Day 6: MFO Adventure!

Philipp and I took a trip out to green walls in Zü and MFO park today. Why adventure? Since we missed, turned around, and go back to the previously thought wring stops, and made many mistakes along the way of visiting these green sites Zurich.
(PS: I'm too lazy to edit the pics today, so here it is, as it is)


These are the green walls at Futurecom, an advertising company. We looked at how they use a thick plastic-based black fabric, which are stapled to the walls to contain the plant substrate. Above the wall is a length of mirror which creates the illusion that the wall is longer than it is (can you see me in its reflection?).


And here is the MFO park when we found it:


Looks like an overgrown, unfinished building structure on the outside, but when you enter its green space,


You feel like you're entering a big room, except, that this is still outside!


And you realize that this is a building that is not to be put in category of 'finished' or 'unfinished,' because its a living building!


Unlike normal park where you walk across it, with this one, you have to climb it up!


As years go by, the plants continue to grow and climb MFO's manmade surfaces. Here we have the giant Aristolochia plant forming the columns of MFO.


Architecture critics praised this building for challenging our conventional notion of the park (crisp manicured lawn and trees), and incorporate the 'urban' sense verticality into people's experience of the park.


Kinda looks like the Patrick Blanc's Quai Branly doesn't it?
Except that this system should be more robust and dynamic.
And below is the picture of the behind the scene support structure: