In Living Color
GBBN, Office Green wall
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Cincinnati, OH |
We find solving design puzzles to be most successful when people from different disciplines, with complementary skills and passions, work together. Using this approach, we developed a custom living wall for to anchor the lobby and café on the first floor of our renovated Cincinnati workplace that is a custom, colorful, living wall that anchors the lobby and café.
The project grew out of a desire to implement environmental graphic design into the office renovation, but in a way that pushed the boundaries and definition of “wall graphics.” Knowing whatever we developed for the space would be prominent, and visible to passersby outside, we wanted something that helped convey GBBN’s commitment to sustainable, healthy, and welcoming workspaces. Additionally, research points to significant health benefits for people who visit nature more than once a week. With 95% of our lives spent indoors, living walls—help keep us connected to the natural world, boost performance, and help restore us from mental fatigue.
Augmented reality helped the design and installation team understand how the support structure and lattice overlay work together so plants could be placed appropriately in the openings.
From 2D idea to 3D reality, the green wall comes to life and brings life to the lobby and cafe space in our Cincinnati office. Bonus: it makes a great background for video calls.
Green walls are very stimulating to the mind. People are attracted to that so when these walls go in, people gravitate towards them.
Wearing AR goggles Urban Blooms founder, Tyler Wolf, is able to "see" where plants should be placed before the lattice is hung which made his work easier and faster.