface of a building, rather than to a roof. Typically, climbing or trailing plants are trained up a supporting structure — a trellis, cables or mesh — fixed to or standing in front of a wall, so the plants form a living, growing layer over the built surface. It's a distinct technique from a green roof, which covers a horizontal surface, and from a living-wall system, where plants grow directly in modular panels of substrate fixed to the wall rather than climbing from ground or planter level.
Why cities use them
Green façades are generally used to help cool building surfaces and the street around them, soften hard architecture, add habitat for insects and birds along dense urban corridors, and bring greenery to sites with little or no ground-level space to plant into. They can often be added to an existing building without roof access or structural work to a rooftop.
Green façades are part of TSF UrbaNature's nature-based solutions. A documented TSF case study for this approach is coming soon.
Every square metre counts.