Total Value Wall (TVW)

Integrating green into the city: after green roofs, now wall gardens

Especially in urban areas, where people are living ever more compactly and closer together, the integration of green space into the city is becoming increasingly important. In addition to the better known green roofs, green façades or wall gardens are also becoming increasingly popular. Wall gardens are by now known to every architect thanks to prestigious projects at home and abroad, but despite their many advantages they are still not applied in practice.

Through this project, Muurtuinen bvba wants to make the advantages of a vertical wall garden known to a broad public. We want to demonstrate our own developed wall garden, the Total Value Wall, on the basis of two example projects: at a school in Lier and at a town house in Ghent.

Our Total Value Wall is an innovative multidisciplinary wall garden that works as a fully-fledged building envelope with a lot of advantages: better thermal and sound insulation, a longer life for the wall, a lower fire risk, etc. The wall also absorbs fine dust and retains rainwater.

Through these sample projects, we would like to test an additional application of our wall garden, namely the possibility of using the vertical garden as a water purification system.

What will the future bring?

Based on the latest test results and end-user experiences, we will further evolve our Total Value Wall 2.0 into a Total Value Wall 3.0, where the focus is on taking more care of the end-user.

We already have a number of customers, both builders and private individuals, who have provided our system in their building project. We expect to install the new generation of wall gardens from the end of 2021. The added value of our project has already been proven and known, the demand is there, hopefully an appropriate legislative framework will follow ..