results of a scholarship on green walls presented at my research centre

1. GREEN WALLS AND
TEXTILES
Maria BOSTENARU DAN

2. Overview
 Introduction
 Textile as architecture and landscape architecture
surface – typologies
 Application
 Conclusions

3. Textile as architecture and landscape
architecture surface - typologies
 Textile paradigm
 Deleuze
 Wand und Gewand (wall and cloth)
 Viollet-le-Duc (tectonica)
 Semper: Wand/Gewand
 John Ruskin
 Textile as support for plants
 On buildings
 In landscape
 tbc

4. Textile as support for plants
 On buildings
 Tapestry
 Living wall
 classifications
 Green facade/living wall
 Planter boxes/felt layers
 Modular/grid/planter/moss
 Biowall (interior) – our projects
 In landscape
 Garbage deposit (Rhine, Emscher)
 Ash dumps

5. Roof tiles inspired from carpets in the townhall of
Kiskunfélegyháza, Hungary, 1909. Photo: M. Bostenaru,
2006

6. Media projection on the façade of the Christmas Market
in Bucharest. Photo: M. Bostenaru, 2013

7. Caixa green wall in Madrid by night. Photo: M.
Bostenaru, 2014

8. Art Nouveau tapestry in an interior in Milan. Photo: M.
Bostenaru, 2011

9. Modell of the Rhine reintegration to the city of
Karlsruhe project. Photo: M. Bostenaru, 2006.

10. Application
 L Aquila – emergency architecture – pocket parks
on empty lots
 Climate change – Imre Makovecz (inclined surfaces
/ sod roofs)
 Patterns through geotextiles

11. Green dome by Imre Makovecz in Visegrad. Modell in
the 2014 exhibition at the opening of Vigadó. Photo: M.
Bostenaru, 2014

12. Conclusions
 Green walls, natural and artificial – ornament
 Metaphor of carpet
 19th century > 20th century
 Weaving as basis for growing > Deleuze
 Tested applicability for emergency housing

13. Acknowledgements
 DOMUS Scholarship, Robert Kabai, Corvinus
University Budapest

14. Vă mulţumesc!