One of the highlights of my trip to Zurich, Switzerland, was MFO Park at the Neu-Oerlikon District, an industrial area transformed with residential housing, schools and offices. The park sits among the newest buildings, and it’s a building in its own right: A steel construction functions as an armature for climbing plants. I first learned about the project. It was completed five years earlier that, and photos show plants just starting up their voyage the arrangement. Half a decade later, the green has engulfed the gray, making for a fabulous atmosphere for citizens and employees in the region.
This ideabook tours the playground, made by Burckhardt + Partner and Raderschall Landschaftsarchitekten. With vertical gardens gaining popularity in residential layout, could it be offer inspiration for creating your own dwelling wall in your home?
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MFO Park covers a rectangular plot of land. It’s available on both sides, and the other three sides include stairs and walkways for traversing the structure. The whole is covered by a space framework that will someday be covered by vines like a lot of the remainder of the construction.
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The majority of the region below the roof is just sand, more a walkway than a place for hanging out. Seating is grouped beneath multistory regions on the side and near the regions where the plants climb, which makes sense, as these are where the color is.
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The structural framework meets with the floor via columns and diagonal bracing. These points are where the crops begin their climb. Given the roughly five-story height of the construction, the designers helped the plants with a raised trench, visible here in which the plants are hanging down.
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One of the nicest touches is the incorporation of lookouts, which inspire people to trek up through the green arrangement and sit — habit seats occupy the couple lookouts.
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A group of splayed columns — made up of many diagonal members to the plants — is also a distinctive feature. The columns anchor end of the park by creating a density of green.
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The bunch of columns is visible from a elevated walkway near the open end of the strategy.
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Another view of the bunch of green columns — appearing from the opposite direction in the preceding photo — shows a Pac-Man-shape pool beneath. Note the numerous seats that are observed in this portion of the park.
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With the success of the climbing plants on the construction (thanks to irrigation as well as layout, it needs to be mentioned), the multipurpose structures on both sides feel burnt; they become spaces characterized by the green “walls” The overhead plane on the right is not another walkway; it’s the raised trench mentioned earlier.
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Here is a close-up of among those soil-filled elevated trenches, which includes a gangway for maintenance accessibility on the best.
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The density of the green walls is evident in this view of the closed-off end of the park. I really like the play of shadows out of the roofing on the crops.
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This last view of the park is in the patio that in fact projects over the roof. This patio includes custom seats shaped for lounging and sunning. From here we can see the very top of the columns as well as the wires that will be someday be covered in green.
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