Biological Concrete for Living Wall

Sustainability is a very talked about word at the moment with lots of companies and architects vying to come up with the newest sustainable technologies and the most sustainable buildings to date. Living walls are something that I had been researching throughout the first term so this new technology was very interesting to me.

  
(photo from ArchDaily)

Barcelona Tech structural technology group have started developing a new living wall that doesn't involve any fix on technologies but actually grows within the structure itself. The new concrete technology encourages the growth of organisms on its surface.

The concrete combines three layers on top of a structural element and gives ecological, thermal and aesthetic advantages. Within these three layers is a unique layer that absorbs and stores rainwater, the water doesn't effect the building as there is a waterproof membrane but must help with the growth of organisms on the surface.