The first person in the world to make 300 plant wall landscapes in 40 years

Plant walls are common to us now, and my friends and I often receive some projects about plant walls and plant landscapes, but today's elder can be said to be the first person in the world.

Patrick Blanc, who is in his sixties, has slightly sparse green hair, a green-and-black flower shirt, a ring like green turf on his ring finger and dark green stockings on his feet.

Patrick? Bronx (Patrick Blanc)

Botanist, creator of vertical garden

Educational background

Third year Ph.D., University of Pierre and Marie Curie, University of Paris 6

Doctor of Science, University of Pierre and Marie Curie, Paris six

Work location

Since 1982, scientists at the French National Research Center

Win an award

Honorary member of the Royal Institute of Architects in 2010

One of the 50 best inventions of time magazine in 2009

Silver Award of the School of Architecture in 2005

The order of the Knight of Literature and Art 2005

In 2001, his first large-scale vertical greening was built at the Pershing Hall Hotel in Paris. From now on, Patrick? Blanck is famous for its "king of vertical greening". In 2009, his concept of vertical greening appeared on time magazine's annual list of the world's top 50 inventions, which attracted worldwide attention. So far, he has designed more than 300 vertical gardens around the world. Some are located indoors and some are outdoor, covering museums, office spaces, boutiques, apartments, hotels and exhibition spaces. Its

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A frank big boy who loves plants more than life.

Frank | Green hair and floral shirt

The biggest symbol of Patrick Blanc is his green hair. I have dyed green hair since 1985, and since my plant wall has become famous, my green hair has become some kind of symbol.

"I'm glad to find these interesting and cheap shirts with wild flowers and patterns on them."

Love | love plants as much as life

When Patrick Blanc, born in 1953, got his first aquarium at the age of 7, he had a natural sense of closeness to plants. He knew that plants should be used to purify water, and he would also take the initiative to study them. This is a way of enlightenment for his later research and vertical greening of plants. From then on, he was inextricably linked with plants for the rest of his life.

Since he traveled to Southeast Asia in 1972 and came into contact with flowers and plants in the tropical rain forest, he has continued to travel around the world and do research in various forests. He has collected tens of thousands of plant specimens over the past 30 years.

When others were interested in the color of his skin, he said, "I am more interested in plant life than studying my family."

Responsibility | seek the way of harmony between city and nature

How to solve the problems related to human beings in modern life is the motivation behind Patrick Blanc's creation.

"I think now that about half of the people in the world, that is, about 3 billion people, live in cities, we have less and less contact with the land, and now because of the fear of rising global temperatures and influenza A, and because of the gradual increase in urban population, people are very interested in how to live vertically in harmony with nature. The plant wall is about breathing. It provides some optimistic information. This is a very important proof that human beings have not destroyed everything and that we can still create things in a positive way. The plant wall not only makes people want to take pictures, but also brings a feeling of happiness; we even see birds building nests on the plant wall. "

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Selection of Patrick Blanc's works

Work distribution map

One Central Park

This is a recent collaboration between Blanc and Jean Nouvel. The world's largest vertical garden covers the surface of the building, and it is also the tallest vertical garden ever built by Patrick Blanc. The more than 250 Australian plants and flowers installed on the exterior walls grow and climb the building from the ground floor to the top, making the building the green tree of this new century. And redefine the Sydney skyline, this 64000-square-meter project is as quiet as New York's Central Park in the lush. And let the green visual sense extend to the central park with 6400 square meters on one side. Lush trees, open lawns and swimming pools are great places to relax with family and friends.

Bangkok landmark EmQuartier atrium

In Bangkok's EmQuartier Mall, layers of surrounding green plants pour down from the heights, like green plant waterfalls and spiral stairs.

Ibiza Life Wharf

The second District of Paris, France

Blanc turns the ordinary building facade into a gorgeous green space. This is what he firmly believes that nature can greatly improve the quality of urban space.

The vertical garden has 237 species of plants and is arranged in a diagonal-like pattern, creating a unique sense of vitality and movement.

The project is also an excellent demonstration of the conceptual evolution of Blanc's work: from a preliminary geometric pattern to a checkerboard pattern, in which each plant is carefully arranged in a specific location.

CaixaForum Museum

The CaixaForum Museum in Madrid, Spain has become a new local cultural and artistic landmark. Everyone who visits the CaixaForum Museum in Madrid can not help but be attracted by the huge plant "mural" standing next to the square. The 24-meter-high 460-square-meter giant "mural" consists of more than 15000 species of plants. Different from the traditional vertical greening in the past, the main structure of this giant "mural" is only a little more than 5cm, and this thickness is the limit that other existing vertical greening techniques can achieve. Many people have doubts about the authenticity of plants, and it is hard for many people to believe that such a thin structure can carry such a large number of plants and flowers.

Quai Branly Museum

Blanc is best known for his Quai Branly Museum, which opened in Paris in June 2006. This is a project he collaborated with Jean Nouvel to skillfully integrate nature with architecture through the art of environmental installation made of plants.

The museum's office is also equipped with a series of smaller plant walls.

Marcos Juvena Bridge

PAMM P é rez Museum of Art

At the PAMM P é rez Art Museum, Blanc is required to design and build a three-dimensional vertical garden instead of a two-dimensional one. Blanc's solution is to create an array of "columns" consisting of suspended or self-supporting steel pipes wrapped in blankets with hundreds of small pockets. The plants grow on the felt as usual, but Blanc has to choose them carefully because half of the pillars are exposed to sunlight, strong wind and salt fog, while the other half are in the shadows, so he uses a total of 80 different plant species, basically tropical and native, for both inside and outside. Drip irrigation for vertical garden pillars is provided by the building's large roof Rain Water collection system.

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Patrick Blanc Studio

During Blanc's long career, he designed hundreds of Vertical Garden. At the same time, he worked with Gilles Ebersolt to build a plant home of his own on the outskirts of Paris. From the outside, the house is no different, but as soon as you walk in, you will enter a whole new world. Almost all the walls of the house are covered with moss, ferns and leaves of different shapes and sizes. If you look down from Blanc's desk, you can see the reflection of fish, turtles, aquatic plants and tropical birds flying in the sky.

Blanc says he hasn't done any special interior design for his home. All he's doing is building a complex ecosystem: plants, fish and water, which is the only thing he loves. "We live in an era where people are under all kinds of pressure," he said. I think man and nature can be more harmonious. When people see the plant wall in the subway, they become more sensitive, and its function is far more than those in the garden. "

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Patrick Blanc creates sketches

Why have all the vertical gardens I created had a great impact no matter how different the country or situation they are in? Maybe it's just because everyone standing in front of them, regardless of their age, gender, cultural background and social status, can create a sense of vastness that is rare in a noisy city. The impression of a vertical garden is by no means as simple as "vertical arrangement of plants". I believe that the wide variety of plants and the natural patterns shown by the special arrangement of these plants are the real reasons why vertical gardens are so popular.