Musée du quai Branly Green Wall

Project Name: Musée du quai Branly Green Wall Year: 2006 Owner: Musée du quai Branly Location: Paris, France Building Type: Museum Type: Living Wall System: Single Source Provider Size: 8600 sq.ft. Slope: 100% Access: Accessible, Open to Public Submitted by: Greenroofs.com Designers/Manufacturers of Record: Architect: Jean Nouvel Green Wall Designer & Installation: Patrick Blanc Green Wall System: Mur Vegetal

Situated close to the Eiffel Tower, the Musée du quai Branly, known in English as the Quai Branly Museum, nicknamed MQB, is a museum in Paris, France that features indigenous art, cultures and civilizations from Africa, Asia, Oceania, and the Americas. The building was designed by architect Jean Nouvel, and the "living wall" (200m long by 12m tall) on part of the exterior of the museum was designed and planted by Patrick Blanc. The museum complex contains several buildings, as well as a mediatheque and a garden.

Writing in The New York Times article entitled "Quai Branly: A perverse, magical space" Nicolai Ouroussoff says, "By contrast, the exterior of the administration building is swallowed up by a vertical carpet of exotic plants punctured by big windows. On some stories, the plants invade the building, crawling down the interior walls. ("When you put in little flowers, people are happy," Nouvel said of his design.)" Patrick Blanc’s hydroponic Vertical Garden System, known as Le Mur Vegetal in French, allows both plants and buildings to live in harmony with one another, and can be implemented both inside and out.

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Read about the Musée du quai Branly from Wikipedia, here. Read the New York Times article of June 27, 2006 entitled "Quai Branly: A perverse, magical space" by Nicolai Ouroussoff here, via The International Herald Tribune.

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