China’s First Vertical Forest Is Rising In Nanjing
China’s First Vertical Forest Is Rising In Nanjing
02/04/2017 By Lacy Cooke Read More: http://inhabitat.com/chinas-first-ve...ng-in-nanjing/ Quote:
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i dk if i would call it a true vertical forest, thats quite the hype. its just a couple bldgs with somewhat more than typical plantings. it could be a good thing, at least until some storm blows something off of it and injures somebody.
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I can't even imagine what maintenance on those buildings would be like 50 years from now ...
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I know a fair bit about forests from restoration work. What forests do to store carbon is to produce a lot of soil. Twigs, branches, leaves, they build up and compress and compost.
Where is that supposed to happen in this vertical arangement? The litter will be cleaned up and put where? There's a factor callled green waste, where lawn maintainence waste creates a bunch of methane as it rots. And doesn't form soil. So there are important details. |
Ideally it would be transported to an off-site facility, as is generally the case with similar rooftop gardens (at least from my experience). I have no idea whether Nanjing has such facilities, but I'm sure there would be demand for fresh, uncontaminated compost in such a large city.
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I heard that the plants and shrubs will cover 65,000 square feet of the buildings area. That's amazing.
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Here, whatever drops from those buildings would just join the stream. But I agree--there's a lot of manhours and cost there in maintenance, both of the greenery and of the underlying structure. Locally sourced, organic grapes anyone? |
Idk seems more hype and a marketing gimmick, especially in China. Travel there enough to be concerned about how it's going to built and maintained and put a bet of when it all deteriorates.
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