25-10-2023.
This xeric Tillandsia (airplant) screen has now been installed 10 levels up on CH2 Building for over 6 months.
The plants on the screen require No water or fertilizer with the plants using their evolved biology to grow and best of all 100% no plastic! This is a sustainable model for creating shade from the summer sun without using shade sails made from plastic that shed plastic microfibers.
So how does it stack up?
• Maintenance visits 0
• Maintenance cost 0
• Water usage 0
• Fertilizer usage 0
• Replacement plants 0
• Energy usage 0
• Escaped plastic microfibers 0
• Weed species 0
• Pesticides used 0
• Enjoyment from staff – immeasurable
To photograph the time-lapse sequence, as an ecological artist, it was such a pleasure to spend 6 hours in the space where this living plant work is installed and observe the nuances of time on the way light and weather affected the Tillandsia plant screens.
The screen was designed and installed by
Lloyd Godman
Studio LAB xeric
Join local ecological artist Lloyd Godman for a fascinating talk on how to create beautiful, low maintenance green urban spaces without a watering system, fertilizer or plastic. Lloyd is an artist who has developed plant sculptures, walls and greenery for many projects around Melbourne.
Green walls and roof gardens are becoming increasingly popular in our built up urban environments as we recognise the benefits of plants and greenery for our health and wellbeing. So come along to learn more about how we can green our local environment.
This has been a great deal of work over years - but if you want to learn about the intricacies of integrating plants into architecture. With 789 photographs and 89 diagrams, where 65 projects are presented, the ebook will raise many questions and offer some answers. this 382-page ebook will offer many answers.
How plants Can work together to create much-needed city Shade -
By Megan Backhouse
Talk: 14 June 2023
Just a reminder that I will be speaking next Wednesday night 7pm at Wadambuk St Andrews for Yarra Plenty Regional Library. For the talk I not be using a power point, but will be speaking from the new Plants and Architecture ebook which I have nearly finished. The book has 330 spreads and is hyperlinked with many examples, illustrations and photographs of the issues of integrating plants into architecture. Love to see you there. So you get a sneak preview.
The building was built by Hansen Yuncken and was Australia’s first building to be awarded a six star green star design rating and was officially opened in August 2006. While previous planting failed to establish on this screen we tested some Tillandsias and eventually completed this full screen. Notice the raven nest on the far right.
The xeric screens are installed with NO watering system with the plants relying entirely on their evolved biology. The installation is also 100% plastic free!
EVENT
TILLANDSIA DAY 2022
SUNDAY 20 NOVEMBER - KEDRON WAVELL SERVICES CLUB
Bookings remain open for the Tillandsia day for 2022. This will be a full day of presentations, Q&A, and plant sales. Sessions commence 8:30 am and run till 5pm.
Registration cost is $40 which includes Lunch and morning tea. Follow this link for ticket purchase -https://www.trybooking.com/BZCWS
Remember there are limited places available.
Keynote speakers will be:
Pam Koide-Hyatt. Principal of Bird Rock Tropicals based in California. Pam has a huge knowledge of Tillandsias through travels in central and South America, and extensive hybridisation.
George Stamatis – of Elimbah Tropicals. George has one of the largest bromeliad nurseries and has a reputation for supplying collectable Tillandsias and creating his own hybrids.
Lloyd Godman will present on Tillandsias in Art and Architecture. Lloyd has been using Tillandsias in sculptural pieces in Victoria for many years. More recently Lloyd has conducted experiments on the growing of Tillandsias in extreme conditions on buildings around Melbourne.
There will be information for all levels of enthusiast – beginners to experienced- in other presentations and Q&A panels including well known Australian growers.
Hope to see you there!
Photo Tillandsia Day 2018
Lecture (COMPLETE)
Lloyd has been invited to give a talk to Bachelor of Applied Architecture students at Melbourne Polytechnic on Plants and Architecture Hydric and Xeric systems
October 6th
12;00 noon. Epping Campus
EVENT (COMPLETE)
1 September 2022
Inhabit - Rescheduled - event is now Thu., 1 September 2022 -
ColLab #event6 will take place at Level 7 Podium, 530 Collins Street, Melbourne. Please use the north lifts to access the offices.
About this event
Bringing Green Space to Our Buildings
Inhabit welcomes you to Event #6 in the colLab series. Is integrating trees and planting into architecture just a passing fad or the answer to urban heating?
Challenge yourself through Inhabit's immersive experience exploring the concept of "dead pixels" in our cities. This will be followed by a conversation with our panel who will share their experiences creating and implementing biophilic designs.
Join
Lloyd Godman | Ecological artist
Geoff Heard | Managing Director, Fytogreen
Wayne Sanderson | Regional Director | Australia + New Zealand, Inhabit
and Moderator Elissa Stirling, Regional Manager | Victoria, Inhabit.
Light refreshments will be provided.
PROJECT - (COMPLETE)
Confirmed 9th Aug 2022 Xeric Tillandsia plant screen for CH2 Building
December 2015, as part of the Tillandsia SWARM ecological project we mounted some experimental Tillandsias at the top of CH2 building and they have survived and grown since. We now have to all go to cover a section of the building with a larger screen of Tillandsias. More news as the project progresses.
22nd July 2022 - ARCHTECH 314 - Guest (zoom) Lecture at University of Auckland
Alessandro Premier invited me to give a lecture to architecture students on the critical comparisons between xeric and hydric gardens systems on buildings. I did a lot more research and finally complied a informative PDF using many of the photographs of these systems that date back well over a decade..
Technology worked and the lecture was well received.
Exhibition
3 Aug 2022 - CABLE is an experimental space facilitating interdisciplinary conversations on the city through public exhibitions and events.If you need to know further about us, kindly visit our website here: https://citycable.cn/.
We are planning a series of online exhibitions called "Mirror" , which started during the epidemic. We hope that more people can use the Internet platform to gain different perspectives to pay attention to all that is happening in the urban space.Our second mini online exhibition "Mirror" (non-profit) will be including the topic of an intimate narrative between plants and the city.The curatorial inspiration comes from the fifteenth chapter "Rain and Leaves" in the classic literary work "Marcovaldo" by Italo Calvino, which describes the soul dialogue between natural plants and people living in cities.
At the same time, we found it moving to see your installation "Airborne project " as it logically and critically reminds our viewers of the constant communication between urban elements and nature. It fits perfectly with the theme of our online exhibition. We plan to show up to five pictures on the CABLE online platform about your work "Airborne project" from your personal website, this way to introduce your art installation to our audience. We were wondering if we might be able to receive your authorization ? Yes - CABLE is a great initiative.
This is the work included in the exhibition.
More on this later
Pod cast Interview with James Valentine
Life's Booming Pod cast 24 March 2022
Radio nterview
From Radio New Zeland - First Up, 5:33 am on 25 February 2021
