Panel-Modular Layered Wall System for Self-Supporting Spatial Structures
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing green wall systems lack a load-bearing structure, making it impossible to create self-supporting spatial structures with optimal conditions for vegetation, especially in difficult spatial and climatic conditions.
Innovation Solution
A panel-modular system that combines load-bearing construction with vegetation, featuring a layered wall structure composed of modules with a horizontal arrangement of panels and vegetative plants on a substrate layer, connected to form various load-bearing frames such as vertical, sloping, arched-barrel, spherical, cylindrical, and sloping cylindrical structures.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Strength
If existing green wall systems are used, then vegetation can be provided, but they lack a load-bearing structure making it impossible to create self-supporting spatial structures
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines the load-bearing structural function with the vegetation support function into a single integrated system. The modular panels serve dual purposes: providing structural strength to form self-supporting spatial structures while simultaneously supporting vegetation layers, thereby resolving the contradiction between load-bearing capacity and spatial adaptability.
Solution Approach 2:
The modular panels are designed with multi-functionality, serving as both structural load-bearing elements and vegetation carriers. Each panel can participate in forming various spatial structures (vertical walls, arches, spheres, cylinders) while maintaining its vegetation support capability, thus achieving both structural strength and spatial versatility.
2Adaptability or versatility
If modular systems with containers are used, then greater vegetation possibilities are offered, but the structure has bigger weight
Solution Approach 1:
The patent replaces heavy rigid containers with lightweight panel structures that support vegetation through attached substrates. The panels act as flexible carriers that can hold vegetation layers without the need for bulky containers, significantly reducing the overall structure weight while maintaining diverse vegetation possibilities.
Solution Approach 2:
The invention extracts the vegetation support function from heavy containers and integrates it directly onto the load-bearing panels. By separating the vegetation substrate from traditional container systems and attaching it to the panel surface, the system achieves lightweight construction while preserving all vegetation options.
3Object-affected harmful factors
If dense plant coverage is achieved, then climate comfort is improved, but the structure requires bigger weight and more resources
Solution Approach 1:
The modular panel system with integrated vegetation creates a self-sustaining ecosystem where plants provide climate comfort benefits (oxygenation, cooling, air purification) directly at the structure surface. The system serves itself by using the panel structure as both support and climate control mechanism, achieving dense vegetation coverage without proportionally increasing structural weight.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent employs composite construction combining load-bearing panels with vegetation substrates and plant layers. This composite approach allows dense plant coverage to be integrated into the structure itself rather than adding separate heavy elements, achieving climate comfort through the combined functional system.
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
The system provides climatic comfort by creating oxygenated, dust-free, cooled, and moist air, while enabling plant production in challenging conditions, offering a measurable impact on urban microclimates and reducing heat islands.
Implementation Method 1
characterized by oxygenated, fine dust free, cooled and moist air
Implementation Method 2
characterized by oxygenated, fine dust free, cooled and moist air
Implementation Method 3
characterized by oxygenated, fine dust free, cooled and moist air
Implementation Method 4
characterized by oxygenated, fine dust free, cooled and moist air
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AI summary
The panel-modular layered wall system for shaping spatial structures is characterised by the fact that: the arrangement of horizontal layers configured by means of joined sideways panels of various shapes, filled with the substrate, whose surfaces are planted with plants according to the principle of bipolarity, preferably using transparent or opaque panels, which are mounted on cantilevers with a variable supporting angle, always forms the horizontal arrangement of panels, placed a maximum of three (when with plants and more when without) on the flat or bent frame of the module in the shape of a rhombus, a rectangle and a trapezium made of a closed profile with a rectangular cross-section, where the frames of modules joined together along the perimeter by means of couplers form the vertical load-bearing frame, sloping load-bearing frame, arched-barrel load-bearing frame, spherical load-bearing frame, cylindrical load-bearing frame and sloping cylindrical load-bearing frame, which, together with the use of silos filled with the substrate, joining individual panels and layers, forms self-supporting layered wall structures in six variants, which can be configured with each other.