Vertical Grounds

Vertical Grounds is a research project exploring the future of urban green infrastructure, integrated bio-materials, robotic extrusion and living architecture.

Inspired by the living bridges in northern India, Vertical Grounds creates a continuous network of hollow cork forms that are filled with fertile low-nutrient media, promoting the growth of healthy root networks and microbial networks.  

The system is envisioned as a porous and versatile architectural lattice, akin to Buckminster Fuller’s space frame constructions. 

This is not a wall, it is an explicit and additional ecological layer to the typical wall system, bringing new qualities to urban architecture.