The main types are where plants grow in planter boxes or in a lightweight type of soil attached to a wall.
Green roofs and walls australia.
Australia is beginning to realise the potential of green roofs and green walls to assist in reducing the impacts of increased temperatures intense rainfall habitat loss poor air quality and increased energy use in cities.
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There is a huge variety of green wall or vertical garden designs.
Australia completed 2010.
Earth sheltered houses have green roofs by design and anyone who has grown climbers across a vertical trellis has had some experience in creating green walls.
Australia completed 2017.
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The roof is partially or completely covered with a waterproof layer or planter style boxes soil or similar and plants.
The growing interest in green roof and wall construction has been encouraged by the increasing availability of technologies that make their construction easier and more economical.