Patrick Blanc

Patrick Blanc (born June 3, 1953, Paris) is a French botanist who works at the French National Centre for Scientific Research,[1] where he specializes in plants from tropical forests. He is the modern innovator of the green wall, specifically, he invented the modern vertical hydroponics garden, which distinguishes it from its predecessors (aka. the Green Wall, Botanical Brick invented by Professor Stanley Hart White at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in 1938).

For the French ski mountaineer, see Patrick Blanc (ski mountaineer).
Vertical garden of the Musée du Quai Branly in 2012.
Halles, Avignon (2005) at the date of creation.
Patrick Blanc, Centre commercial des quatre Temps (2006), La Défense, (Puteaux).

Patrick Blancs contemporary patents are responsible for modernizing and popularizing the garden type. Blanc describes his vertical garden as follows:

On a load-bearing wall or structure is placed a metal frame that supports a PVC plate 10 millimetres (0.39 in) thick, on which are stapled two layers of polyamide felt each 3 millimetres (0.12 in) thick. These layers mimic cliff-growing mosses and support the roots of many plants. A network of pipes controlled by valves provides a nutrient solution containing dissolved minerals needed for plant growth. The felt is soaked by capillary action with this nutrient solution, which flows down the wall by gravity. The roots of the plants take up the nutrients they need, and excess water is collected at the bottom of the wall by a gutter, before being re-injected into the network of pipes: the system works in a closed circuit. Plants are chosen for their ability to grow on this type of environment and depending on available light.

This system exemplifies Blanc's ideas as a scientist and also the 15th target of the Haute Qualité Environnementale ("High Quality Environment") project, although the latter gives particular stress to use of more local species, at least outdoors.

In 2009 he was awarded an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects.[2]

Works
Green walls
Other works

Bibliography
  • 1990 : Biologie d'une canopée de forêt équatoriale : rapport de Mission Radeau des cimes, octobre-novembre 1989, Petit Saut, - Guyane française, ("Biology under an equatorial forest: report of Study Radeus, October–November 1989, French Guiana, a collective study under the direction of Francis Hallé et Patrick Blanc, Departement of Industry and xylochemistry
  • 2002 : Être plante à l'ombre des forêts tropicales ("Putting plants in the light of tropical forests"), Éditions Nathan
  • 2005 : Le bonheur d'être plante, ("The pleasure of being a plant"), Éditions Maren Sell (ISBN 2-350-04018-6)
  • 2007 : Folies végétales ("Plants' follies"), (lecture, Paris), éditions Chêne
  • 2008 : Le Mur Végétal, de la nature à la ville ("The green wall in town and country"), éditions Michel Lafon
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See also
  • The vertical garden of CaixaForum Madrid at its creation in 2007.
  • CaixaForum in 2009.
  • CaixaForum in 2011, showing the evolution of the vegetation in 4 years.
  • Detail of CaixaForum in 2011.
  • Vertical garden of the Arche du rond point du Grand Théâtre de Provence, in Aix-en-Provence (2008).

References
  1. Ping Magazine: Vertical Garden: The art of organic architecture Archived 2010-11-26 at the Wayback Machine, 8 December 2006
  2. "RIBA announces 12 Honorary Fellowships". architecture.com. 6 October 2009. Archived from the original on 16 April 2014. Retrieved 15 April 2014.
  3. http://www.galeriaprzymorze.eu/?site=greenwall (Polish)
  4. "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-10-05. Retrieved 2011-08-17.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) (viewed 17 August 2011)
  5. https://www.verticalgardenpatrickblanc.com/realisations/kuala-lumpur/le-nouvel-kuala-lumpur
  6. https://www.verticalgardenpatrickblanc.com/node/14152 (Polish)
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