Urban Green Furniture brings nature closer to the citizens
Imagine a city where the furniture offers both the functionality and the direct connection to nature. In this city, you can wait for the bus sheltered by a green roof, observing the butterflies enjoying the flower splendor of the green wall integrated to the stop. On your way home from the bus stop, you’re passing by an open playful workshop arranged in a shared mini garden. After arriving home, you can admire the greenery decorating your window thanks to the outdoor green facade attached to the wall of the building. These kinds of comfortable, green and sustainable cities we are building with our stakeholders, one Urban Green Furniture at a time.
Urban Green Furniture (UGF) offer unique opportunities to a diverse range of urban spaces. They can be either temporary or stable green solutions with nature-based, modular and multifunctional, as well as service-based features. UGF is a step towards future’s blue-green cities.
Ecosystem services solve urban challenges
Nature-basedness means that the solutions that UGF offer for urban challenges are derived from nature and its ecosystem services. In a nature-based city, you can cool down in the shadows of the greenery, relax in the swish of leaves and explore the diversity of birds and butterflies. In addition to improvements in cities’ comfortability and biological diversity, the
nature-based green furniture has the potential to enhance stormwater management.
Modular structures integrate into cities
Modularity and multifunctionality refer to the puzzle-like pieces of the UGF and the endless adaptation opportunities that this design offers. Due to modularity, the structures are easy and cost-efficient to install, dismantle, transfer, maintain and mold to fit into different urban spaces without decreasing the ecosystem benefits. Modularity also opens the design for multiple functionalities, since besides living greenery, the outdoor furniture can be combined with board game tables or gym equipment, for instance.
Service-based solutions enhance circularity
Service-basedness means that the UGF are we offer UGF preferably as rentable products. The rental agreement covers all the services required to meet the needs of the customer and the UGF, including designing, installment, maintenance and storing for winter. Service-basedness makes these green solutions approachable to a wider group of consumers and urban spaces, following the principles of circularity.
We are currently coordinating several research and development projects on Urban Green Furniture and are open to new partnerships. We are more than excited to bring greenery to new, even challenging locations, also in the form of already-existing UGF. Don’t hesitate to contact us!
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