Slatted Grating Green Wall Element for Uniform Plant Growth
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing greenable wall elements face challenges in stability and uniform plant growth due to limited structural integrity and patchy growth patterns caused by protrusions, which affect their load-bearing capacity and aesthetic appeal.
Innovation Solution
A greenable wall element featuring a slatted grating formed from mutually crossing bars, with one group oriented vertically or diagonally and another group horizontally, providing planting openings bounded by adjacent bars, and optionally reinforced with obliquely angled horizontal bars and a frame for enhanced stability and uniform growth.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If a metal sheet with wave-shaped protrusions is used to create planting openings, then plants can grow through the protrusions, but the structural stability and load-bearing capacity of the wall element is limited and difficult to calculate
Solution Approach 1:
The wall element is divided into modular components: a stable base structure (walls and posts) and separate planting elements (grating with openings). This segmentation allows the base structure to provide stability while the grating provides plant growth functionality, resolving the contradiction between structural integrity and planting capability.
Solution Approach 2:
The invention combines different materials and structures: a rigid base structure (metal sheet or concrete) with a separate grating element (metal or plastic). This composite approach allows each component to optimize its function - the base provides stability while the grating provides planting openings, achieving both structural integrity and plant growth capability.
2Adaptability or versatility
If wave-shaped protrusions are used for planting openings, then plants can grow through them, but the growth pattern becomes patchy rather than uniform
Solution Approach 1:
The grating is designed with uniformly distributed openings of consistent size and shape across the entire surface. Each local area has the same planting characteristics, ensuring uniform plant growth density and appearance, unlike the wave-shaped protrusions that create irregular growth patterns.
Solution Approach 2:
The planting openings in the grating are homogeneous in size, shape, and distribution. This uniformity ensures that plants grow evenly across the wall surface, creating a consistent aesthetic appearance and uniform green coverage, resolving the patchy growth issue.
3Adaptability or versatility
If rows of protrusions are arranged offset by half a period to form waves, then planting is enabled, but the stability of the metal sheet front wall is limited and calculable only with difficulty
Solution Approach 1:
The planting functionality is segmented into a separate grating component rather than being integrated into the wall structure itself. This allows the wall to maintain simple, calculable geometry for stability analysis while the grating handles the planting function with its regular pattern of openings.
Solution Approach 2:
Instead of creating complex wave-shaped protrusions directly on the wall, the invention uses a replicated grating pattern with uniform openings. This copying approach simplifies the structural geometry to regular, calculable forms while maintaining the planting function through the replicated opening pattern.
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AI summary
A greenable wall element with at least one wall component oriented in the vertical direction or in the diagonal direction. The wall component delimits a cavity of the wall element is fillable with planting substrate, and has a multiplicity of plant openings through which plants rooting in the plant substrate can grow onto the side of the wall element directed away from the plant substrate. The at least one wall component has, at least in a subregion, a slatted grating formed from crossing groups of bars, of which a first group of spaced-apart parallel bars is oriented in the vertical or diagonal direction and of which a second group of spaced-apart parallel bars is oriented in the horizontal direction, and the plant openings are each bounded by adjacent horizontal and vertical or diagonal bars.