CH2 Building Melbourne

On World Earth Day (April 22 2023) these suspended horizontal xeric Tillandsia screens were installed on CH2 Building (Council House 2 Building), City of Melbourne. Unlike other integrations of plants and architecture, the Tillandsia screens require No medium, No watering system, No fertilizer, and are the first screens that use No plastic. As such they offer a new model to replace plastic sun sails. The system relies on the evolved biology of the Tillandsia plants which are also resilient to both heat and drought. Maintenance is on a 3 - 4 year cycle.



Time lapse installing the Tillandsia plant screens
25-10-2023. This xeric Tillandsia (airplant) screen has now been installed 10 levels up on CH2 Building for over 6 months. The plants on the screen require No water or fertilizer with the plants using their evolved biology to grow and best of all 100% no plastic! This is a sustainable model for creating shade from the summer sun without using shade sails made from plastic that shed plastic microfibers. So how does it stack up? • Maintenance visits 0 • Maintenance cost 0 • Water usage 0 • Fertilizer usage 0 • Replacement plants 0 • Energy usage 0 • Escaped plastic microfibers 0 • Weed species 0 • Pesticides used 0 • Enjoyment from staff – immeasurable To photograph the time-lapse sequence, as an ecological artist, it was such a pleasure to spend 6 hours in the space where this living plant work is installed and observe the nuances of time on the way light and weather affected the Tillandsia plant screens. The screen was designed and installed by Lloyd Godman Studio LAB xeric “Where plants fly beyond the vertical garden”