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Jim Piper Centre
Ground floor, 12 Wally’s Walk
Macquarie University 2109

Be immersed in greenery

Over time, our vertical gardens will grow into lush and vibrant living displays, so visitors walking through the centre will be immersed in greenery.

These tall plant columns are like green skyscrapers for plants, reaching up through the centre toward the filtered sunlight above. As the plants grow and spread over time, each column will host a living blanket of leaves, flowers, and cascading greenery. These living structures are an example of sustainable urban design – improving air quality, regulating humidity, and creating a biophilic connection between visitors and nature. As the plants mature and spread, they transform the architectural space into a dynamic, ever-changing green environment.

About the display:

These purpose-built columns are designed to host a vertical growing system with integrated irrigation systems that maximise green space inside a minimal footprint, showing how we can include nature in our built environments.