Interior Gardens : Designing and Constructing Green Spaces in Private and Public Buildings

This book offers a comprehensive introduction to the planning and implementation of this special kind of garden, taking the concrete planning process as its guide. From design fundamentals and concept development with different typology variants all the way to the choice of materials, the various construction principles, and building services, all subjects relevant to planning are comprehensively presented.
The planning information is illustrated with numerous international examples, with projects ranging from a "green wall" as interior design element and private house gardens in Australia, New Zealand, and Germany all the way to award – winning ecological office buildings in the USA and the Netherlands, an old - age home in Sweden, and an indoor park in Canada.

This book offers a comprehensive introduction to the planning and implementation of this special kind of garden, taking the concrete planning process as its guide. From design fundamentals and concept development with different typology variants all the way to the choice of materials, the various construction principles, and building services, all subjects relevant to planning are comprehensively presented. The planning information is illustrated with numerous international examples, with projects ranging from a "green wall" as interior design element and private house gardens in Australia, New Zealand, and Germany all the way to award – winning ecological office buildings in the USA and the Netherlands, an old - age home in Sweden, and an indoor park in Canada.

Gärten im Gebäudeinneren bieten nachhaltig eine Vielzahl ökologischer und ökonomischer Vorteile. Faktoren wie eine Verbesserung des Raumklimas und der Arbeitsplatzsituation und somit eine Erhöhung der Lebensqualität sind die maßgeblichen Parameter dieser besonderen Entwurfsaufgabe. Das vorliegende Buch gibt eine umfassende Einführung in die Planung und Umsetzung dieser speziellen Gärten und orientiert sich dabei am konkreten Planungsprozess: von Entwurfsgrundlagen, der Konzeptentwicklung mit verschiedenen Typologie-Varianten bis hin zur Materialauswahl, den unterschiedlichen Konstruktionsprinzipien und der Gebäudetechnik werden alle planungsrelevanten Themen umfassend dargestellt. Zahlreiche internationale Beispiele veranschaulichen die planerischen Informationen, wobei die Bandbreite der Projekte von einer begrünten Wand als innenarchitektonischem Element, privaten Hausgärten in Australien, Neuseeland oder Deutschland bis hin zu ausgezeichneten ökologischen Bürogebäude in den USA und der Niederlande, einem Altenheim in Schweden und einem Indoor-Park in Kanada reicht.

This book offers a comprehensive introduction to the planning and implementation of this special kind of garden, taking the concrete planning process as its guide. From design fundamentals and concept development with different typology variants all the way to the choice of materials, the various construction principles, and building services, all subjects relevant to planning are comprehensively presented.
The planning information is illustrated with numerous international examples, with projects ranging from a "green wall" as interior design element and private house gardens in Australia, New Zealand, and Germany all the way to award – winning ecological office buildings in the USA and the Netherlands, an old - age home in Sweden, and an indoor park in Canada.