Vertical Gardens in High-Rise Buildings – Modern Form of Green Building Technology

This paper presents the analysis of vertical gardens in selected high-rise buildings located on different continents as an example of the most popular greenery system in contemporary architecture. High-rise buildings designed in the form of vertical garden, use the urban space more effectively and at the same time create a friendlier environment for their residents. In developing large metropolises, these buildings constitute a very important element in design which compensates for the lack of green areas. The first vertical gardens in the form of a system of green walls in buildings were created in the late 30s of the twentieth century. Their inventor was Stanley Hart White. However, a professor of Landscape Architecture at the University of Illinois. However, in tall buildings, these gardens were begun by Patric Blanc in 1994, and then continued by Stefan Boeri. With the development of green wall technology, two general systems have appeared: green walls and living walls. Many of the studies conducted in the world have shown significant environmental and social benefits from the use of vertical gardens in high-rise buildings, despite their significant economic costs. In the presented paper, the green wall system has been characterized on the example of some high-rise buildings, pointing at the determination of benefits from their occurrence in the urban scale as well in the scale of the building.