SRS Green Facades | Screens

Improved Air Quality
Plants are the lungs of the planet. They reduce CO2 and VOC’s (Volatile Organic Compounds) while enriching the air with O2. Plants also absorb particulate matter that comes with urban smog thus cleansing the urban air and making cities more liveable.

By increasing the number of plants in an urban landscape helps to reduce the effects of air pollution and smog. Green walls do this with the added convenience of taking up no commercial foot space.

Support Local Ecosystem and Biodiversity
Having gardens on buildings acts as an ecosystem that attracts fauna to the urban space creating a natural urban ecology. This increases biodiversity in the area and helps urban farming practices such as honey production.

A great example of this is in Singapore, an early adopter of utilising gardens on the built structure, to mitigate effects of intense urbanisation. Once a heavily polluted city in the 1960s, Singapore has been remarkably transformed with its revitalising of local biodiversity due to initiatives such as the Tree House Condominium – one of the largest green facades in the world. Another green infrastructure option is a roof garden. One of their main benefits is they absorb rainwater and then when saturated, slowly dispense the excess water into the civil stormwater system.

This has 2 effects:

1. Reduces the demand on civil infrastructure during rain events
2. Reduces the amount of runoff of stormwater into our waterways and marine ecologies.

Reduce Noise Pollution
Green facades and indoor green screens provide sound dampening by reducing echo and absorbing noise. The effect is creating a better environment to work in, so as to increase productivity and live in, by increasing a sense of well-being. Indoor green screens can be seen on both sides and often allow dappled light to filter through the foliage. The effect is providing a wall of vines with 2 sides being viewed while providing zoned spaces within an open plan office.

Sense Of Wellbeing
Multiple psychological studies show that the presence of plants in rooms improves morale of the occupants, which is a great positive effect for collective wellbeing within the building be it office, home or recreational space.