At the Institute for Acoustics and Building Physics (IABP) of the Faculty, a new research project startet. Aim is the investigation and development of an innovative green facade system to promote biodiversity.
The overall objective is to develop and investigate an innovative green facade system to promote biodiversity as part of the urban green infrastructure. The system supports not only a heterogeneous plant composition with changing and high flowering occurrence, but also an increase in structural richness to create vertical, high-quality habitats for selected plant and animal species. Thus, a targeted use of plants in vertical urban spaces is expected to improve the accompanying ecosystem services.
To achieve the project goal, about 20 existing green facades in the Stuttgart region will be analyzed over a period of two years. The main focus of the analysis will be the recording of the surrounding urban landscape, the meso- and microclimate, the green maintenance and the biodiversity. From these surveys, the key factors or "drivers" for promoting biodiversity on green facades will be identified, and an assessment system for characterizing and visualizing urban biodiversity for green facades will be created. Two innovative green façade systems for the promotion of urban biodiversity are derived from the interaction of scientific findings from the results explained above and the practical experience of HELIX Pflanzensysteme GmbH. The systems will be installed on a facade area of about 250 m² and a suitable green maintenance and control concept will be developed. Finally, the effect as well as the benefit of the system for humans, flora and fauna will be validated.
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