What is Plantscaping?

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Interior gardens and plants produce many day-to-day benefits, like mood boosting and memory enhancing effects. Interior landscape design, also known as "plantscaping", is much more than the act of bringing plants indoors; it's actually about the strategic placement and selection of plant species within an architectural project to highlight and enhance aspects of spatial design.

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Depending on the plant's structure and form, different spatial phenomena and effects can be generated.

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For example, tall plants can be used in large spaces to produce focal hierarchies, or groups of plants can create areas for chilling out and/or resting. And, of course, vegetation can help control the thermal and acoustic performance of spaces. 

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In addition to the architectural complement that plants bring to interiors, they are also associated with promoting emotional and environmental benefits for living and working. 

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Here are some examples of projects that use "plantscaping" to achieve spatial, emotional and environmental effects.

Editor's Note: This article was originally published in December 2019 and updated in June 2021.

House in Chau Doc / NISHIZAWAARCHITECTS

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Gallery-House / Carles Enrich

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Artist Studio in Sonoma / Mork-Ulnes Architects

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House 24 / Park + Associates

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Taitung Ruin Academy / Marco Casagrande

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Desert City / Garciagerman Arquitectos

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Siu Siu – Lab of Primitive Senses / DIVOOE ZEIN Architects

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SISII / Yuko Nagayama & Associates

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LESS House / H.a

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House on Pali Hill / Studio Mumbai

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Casa Mipibu / Terra e Tuma Arquitetos Associados

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Blue Bottle Coffee Nakameguro Cafe / Schemata Architects

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Editor's Note: This article was originally published on December 26, 2017.

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Cite: Santibañez, Danae. "What is Plantscaping?" [¿Qué es el plantscaping?] 09 Dec 2019. ArchDaily. (Trans. Quintal, Becky) Accessed . <https://www.archdaily.com/886132/what-is-plantscaping> ISSN 0719-8884

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