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extensive planting and moss walls.
To top it off, the entire office is 6
Green Star rated and Well Certified, a
building first for New Zealand.
When the client asked for a product
that flawlessly integrated the planting
into the space, we had never seen this
done before. The substrate needed
to be lightweight and therefore
could not be a soil-based product.
Therefore, we formed the floor
shapes out of a lightweight concrete
fabric to provide strength and the
desired natural form, while remaining
under the structural weight loading
limits of a solid base that could be
waterproof, so we fabricated each
base plate out of aluminium. The
entire concept is completely bespoke

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