Looking for ways to create spaces and communities that connect people with nature? Check out our best biophilic urbanism design ideas from EarthPlanter Self Watering Planters, GreenBlue Urban, and PolyGrate .They will inspire you for your next project.

Downtown Louisville

The fantastic collaboration of greens and reds in our Metropolitan Tapered Square makes a statement as part of a streetscape.

RSM Plaza

Pocket Park: a small park accessible to the general public that is created on a single vacant building lot, an irregular piece of land, or as a public space component of a large building

Four trees were planted in this pocket park courtyard, all utilizing the RootSpace ArborSystem to provide large volumes of uncompacted soil for vigorous root growth and healthy tree establishment. Each tree received about 610 cubic feet of soil volume at an installed cost of approximately $6,200 per tree (including soil cells, root management, irrigation/aeration), excavation, labor, and filler soil). Maximizing the health and lifespan of urban trees while managing stormwater and providing many other benefits is all key to using GreenBlue Urban’s RootSpace system.

Atlantic Station Neighborhood Improvement

Atlantic Station is a mixed-use neighborhood developed on the old Atlantic Steel Mill site, which was in operation from 1901 to the mid-1970s. The plans and land reclamation began in the late 1990s, with residences occupying in 2003 and the first retail businesses emerging in 2004. The development goals were to be friendlier to the environment and healthier to its occupants.

As a result, many of the buildings are LEED certified. It was natural that (248)- PolyGrate™ tree grates would be installed in Atlantic Station and the area around the 17th Street Bridge. Made of 100% recycled plastic, PolyGrate™ fits the requirements of the green initiative that the developers of Atlantic Station had specified.

Brooklyn Grange Rooftop Farm #2

Brooklyn Grange Farm is a privately-owned, community-oriented rooftop farm in the heart of Brooklyn. It was built with rooflite® agricultural, a rooflite soil product designed specifically for agricultural use and designed to function as a green roof medium. With a dedication to developing the best soil product possible, rooflite continuously fine-tuned the soil to meet the goals of Brooklyn Grange Farm, and this project still informs our continuing product development for rooftop farms. The large scale farm’s green roof captures over 1 million gallons of stormwater each year and grows more than 50,000 lbs. of fresh produce a year.

Great Jones Alley

HMWhite Landscape Architects and Urban Designers specified Tournesol’s VGM Modular Living Wall System to complete the designed green wall entrance and the 2nd floor terrace in the building’s courtyard. The VGM3 allows for complex planting designs and complete coverage of any surface and are designed to last the life of the building. Our VGM3 system is a recycled plastic planting module (294 modules of 8” planting depth used here) attached to stainless steel hanging rails. The rails carry the load and are mounted to either the wall or a framed sub-structure with brackets; the huge wall expanse required 135 mounting rails – 25 rails at 47 ¼” L and 110 rails at 70 7/8” L with 1,300 brackets.

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