Patrick Blanc (born June 3, 1953 in Paris) is a botanist, working at the French National Centre for Scientific Research, where he specializes in plants from subtropical forests. He invented the concept of a vertical garden:
“ On a load-bearing wall or structure is placed a metal frame that supports a PVC plate 10 millimetres (0.39 in) thick, on which are stapled two layers of polyamide felt each 3 millimetres (0.12 in) thick. These layers mimic cliff-growing mosses and are support the roots of many plants. A network of pipes controlled by valves provides a nutrient solution containing dissolved minerals needed for plant growth. The felt is soaked by capillary action with this nutrient solution, which flows down the wall by gravity. The roots of the plants take up the nutrients they need, and excess water is collected at the bottom of the wall by a gutter before being re-injected into the network of pipes: the system works in a closed circuit. Plants are chosen for their ability to grow on this type of environment and depending on available light.
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This type of achievement shows his ideas as an ecological engineer and the 15th target of the Haute Qualité Environnementale ("High Quality Environment"), though the latter encourages the use of more local species, at least outdoors.
Works
Cartier Foundation for Contemporary Art, in Paris 1997.
Pershing Hall hotel, courtyard, in Paris in 2001.
Marithé & François Girbaud boutique in Manhattan.
Siam Paragon shopping center in Bangkok.
21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art in Kanazawa, Japan.
Quai Branly Museum in Paris, 2006.
BVH, outside wall of a Paris department store.
Galeries Lafayette[1], Berlin Friedrichstraße, 2008.
Melbourne Central in Melbourne, Australia, 2008
Ronald Lu & Partners' Green Wall in Hong Kong, 2010
[edit] Some achievements
1988 : First green wall, made at the Museum of Science and Industry in Paris
1994 : Garden Festival of Chaumont-sur-Loire
1998 : Green wall at the Fondation Cartier in Paris
2000 : Green wall at the Aquarium in Genoa, Italy
2001 : Green wall at the Perhsing Hall Hotel in Paris
2003 : Wall of the French Embassy in New Delhi
2004 : Administrative building of the Quai Branly Museum (a museum of indigenous arts) in Paris
2005 : North face of the shopping centre in Avignon
2005 : Vinet Square in Bordeaux (with Michel Desvigne)
2006 : Wall in the Weleda, 8th arrondissement of Paris
2007 : Wall on the shop BHV Hommes (BHV for men), 4th arrondissement of Paris
2007 : Green wall at CaixaForum Madrid
2008 : Arch at the roundabout at the Grand Theatre of Provence at Aix-en-Provence
2008 : Green wall at Galeria Przymorze, shopping centre in Gdańsk, Poland[1]
[edit] Bibliography
1990: Biologie d'une canopée de forêt équatoriale : rapport de Mission Radeau des cimes, octobre-novembre 1989, Petit Saut, - Guyane française, ("Biology under an equatorial forest: report of Study Radeus, Octover-November 1989, French Guyana, a collective study under the direction of Francis Hallé et Patrick Blanc, Departement of Industry and xylochemistry
2002 : Être plante à l'ombre des forêts tropicales ("Putting plants in the light of tropical forests"), Éditions Nathan
2005 : Le bonheur d'être plante, ("The pleasure of being a plant"), Éditions Maren Sell (ISBN 2-350-04018-6)
2007 : Folies végétales ("Plants' follies"), (lecture, Paris), éditions Chêne
2008 : Le Mur Végétal, de la nature à la ville ("The green wall in town and country"), éditions Michel Lafon
Patrick Blanc sus jardines
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