South Face, image courteys of Massimo Iosa Ghini

If you still remember our previous post for Massimo Iosa Ghini’s South Face installation in Milan last year, it is time for you to have a second thought and option when designing a vertical green for your project.

+ Project description courtesy of Massimo Iosa Ghini

South Face is a solution for a wide range of uses: perfect, for instance as a facade, wall or partitioning wall it finds its habitat in both urban and private settings. The system consists in a modular insulating wall made in hollow eco-concrete elements to which a substrate has been added to house a thick and scenic vegetation. The facade turns into a real and proper vertical garden, which absorbs CO2 from the atmosphere and thermally insulates the inside rooms.

Declining a "rough" material like concrete into a typical Massimo Iosa Ghini soft touch is just as fascinating as its vertical modularity for eco-sustainable metropolitan gardens. South Face perfectly represents il Cantiere's mission: investing in production and project research to take concrete into unexplored settings.

+ Project credits

Design: Massimo Iosa Ghini
Year 2010
Company: II Cantiere