Impact of Vertical Greenery System on Internal Building Corridors in the Tropic

A review of energy characteristic of vertical greenery systems

“…For example, Sunakorn [91] mentioned the quality of green facades by the percentage of plants covered on the trellises and the number of leaves layers, while Perini [94] described the quality of green facades by plants thicknesses. Sometimes the thickness of plants and substrate [95], or plants and panel size [96] are measured, and sometimes the density and shadow factors [53] are introduced. Criteria to measure the quality of plants on vertical greenery systems is different from one test to another, and is related to different kinds of climbers, plants species, trellises, substrate and others.…”

Assessing growth performance and deficiency of climber species on tropical greenwalls

“…P. alliaceum stayed at the lowest, and P. venusta the second lowest. Designers recommending these six species should be prepared to accept a relatively low foliage density, which may be acceptable or even essential for the translucent greenwalls (Ojembarrena et al, 2013) requiring natural light access and ventilation (Sunakorn andYimprayoon, 2011;Jaafar, Said, Reba, & Rasidi, 2013).…”

Study Advances on Vertical Greenery System

“…Vertical greenery system is an excellent way of saving energy [7]. Areas with vertical vegetation are cooler than light-coloured bricks, walls and black surfaces that are typically found in urban areas, because vegetation can alleviate Urban Heat Island (UHI) directly by shading buildings from solar radiation and through evapotranspiration cooling [2,17], reducing solar reflection and re-radiation to atmosphere [2].…”

“…VGS as an important part of UGS, despite they are difficult to maintain due to their need for constant irrigation and fertilization [35], the existing researches on VGS indicate that have great potential to improve environment and buildings [7].…”

“…VGS serve as a natural barrier where plants absorb a significant amount of solar radiation for their growth and biological functions and prevents solar excessive sunlight, which reduce outside temperature of the building and reduces sound levels, cool the respective internal spaces [7], and remove carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) from the atmosphere by carbon (C) uptake [8]. Therefore, VGS improve the building's efficiency, ecological and environmental and human health and also protect buildings from environmental stressors such as sun and acid rain [9][10].…”