From the Horizontal Garden to the Vertical Garden: An Architectural and Environmental Perspective of the “Green” Element

Martins, Ana Maria Tavares; Campos, Ines Daniel de

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From the Horizontal Garden to the Vertical Garden: An Architectural and Environmental Perspective of the “Green” Element

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dc.contributor.author	Martins, Ana Maria Tavares
dc.contributor.author	Campos, Ines Daniel de
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dc.date.issued	2019
dc.description.abstract	Throughout human history, gardens comprised many purposes. With the evolution of society, there were villages, towns and cities organized according to geographical, economic, social and cultural characteristics of each epoch. Throughout the history of mankind, the "green" element has always been present. Gardens accompanied this development depending on the theories in vogue and had several purposes: they were sacred spaces, leisure spaces or spaces of healing; they were architectural elements in the characterization of outdoor spaces; they were areas of experimentation and research. After the Industrial Revolution, urban areas have expanded dramatically, occupying large amounts of rural soil replacing natural vegetation with the modernist urban structure. At the end of the 19th century and beginning of the 20th century, the acquired garden concept had been challenged, stretching, instead, over a horizontal surface in the form of green roofs which characterized many of the modernist buildings. In fact, from the modernist movement on, horizontal covers, that lead to various experiments in the context of green roofs and garden which may be used and enjoyed by its inhabitants or covered and accessible only for maintenance purposes, have appeared. Through the end of the 20th century and early 21st century, the horizontal roof was then an experimental ground on which architecture could respond to a new challenge: the green facades or vertical gardens. In this way, the built environment can be the support for a new concept of green structure and urban or rural "green", i.e, a vertical garden: a green facade. This new "green skin" of the building can regulate the temperature and air quality as well as control the amount of light inside the building or be an aesthetic element of the architectural coating. New architectural elements are created through which adverse environmental conditions are mitigated, either on new construction or on architectural rehabilitation.	pt_PT
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dc.identifier.citation	MARTINS, Ana M.T., CAMPOS, Inês D.; ”From The Horizontal Garden To The Vertical Garden: An Architectural And Environmental Perspective Of The “Green” Element” in IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering; volume 471; 072022; 2019; doi: 10.1088/1757-899X/471/7/072022	pt_PT
dc.identifier.doi	10.1088/1757-899X/471/7/072022	pt_PT
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10400.6/8577
dc.language.iso	eng	pt_PT
dc.peerreviewed	yes	pt_PT
dc.publisher	IOP Publishing	pt_PT
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/	pt_PT
dc.subject	Built Heritage	pt_PT
dc.subject	Architecture	pt_PT
dc.title	From the Horizontal Garden to the Vertical Garden: An Architectural and Environmental Perspective of the “Green” Element	pt_PT
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oaire.citation.volume	471	pt_PT
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