AUTHORS: Nerantzia Tzortzi, Joanna Sophocleous

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ABSTRACT: Urbanization causes an enormous impact on the environment which leads to an urban jungle, a concrete chaos, substituting forests and decreasing natural vegetation. An innovating and efficient way of ‘attacking’ issues of urban life, which have been also embraced by other developed countries, is the implementation of Vertical gardens as a Natural Based Solution. Therefore, in this paper, Vertical gardens were analyzed and assessed thoroughly, to acquire a general perspective of their functions, abilities, operations, benefits and risks, impacts and the process behind how they offer a higher quality of living. Furthermore, all of these aspects were analyzed in regard to the city of Limassol, Cyprus. The suggested implementation in Limassol will be conducted, discovering the bare facades within the area and analyzing their quantitative characteristics. The proposal for implementation will be introduced, along with the main design idea, the analysis and the imprinting of the application. This paper pursues to offer alternatives to building designers as well as to the city planners in order to increase the green spaces in to the urban environment.

KEYWORDS: Vertical garden, living wall, green facade, landscape walls, urban area, sustainability, modular system, urban vegetation

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