Urban Garden

Thursday 8 July, 2010
Author: Viva Rahwidhiyasa
Photographer: J. Ahkamul

The concept of residential houses in urban areas these days are generally less than the price higher and higher land and the growing consumer demand for housing in urban areas. As a solution, the concept of home is more horizontal, but more developed on the vertical. Therefore, the concept of building homes, additions greens are no longer available depending on horizontal sides, but rather in a vertical plane, including a balcony roof horizontally parallel, which was not used for reforestation. An example of this design innovation applied to the family of the CICA residential and Prima Baskoro in Depok, West Java, by Maria Luthfisani designed Arc Design of MLA. commonly referred to as Fivi.

House on two floors with an area of ​​300 m2 in this area, “green” not only on the first page, but also some construction Fasada vertical plane, on balconies and roof on the tent roof. The concept of a living wall, also applied to the rear garden and field walls on the second floor, which serves as a barrier soil. The focus of this idea to want green space begins with the owner to make any room in the house to the park. Given the narrowness of the site are available for the park, use the wish of the designers clearly the concept of the plant wall and roof garden.
For the living wall, designers use a module mounted on a frame of iron L is carried out to the fixed structure of the wall. Each module measures 40 cm x 40 cm and contains a point hole for the planting and culture medium with conventional systems. Irrigation is done through the irrigation system, semi-automatic. The condition is not direct sunlight, then the selected type of shade plants resistant species such as Philodendron, Scindapsus with accent colors of several species of bromeliads. Roof garden on a balcony used specially manufactured modular structures used for drainage. The advantages of this material is easy to apply with the locking system has greater durability and light weight so as not to add the roof.Soil layers, which are used in the roof, is as thick as 20 cm only a few plants that have the potential, as palms and frangipani disiasati increase the surface it seems to grow so classified.
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Design Living Wall and Roof Garden Design: Maria Luthfisani MP Design