Fünf Höfe Hanging Garden

The hanging garden at Salvatore Passage of Fünf Höfe is my favorite project from Indoorlandscaping, the office that I have been working for in the past month. The project was finished in 2002 with architects Herzog de Meuron, and seven years on, the plants are still looking healthy and gorgeous... here they are:




Set in a trendy shopping arcade (Armani, Zegna, D&G, Zara, etc.), this garden makes a reference to the mythical Hanging Gardens of the Babylon, the city of luxury of 600BC. But unlike the ever-perfect mythical gardens, this one is real and it drops leaf litters everyday, and hence require a lot of cleaning and care.


The plants hangs gently onto a chain, as it climbs down from fifth floor to the second floor... a height of over 10 meters long!


Above is the stunning view of the garden from the café on the second floor. The bright lights wakes up the plant everyday, and makes sure that the plant gets enough light to photosynthesize and grow. Below is the view from the fifth floor where the pots for the hanging garden sat on. These pots are irrigated hydroponically and there's almost 200 of these climber pots, comprising of six species, including Scindapsus, Passiflora, Tetrastigma and Philodendron. The white tabletop-like umbrella on them is used to shade them from too much sunlight.


This last picture was taken on a different day (my last noon in Munich in fact), hence the brighter daylighting.