The major project is setting new standards in climate protection and urban planning. The hornbeam is a wonderfully rewarding plant. Robust and non-poisonous, it grows quickly into thick hedges. In other words: eight kilometres of hornbeam hedges that will keep the air clean and temperatures down.
The urban green miracle was designed by ingenhoven architects. After all, the hornbeam hedges have the same climate effect as 80 full-grown deciduous trees. This idea has spawned spectacular results in other parts of the world too. Or in London, where Sheppard Robson is planning a new luxury hotel covered in plants. The positive effects of the giant hornbeam hedges on the inner-city climate are plain to see. Here, the plants act as a buffer against heat, stopping temperatures around the new complex from rising.
In addition, the greening acts as an ongoing energy converter. An irrigation system provides the hornbeam hedges with the water and nutrients it requires at any given time of the year. The plants themselves release moisture into the air through their leaves, resulting in a cooling effect. And, to cap it all, their leaves bind fine dust, absorb CO 2 and produce oxygen.
The kind of ecological benefits that are otherwise only provided by clusters of mature deciduous trees. We have spent a long time examining in great detail which facade greening is the best. Scientific expertise for the green project was provided by Beuth University of Applied Sciences.
As resident phytotechnologist Prof. Several years of studies yielded extensive findings about how plants grow in this special system β and about their exact needs and ecophysiological performance. So the building is a significant energy converter. According to Prof. Strauch, almost half of the solar energy is converted to water vapour by the plants. In an area dominated by an elevated motorway until This means that the new building will be light green in the spring and darker in the summer.
