Park Habitat
Renowned architect Kengo Kuma has envisioned a structure where people aren’t protected from the natural environment but sheltered by a harmonious fusion of nature and structure. Park Habitat will include a tree-studded rooftop park and multiple garden-like interior terraces, but it goes far beyond creating environmental oases. The entire building design has natural plant life woven throughout in ways that functionally serve to protect and enhance the health of both the building’s occupants and the greater environment. From trellised plant life draping the exterior of the building, increasing energy efficiency and providing tenants with a view of greenery from every window, to a massive, vertically oriented, interior courtyard garden, that works with the structure’s other mechanical systems to keep the building flush with natural light and fresh air, the incorporation of flora into the design goes beyond biophilic aesthetics and into new realms of environmentally performative functions within the building.
Habitat Horticulture was asked to join the project beginning with Schematic Design and working through Construction Documentation. Our expertise was sought to contribute to the design and engineering of the vertical vegetation which includes an unprecedented amount of living walls and vines incorporated into the building's facade.
We worked closely with the broad team of project consultants to integrate the living systems into the facade and spearheaded challenges that ranged from identifying plants best suited to the myriad of specific microclimates to determining how the maintenance and support systems for the building’s flora should be incorporated into the structure itself.
The functional nature of the plant life in the building coupled with the vast scale makes the maintenance of the plants and their support systems as challenging as it is critical. Soon, gardeners and horticultural technicians may be following the trail blazed by last century’s window was.
Renowned architect Kengo Kuma has envisioned a structure where people aren’t protected from the natural environment but sheltered by a harmonious fusion of nature and structure. Park Habitat will include a tree-studded rooftop park and multiple garden-like interior terraces, but it goes far beyond creating environmental oases. The entire building design has natural plant life woven throughout in ways that functionally serve to protect and enhance the health of both the building’s occupants and the greater environment. From trellised plant life draping the exterior of the building, increasing energy efficiency and providing tenants with a view of greenery from every window, to a massive, vertically oriented, interior courtyard garden, that works with the structure’s other mechanical systems to keep the building flush with natural light and fresh air, the incorporation of flora into the design goes beyond biophilic aesthetics and into new realms of environmentally performative functions within the building.
Habitat Horticulture was asked to join the project beginning with Schematic Design and working through Construction Documentation. Our expertise was sought to contribute to the design and engineering of the vertical vegetation which includes an unprecedented amount of living walls and vines incorporated into the building's facade.
We worked closely with the broad team of project consultants to integrate the living systems into the facade and spearheaded challenges that ranged from identifying plants best suited to the myriad of specific microclimates to determining how the maintenance and support systems for the building’s flora should be incorporated into the structure itself.
The functional nature of the plant life in the building coupled with the vast scale makes the maintenance of the plants and their support systems as challenging as it is critical. Soon, gardeners and horticultural technicians may be following the trail blazed by last century’s window was.
Renowned architect Kengo Kuma has envisioned a structure where people aren’t protected from the natural environment but sheltered by a harmonious fusion of nature and structure. Park Habitat will include a tree-studded rooftop park and multiple garden-like interior terraces, but it goes far beyond creating environmental oases. The entire building design has natural plant life woven throughout in ways that functionally serve to protect and enhance the health of both the building’s occupants and the greater environment. From trellised plant life draping the exterior of the building, increasing energy efficiency and providing tenants with a view of greenery from every window, to a massive, vertically oriented, interior courtyard garden, that works with the structure’s other mechanical systems to keep the building flush with natural light and fresh air, the incorporation of flora into the design goes beyond biophilic aesthetics and into new realms of environmentally performative functions within the building.
Habitat Horticulture was asked to join the project beginning with Schematic Design and working through Construction Documentation. Our expertise was sought to contribute to the design and engineering of the vertical vegetation which includes an unprecedented amount of living walls and vines incorporated into the building's facade.
We worked closely with the broad team of project consultants to integrate the living systems into the facade and spearheaded challenges that ranged from identifying plants best suited to the myriad of specific microclimates to determining how the maintenance and support systems for the building’s flora should be incorporated into the structure itself.
The functional nature of the plant life in the building coupled with the vast scale makes the maintenance of the plants and their support systems as challenging as it is critical. Soon, gardeners and horticultural technicians may be following the trail blazed by last century’s window was.
Renowned architect Kengo Kuma has envisioned a structure where people aren’t protected from the natural environment but sheltered by a harmonious fusion of nature and structure. Park Habitat will include a tree-studded rooftop park and multiple garden-like interior terraces, but it goes far beyond creating environmental oases. The entire building design has natural plant life woven throughout in ways that functionally serve to protect and enhance the health of both the building’s occupants and the greater environment. From trellised plant life draping the exterior of the building, increasing energy efficiency and providing tenants with a view of greenery from every window, to a massive, vertically oriented, interior courtyard garden, that works with the structure’s other mechanical systems to keep the building flush with natural light and fresh air, the incorporation of flora into the design goes beyond biophilic aesthetics and into new realms of environmentally performative functions within the building.
Habitat Horticulture was asked to join the project beginning with Schematic Design and working through Construction Documentation. Our expertise was sought to contribute to the design and engineering of the vertical vegetation which includes an unprecedented amount of living walls and vines incorporated into the building's facade.
We worked closely with the broad team of project consultants to integrate the living systems into the facade and spearheaded challenges that ranged from identifying plants best suited to the myriad of specific microclimates to determining how the maintenance and support systems for the building’s flora should be incorporated into the structure itself.
The functional nature of the plant life in the building coupled with the vast scale makes the maintenance of the plants and their support systems as challenging as it is critical. Soon, gardeners and horticultural technicians may be following the trail blazed by last century’s window was.
