The constraint
A full-height atrium with steeply varying light, restricted access above ground level and no tolerance for a wall that looks patchy while it establishes.
- Client
- Cathedral Square
- Sector
- Commercial atrium
- Location
- Bristol
- System
- Channel Pro®
- Scope
- Design, install, maintenance
01 — The brief
Height, light and access, all at once.
Tall atria are difficult for planting. Light falls off sharply with height, air moves and dries, and anything above the first few metres can only be reached with equipment.
The Channel Pro grid let us pre-grow cassettes off site and clip them in dry, so the wall read as finished from the day it was installed rather than filling in over a season.
What we delivered
- —Channel Pro aluminium grid installed to full atrium height
- —Cassettes pre-grown off site to finished density
- —Zoned irrigation matched to light levels up the wall
- —Scheduled maintenance access designed in from the start
02 — Challenge, solution, result
How it was resolved.
The approach
Channel Pro cassettes, pre-grown off site, clipped into a lightweight aluminium grid. Irrigation zoned so upper and lower bands are watered to their own schedule.
The outcome
A continuous planted surface at full density on handover, with a maintenance regime that keeps the upper zones reachable without disrupting the building.
03 — Gallery
04 — Related work
Related projects.
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