Experimental movable living Tillandsia plant screens for a building
The South China Morning Post base in Hong Kong are about to publish an article on the plant works in Melbourne these have been up since the beginning of Feb with no life support system at all (watering system etc and are thriving). The editor also wanted a shot of the experimental movable air plant screens I have at home. As I did not really have a good photo and the setting was not sympathetic, I took the curtain at the house added some more plants and set it up on a neighbors house a few km away. The house already had a screen system so it gives a great comparison to the plant screens. So after an hour or so it looked like this - the screens can be moved from the widow to the façade of the building. This is a prototype and they need more development but it gives a good idea of the concept. Of course the screens could easily be applied to a multilevel building.
Experimental movable living Tillandsia plant screens for a building
View from inside of experimental movable living Tillandsia plant screens - the plants offer shade but also allow light to enter and offer a sense of the outside.
An effective vertical garden wall screen of Tillandsias and Billbergias which requires on soil or reticulated watering system.
A prototype Tillandsia screen concealing building infrastructure in this example a spouting down pipe
A proto type movable sky light Tillandsia plant screens
Plants certainly lower temps - In Melbourne - experimental movable Tillandsia screens to mitigate heat - air temp 42C (107.6F) - iron roof 84.5C (184.1F) shade from plants 53.1C (127.58F) 31.4C (88.52F) reduction Reading Dec 2016 the summer they were installed. The plant screens are 200mm off the roof and never get watered and mainly rely on the dew, however, we did lose some plants to a hard frost. Still there and growing in 2023.
