ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN
Sydney, Australia
Project Details
- Architect
- Royal Botanic Garden
- Location
- Sydney, Australia
- Project Year
- 2016
- Size
- 5000 SQ FT
CLIENT: ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN
MAINTENANCE CO: ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN
INSTALLER: TPR GROUP
PLANTS:
The Calyx’s inaugural exhibition, Sweet Addiction, features the botanical story of chocolate, an exhibition where you can taste, touch, see, hear and smell and experience chocolate like never before.
Commissioned for the Royal Botanic Garden Sydney 200th Bicentenary celebrations, The Calyx, a new world-class center for horticulture, science and education, houses the largest living interior green wall in the Southern Hemisphere.
Constructed by TPR GROUP, a distributor of GSky Plant Systems Inc, the largest green wall developer in North America, the GSky Versa Wall™ measures a staggering 51 meters long by 6 meters high and comprises more than 18,000 plants, five independent irrigation systems with 5 independent stations per system, over 300 meters of irrigation line, and more than 2,000 irrigation drippers.