Vertical garden for the Palace of Congresses in Vitoria-Gasteiz

27/06/2014. By Urbanarbolismo and Unusualgreen. [Vitoria-Gasteiz] Spain
metalocus, ALEX DURO

The new system f+p preplant is used for reducing the energetic consumption of the Place of Congresses in Vitoria-Gasteiz through several surrounding vegetal species.

Outside vision. Vertical garden for the Palace of Congresses in Vitoria-Gasteiz. By Urbanarbolismo and Unusualgreen. Photography © courtesy of Urbanarbolismo and Unusualgreen.

Outside vision. Vertical garden for the Palace of Congresses in Vitoria-Gasteiz. By Urbanarbolismo and Unusualgreen. Photography © courtesy of Urbanarbolismo and Unusualgreen.

Vegetal façade. Vertical garden for the Palace of Congresses in Vitoria-Gasteiz. By Urbanarbolismo and Unusualgreen. Photography © courtesy of Urbanarbolismo and Unusualgreen.

Detail of the system. Vertical garden for the Palace of Congresses in Vitoria-Gasteiz. By Urbanarbolismo and Unusualgreen. Photography © courtesy of Urbanarbolismo and Unusualgreen.

Façade detail. Vertical garden for the Palace of Congresses in Vitoria-Gasteiz. By Urbanarbolismo and Unusualgreen. Photography © courtesy of Urbanarbolismo and Unusualgreen.

Vertical garden for the Palace of Congresses in Vitoria-Gasteiz. By Urbanarbolismo and Unusualgreen. Photography © courtesy of Urbanarbolismo and Unusualgreen.

Night vision. Vertical garden for the Palace of Congresses in Vitoria-Gasteiz. By Urbanarbolismo and Unusualgreen. Photography © courtesy of Urbanarbolismo and Unusualgreen.

Night vision. Vertical garden of the Congress Palace of Vitoria-Gasteiz. Urbanarbolismo and Unusualgreen. Photography courtesy of Urbanarbolismo and Unusualgreen.

System detail. Vertical garden for the Palace of Congresses in Vitoria-Gasteiz. By Urbanarbolismo and Unusualgreen. Image © courtesy of Urbanarbolismo and Unusualgreen.

Section. Vertical garden for the Palace of Congresses in Vitoria-Gasteiz. By Urbanarbolismo and Unusualgreen. Image © courtesy of Urbanarbolismo and Unusualgreen.

Within the Inside Green Ring Project which those studios have developed previously for the city of Vitoria-Gasteiz we find the new vegetal façade for the Palace of Congresses of the city. Their proposal is to recreate the surrounding ecosystem into the city center. For achiving that they built a façade which has a total area of 1492 m2 with the f+p system and using more than 33.000 different native plants.

This system allow the Palace of Congresses to reduce the energetic consumption adding a thermal resistance of 2,644 m2.K/W. This represents a 270% increase on the existing façade insulation.

The vertical garden system “f + p preplant” is made with a non woven fabric that distributes water over the facade. Planted rockwool panels are placed on the non woven fabric, this process warranties no stress for the plant and cold resistance.

Urbanarbolismo and Unusualgreen.

Among the surrounding species used for creating the new façade there are several typical wetlands in the area as Scirpoides holoschoenus, Cyperus longus, Carex mairii, Juncus maritimus, Juncus acutus, Cirsium monspessulanun, Tetragonolobus maritimus, Lysimachia ephemerum...

CREDITS.-

Project.- Urbanarbolismo and Unusualgreen.
Constructor.- Zikotz and Urbaser.
Budget.- 485.000 €.
Date.- May 2013 (started), November 2013 (finish).
System.- f+p preplant system.
Photography.- Quintas Fotografos, Jordi Serramia Ruiz, Hugo Riquelme Ortega.