A spectacular hanging garden that covers 1,000 m2 of an interior patio wall of Hotel Santo Domingo located barely a few meters away from Gran Via in Madrid was presented to the press last June 25.
The wall garden is home to more than 2,500 plants from more than 110 species, as well as a 20-meter waterfall and cypresses standing almost six meters tall.
Just as their horizontal counterparts, vertical gardens also contribute to cleaning up the atmosphere, trapping carbon dioxide, emitting oxygen, and maintaining temperature. The Hotel Santo Domingo garden aims to absorb 25,000 kilograms of carbon dioxide each year. And its 20-meter waterfall, has the same cooling effect as 50 air conditioning units. It also offers a refuge for sparrows, a familiar Madrid resident, which have already begun nesting. And most of all, "guests in interior rooms will now have something nice to look out on".
An imaginative way to make use of the vertical spaces as horizontal spaces become scarce.
Source: Jardines Verticales
El País
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