Greenroofs.com Project of the Week: 3/13/17

Golden 1 Center
Sacramento, CA, USA
4,800 sq. ft. Greenwalls (7)

Project of the Week Mini Description & Details

As the world’s first indoor sports venue certified LEED Platinum, the Golden 1 Center is the brand new home of the NBA’s Sacramento Kings, featuring seven sections of LiveWall® green walls. Designed by AECOM to be different from a typical sports arena unconnected from its surroundings and lifeless except on game days, the Golden 1 Center celebrates Sacramento’s climate and lifestyle. Its innovative indoor-outdoor design re-imagines how an arena can relate to the streetscapes and neighborhoods around it. Reflecting the region and connecting to the city, the living walls are a prominent feature of Golden 1 Center.

The inspired idea was to make the building look as if it rests on the green walls, rooting the arena in the landscape and extending it from the new plaza up to the walls of the arena itself. The design redefines how an arena’s footprint affects its environment and community and the green walls were a natural outgrowth of the King’s commitment to sustainability. As visitors walk into the arena, they see living bands of green that change with different sections displaying different plants based on the varying patterns of sun and shade around the building.

Completed in September 2016, the seven sections of the Golden 1 Center green wall vary in dimensions and total 4,800 square feet and include 2,700 LiveWall modular planters in a custom platinum color. With a slope of about 10 degrees, they feature 18 different types of plants and 5,400 plants in total, watered with LiveWall Outdoor – Automatic Irrigation. All flowering plants bloom in shades of purple, the Kings’ signature color.

Publicly accessible, the green walls are visible from multiple vantage points around the arena. Whether installed indoors or outdoors, green walls are visually appealing and inviting, inspiring and healthful, and beneficial to the environment, and the green walls at the Golden 1 Center in Sacramento enliven the exterior of the world’s greenest indoor sports and entertainment arena.

Year: 2016
Owner: City of Sacramento
Location: Sacramento, CA, USA
Building Type: Commercial
Type: Living Wall
System: Single Source Provider
Size: 4800 sq.ft.
Slope: 10 degrees
Access: Accessible, Open to Public

Designers/Manufacturers of Record:

Architect, Design, Engineer, Landscape Architect, and Urban Planner: AECOM
Arena Construction Manger: Turner Construction
Arena Project Manager: ICON Venue Group
Modular Greenwall System: LiveWall®
Plant Supplier and LiveWall Sales Representative: Tom Hawkins, GRP, Florasource Ltd.
Greenwall Installation: BrightView

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