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Summary
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More and more ecological urban development is (among others) looking for
space saving opportunities for plantations. For this facades of buildings in
residential - as well as industrial - areas can be covered with climbing
plants (creepers/vines).
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Above all the exploration of static questions is incomplete by now and the scientific research will take time furthermore.
Anyway it's possible to let climbing plants grow on every kind of facade. For good results it just needs considering their special characteristics.
If those plants require some kind of lattice, a corresponding construction is nessesary. In that case the technical most important features are "strategy of climbing", dimension, weight, thickness and possibly negative phototropism.
I think, I've done a great step with regard to reliable facade foliage with my development of a calculation for the maximum weights of climbing plants. Now it's easy for everyone to find out, which maximum weight a customary climbing plant will possibly reach.
Here you can find out dimensions and weigth of climbing plants/vines.
Neighter plants nor constructions should be used to cover up architecture, but both are able to give buildings more individual and ecological faces.
Discussing this special field in a foreign language is difficult. I’m living and working in Germany and even Germans don't always know the new and very special technical terms in german language. Even dictionairies don't help. But I hope you understand my possibly obscure translations and they are at least amusing :-).
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