Vegetecture

Vegetated architecture – building design that incorporates vegetation as an integral element of construction.

Observing that in urban areas “sometimes the only way to build is up,” Dornob magazine commented:

And with a movement to grow more food locally and to add more green to our urban environments so too has grown the impulse to build skyscraper farms, solar tower parks and other unique and uncanny forms of vertical vegetecture. …

Dornob noted the ubiquity of green roofs and green walls in contemporary architectural designs and stated:

Subsequent ideas for building up and green have further integrated greenery into the very function of buildings, from pragmatic passive cooling and filtering systems to organic forms that reflect the function of these hybrid structures.

Malaysian architect Ken Yeang is considered a leading propenent ofvegetecture (or veg.itecture). According to the blog Landscape and Urbanism: “Yeang epitomizes the concept, perhaps stronger than any current architect.”

See also: Verdant Cladding.