CONTENTS Preface 8 Introduction 10 SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS Launch Introduction 14 Multi-Tiered Vine Park MFO Park, Zurich, Switzerland Raderschall Landschaftsarchitekten AG + Burckhardt & Pa/trier AG 16 Misting Vine Pergola Parque de Diagonal Mar, Barcelona, Spain Enric Miralles Benedetta Tagliabue, EMBT Arquitectes Associates 22 Wind Adapted Road Canopy Structure Palio de Bougainvilleas, San Juan, Puerto Rico West 8 26 Fire-Escape Ecosystem Vertical Garden, London, U.K. GROSS.MAX + MarkDion 30 Parasitic Vegetal Structure MAK t6 VACANT, The MAK Center and SCI-Arc, Los Angeles, CA, USA David Fletcher + Juan Azulay 34 Stratify Introduction 36 Mechanically Stabilized Landform Olympic Sculpture Park, Seattle, WA, USA ! Weiss/Manfredi Architects 38 Floating Grass Plain Wonder Holland, Dutch Embassy, Rome, Italy i Wests 42 Multi-Operational Modular Surface The High Line, Section I, New York, NY, USA Field Operations 44 Gradient of Resilience Safe Zone, Reford Gardens, Grand-Metis, Quebec, Canada StoSS Landscape Urbanism 48 Surface Inversion Maritime Youth House, Sundby Harbour, Copenhagen, Denmark ! PLOT=BIG+JDS 52 Fluid Introduction 56 Weaving Porous and Nonporous Surfaces Allianz Arena Munich Stadium, Munich, Germany ; Vogt Landschaftsarchitekten + Herzog & de Meuron 58 Inflatable Dam System Environmental Restoration of Besos River, Barcelona, Spain Barcelona Regional Agenda Metropolitana de Desenvolupament Urbanistic i d'tnfraestructures S.A. 62 Stormwater Garden Blackstone Power Plant Renovation, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA ; Landworks Studio, Inc. 64 Drop Structures for Suburban Stormwater System Shop Creek, Aurora, CO, USA Wenk Associates, Inc. + Mueller Engineering, Inc. + Black & Veatch 68 Networked Sidewalk Stormwater System i SW 12th Avenue Green Street Project, Portland, OR, USA ; Portland Bureau of Environmental Services 70 Biotechnical Wave & Erosion Control Structures Delta In-Channel Islands, Sacramento-San Joaquin River, San Francisco Bay, CA, USA MBK Engineers + Kjeldsen Biological Consulting + LSA Associates, Inc. 72 Grooming Introduction 76 Tree Crutches Growing Guides Courtyard Garden, University Library, Universiteit Utrecht, Holland West 8 78 Hedge-Trimming Armature Shoulder Hedge,The Lurie Garden, Millennium Park, Chicago, IL, USA Gustafson Guthrie Nichol Ltd. + Piet Oudolf + Robert Israel 80 Artificial Winter Climate for a Bamboo Garden Hybridized Hydrologies, Erie Street Plaza, Milwaukee, Wl, USA StoSS Landscape Urbanism 84 Saltwater Herbicide System Marsh Planters, East River Ferry Landings, New York, NY, USA Ken Smith Landscape Architect 88 Low-Maintenance Perennial Plantings Riem Landscape Park, Munich, Germany ; LUZ Landschaftsarchitekten 92 Stunted Growth Pattern Elsassertor office building, Basel, Switzerland Vogt Landschaftsarchitekten + Herzog & de Meuron 96 Digestive Introduction 100 Bio-Remediation Park Design Former British Petroleum Park, Sydney, Australia McGregor+Partners 102 Fluvially Integrated Effluent Wetlands Environmental Restoration of Besos River, Barcelona, Spain Barcelona Regional Agenda Metropolitana de Desenvolupament Urbanistic d'lnfraestructures S.A. 106 Water-Cleansing Biotope DaimlerChrysler Plaza, Potsdamer Platz, Berlin, Germany Atelier Dreiseitl 110 On-Site Sewage Treatment System Sidwell Friends School, Washington, D.C., USA Andropogon Associates + Kieran Timberlake Associates + Natural Systems International 112 Ground Reconstitution Strategy Urban Outfitters Navy Yard Headquarters, Philadelphia, PA, USA D.I.R.T. studio 114 Strategic Contaminated Soil Placement Cuttuurpark Westergasfabriek, Amsterdam, Holland Gustafson Porter 118 Translate Introduction 122 Pneumatic Body Ephemeral Structures, Olympic Games, Athens, Greece i ONL [Oosterhuis Lenard] 124 Powered by Wind, the Ground is a Turntable Courtyard In the Wind, Buildings Department Administration Building, ; Munich, Germany Acconci Studio + Wolfgang Hermann Niemeyer 128 Weather Informed Park Access System Environmental Restoration of Besos River, Barcelona, Spain Barcelona Regional Agenda Metropolitana de Desenvolupament Urbanfstic d'lnfraestructures S.A. 130 Fiber Optic Marsh Field's Point, Providence, Rl, USA Abby Feldman, Harvard University, Graduate School of Design 132 Volatile Introduction 134 Responsive Cloud Machine Harvey Milk Memorial, San Francisco, CA, USA Christian Werthmann & LOMA architecture.landscape.urbanism 136 Computer Animated Rain Pitterpatterns, Stadt.haus, Scharnhauser Park, Stuttgart, Germany J. MAYER H. Architekten 138 Dynamic Thermal Wind Wall Wind Veil, Mesa Arts Center, Mesa, AZ, USA and Technorama Facade, Winterthur, Switzerland by Ned Kahn 142 Impression of Rain Weather Garden, The Park Hyatt Hotel, Zurich, Switzerland ; Vogt Landschaftsarchitekten + Meili, Peter Architekten 146 PRODUCTS AND TECHNOLOGIES G-Sky Green Wall Panels: Modular Vertical Planting Systems 150 Earth Cinch: Biodegradable Growth System 151 Flexterra & Soil Guard: Flexible Growth Medium (FGM) & Bonded Fiber Matrix (BFM) 152 SaiCoir Erosion Net, BioNet, Media Erosion Control Blankets: i j Biodegradable Erosion Control Geotextiles 153 Envirogrid: Geocell - Three-Dimensional Cellular Soil Confinement 154 Land.Tiles: Erosion Control Tile System 156 Cornell University (CU)-Structural Soil and Amsterdam Tree Sand: Structural Soils 158 EnduraSafe: Recycled Rubber Mulch 159 Porous Concrete & Asphalt: Pervious Pavement 160 Soil Cement: Cement Modified Soils 161 Soil Moist, Stockabsorb, Watersorb, PetroGuard, Oasis: Super-Absorbent Polymers (Hydrogel) 162 Bridgestone Rubber Dam: Inflatable Dams 163 Biobarrier: Root Growth Control Textiles 164 Controlled Burning: Prescribed Fire 165 Toxic Filtration via Fungi: Mycoremediation 166 Land Imprinting: Re-Vegetating Degraded Land 168 Naturaire Systems: Indoor Air Biofilters 170 TXActive - Photocatalytic Cement: Self-Cleaning, Smog-Eating Concrete 171 BioHavenWild Floating Islands: Floating Habitat 172 Newspaper Nitrate Treatment: Bioretention Medium 174 Data Fountain: Comparative Information Display 175 Sandscape & Illuminating Clay: Tangible Geo-Spatial Analysis 176 Outdoor Misting System: Mist and Fog Systems 177 Project Credits178 Acknowledgements 185 Illustration Credits 186 Index 188 On the authors 191