Literature Review - Book

Interior Gardens by Haike Falkenberg

This book focuses more on the aspect of interior gardens, but at some points also mentions vertical gardens when used both for outdoors and indoors. Vertical gardens are more likely to be used when there is a lack of horizontal space for a garden, thus the designers decide to go vertically instead. The book is split into 3 main sections and each section focuses on specific aspects of such gardens.

Typologies of interior gardens

In this section, Falkenberg illustrates a number of case studies regarding the types of interior and vertical gardens he mentions. Each case study is given with the context of the concept being analysed together with the plans, planting procedures, types of plants to be used and reasoning behind each decision making process.

General basic planning

This section aims more at explaining the general planning that goes into such gardens. It is referring to concepts in more general terms with images to explain the given example better. This section tackles the perception and principles of design as well as the creative approach to the concepts. The budget is the main factor that affects the decision making process since it establishes the choice of materials as well as how much technology is invested in the construction.

Materials and construction

Here Falkenberg goes into the technicalities of the materials needed as well as the construction requirements for specific intentions. He does not give a set of rules for one to follow to the letter but rather general guidelines for one to keep in mind when designing such interior gardens.

It is a very helpful book and helped me greatly to understand better the concept and ideologies behind such designs. More research is obviously needed to compile the long essay but this book provided a lot of information with regards to the subject and provided a path on what to research further.