Living Green Walls
We specialize in the design, construction and ongoing maintenance of custom living green wall solutions. Our award-winning systems have been tried and tested for every scale and application around the world. First, we work to understand our clients’ needs. Only then do we recommend the living wall technologies most appropriate for their budget and design goals.
Our living plant wall systems are an amazing way to enhance any indoor or outdoor space. Our innovative green wall systems are perfect for commercial and residential applications, including office spaces, restaurants, cafes, lobbies, and more. With our hydroponic living wall systems, you can bring a sense of life and freshness into your environment without sacrificing aesthetics.
Most importantly, our living walls use materials built to last. Our solutions are designed for maximum durability and easy maintenance, helping your wall look great year-round for years to come. We use the best quality plants, irrigation systems, and substrates to ensure your living green walls are always healthy and thriving. Try our living green wall solutions to add a unique element of beauty and freshness to your space.
Environmental Benefits
Natural air purification and cooling
Noise muffling & sound absorption
Uses very little floorspace
Economic Benefits
Differentiate your building on the market
Bolster company branding
Earn LEED + WELL Building Standard credits
Psychological Benefits
Increased productivity and creativity
Improved feelings of health + well being
Boosted immunity and reduced stress
Living Walls can help in many different ways. Whatever brings you here today, we can help:
Indoor Living Walls
Urbanstrong has several different solutions for indoor Living Walls.
Featured here is easily one of the most beautiful and robust technologies on the market. Made of pre-grown vegetated panels, this hydroponic system uses a proprietary inorganic soil-less growing media that is both lightweight and long-lived. Compared to soil-based systems, this means it will not degrade over time. It also means dramatically lower plant replacements and maintenance costs. This creates an ideal environment to sustain lush and healthy plant growth, resulting in a seamless tapestry of tropical plants.
System Benefits
✓ Made from 100% recyclable components
✓ Lowest plant replacement rate on the market
✓ Extremely high energy/water efficient operation
✓ Most diverse plant palette
✓ Plants cover backing for seamless tapestry
✓ Eligible for multiple category LEED credits
This is the best choice for long-term installations and those prefering a seamless tapestry of foilage and low levels of maintenance and plant replacement. Product design allows for unlimited flexibility in plant placement unlike systems with fixed plant cubicles or pockets. The result is a high-end design aesthetic and vast potential plant palette.
Outdoor Living Walls
This hydroponic green wall system consists of a flexible modular panel and metal sub-frame. The system’s soil-less planting core is made of insulating, horticultural grade Rockwool for great water retention properties. It can be planted with a variety of shrubs, perennials, and ferns.
The irrigation system is truly ‘smart.’ It collects data from built-in moisture sensors. Web-enabled, it forecasts freezing weather temps to automatically close/winterize the system or open up and water the plants. No other system on the market does this.
System Benefits
✓ Cradle to Cradle (C2C) Certified
✓ Guranteed greenery in below-freezing conditions
✓ Flexible panel system to follow curves and angles
✓ Smart irrigation technology adjusts with seasonal changes
✓ Max annual plant replacement rate of 7-12% in winter climate cities (compared to 80-100% for other solutions)
This is the best working solution for outdoor living green walls in cold climate cities like NYC, Chicago, and Toronto.
Mobile Living Dividers
Our mobile living dividers bring nature indoors while cleaning the air, muffling noise, and organizing the space where you work or live. Hygiene, social distancing, air quality, and mental health are at the heart of effective space planning post-pandemic. Living plant walls are a great start. But these days, what makes sense now could be rendered ineffective in six months time so flexibility and portability is key.
System Benefits
✓ No electricity or plumbing needed
✓ Ultimate tool for flexible space planning
✓ Integrated lighting and automatic irrigation
✓ Single and Double-sided units available
Pop-Up Living Wall Rental Service
Looking to green your next event? Elevate your brand and treat your guests to a stunning photo opportunity with our 8’ x 8’ pop-up living wall garden.
Our Pop-Up Living Wall is perfect for a variety of events including:
Conferences and trade shows
Weddings, graduations, Bar Mitzvahs
Branding events & product launches
Corporate events (holiday parties, etc)
✓ Lush, full look of 100% living tropical plants
✓ Easy, hassle-free process (Urbanstrong team will deliver, install, and demo)
✓ Options for integration with signage or custom logos
✓ 2 - 4 week lead time
System Details:
This is the best choice for a mobile free-standing solution to physical distancing and flexible space planning. Create pop-up privacy nooks or wheel some greenery into a meeting room.
Living Frames
Our frames are the perfect solution for urban and suburban dwellers, offices, restaurants, and studios looking to enhance the aesthetic of their otherwise drab and sterile spaces.
Urbanstrong's Living Pictures offer a "PIY" (Plant It Yourself) approach, making your living wall easy to install and maintain for several years to come.
System Benefits
✓ No electricity or plumbing required
✓ Mounts to the wall like a shelf or picture frame
✓ Low maintenance and easy care
✓ Ships with plant and lighting guide
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Living Wall Projects
Coldwell Banker
Helsinki Airport
Sui Yoga
Clinical Minds
Boston Moss Wall
Corporate HQ
International Flavors & Fragrances Inc.
Living Walls FAQ
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A living wall (also known as a living plant wall, biophilia wall, green wall, or vertical garden) is a vegetative system installed in a vertical orientation mounted to a facade or free-standing structure, usually with an automated irrigation system incorporated. Living walls can be designed for interior or exterior applications.
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Living walls provide environmental, economic, and psychological benefits including: natural air purification and cooling, noise muffling and sound absorption, bolstering of company branding, increased productivity and creativity, improved feelings of health and well being, boosted occupant immunity and reduced stress levels, and potential to earn multiple credits in building rating systems like LEED and the WELL Building Standard.
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Living walls require routine maintenance, including watering, pruning, and fertilizing as well as adjusting programs for irrigation and lighting where applicable.Typically, this is a monthly occurrence.
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Yes! We can adhere our waterproof systems to studs, brick, drywalls, wood, stucco, and even no wall. We can even build our own free-standing solution for your space (such as a living wall divider).
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For an exterior living wall, we opt for perennials and hardy species that are native to the region and support biodiversity.
For an interior living wall, we select from a variety of tropical foliage with varying light and water requirements.
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Lightweight! Most of our technologies range anywhere from 8-10 lbs/sq.ft, fully saturated.
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When designed correctly, Living Walls are eligible for a range of credits: WELL points by improving the health and wellness of occupants and LEED credits for energy efficiency and stormwater management, but again only if designed correctly. Learn more https://urbanstrong.com/blog/8-concepts-living-walls-satisfy-for-well-building-standardhere.
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The cost of installing a living wall can vary widely depending on factors such as scale, system specified, plant palette design, and the complexity of the installation. However, industry average is anywhere from $165-$265/sf.
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Every manufacturer has a different method, however good practice is to first install a barrier of some kind on the host wall to create an air gap. After that, necessary waterproofing methods will need to be applied before the system is installed. Most irrigation designs feature conduits that run within the wall system to avoid splashing or leaks.