AUSTRALIA’S TALLEST INDOOR LIVING WALL
20 Mar 2017
Melbourne’s Collins Square mixes business with pleasure, natural health and wellbeing with modern corporate success. With nearly 14,000 plants in the walls façade, head on down to gaze up into the leafy sky while you soak up the cool atmosphere.
Completed late 2016, the 59.2m high indoor living wall brings the Collins Square commercial tower to life. The wall currently holds the title of the largest and tallest indoor green wall in the Southern Hemisphere and was designed and installed by Fytogreen Australia.
Spanning from level 7 up to level 20 of the atrium area, this living wall, used approximately 13,890 plants to provide a range of benefits to the building and its occupants, the lucky inhabitants of Melbourne also have the opportunity to view the wall from a series of public retail facilities, restaurants and bars that fill the mixed-use space.
Over 16 species were used to provide a range of colours and textures, creating an amazing, lush, vista for the offices spanning the 14 levels. The indoor wall was designed to bring an aesthetic appeal to the space and allow the nature outdoors to transit within the closed space.
The 13,890 plants, a mix of natives and non-locals provide the added benefit of improved air quality, while the plants also work to reduce carbon dioxide levels and enrich oxygen levels throughout the commercial space.
The living wall also works to reduce indoor air temperature as the air the passes through and by the edges of the green wall modules is cooled by the water content of the living wall. This cooler air spreads to the lowest floor area and assists the buildings air-conditioning process. This cooling assistance feeds into the reducing of energy and CO2 as the energy system does not work as hard to cool the space.
Finally, Australia’s largest indoor living wall is reportedly acting as a fantastic noise and echo reduction process. The plants combined with Fytogreen’s hydroponic growing media reduces sound waves, creating a natural sound absorbing surface that allows the multi-use space to house a range of facilities that do not suffer from additional noise pollution.
The Collins Square green wall is reportedly thriving, and whilst the wall is valued as an ecologically sustainable green facility for the space, it also creates an impressive living landmark and healthy space for the Melbourne community.
