The constraint
A long, narrow courtyard where a single planted wall would read as an ornament and where any build-up eats into usable width.
- Client
- Private residence
- Sector
- Residential
- Location
- Brompton Square, London
- Scope
- Bespoke living walls
- Setting
- Narrow courtyard
01 — The brief
A corridor, not a garden.
The courtyard is narrow enough that a planted wall on one side alone would have looked like decoration. Planting both facing elevations turns the space into something you stand inside.
Depth was the constraint: every millimetre the build-up takes is a millimetre off an already tight walkway, so the system was specified for the slimmest viable profile.
What we delivered
- —Living walls to both facing courtyard elevations
- —Slim-profile build-up to protect walking width
- —Planting matched across both walls for continuity
- —Concealed irrigation and drainage runs
02 — Challenge, solution, result
How it was resolved.
The approach
A slim-profile system on both facing elevations, with matched planting so the two walls read as one space, and irrigation runs concealed within the build-up.
The outcome
A hard corridor turned into an enclosed green room, with the walking width essentially unchanged.
03 — Related work
Related projects.
— — Next step
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