ChartierDalix

The jury recognizes in this project a highly promising technical exploration and refusal of the conventional green wall systems, which often remain dependent on synthetic materials, intensive irrigation, and short-term ornamental performance. In contrast, the wall developed by ChartierDalix articulates a system that is both more resource-efficient and more attuned to local ecological conditions. It eliminates the dependence on plastic and synthetic media, reduces infrastructural complexity, and minimizes the continuous consumption of energy and water that typifies commercial vertical greening solutions.

Yet its significance lies not only in these optimizations. ChartierDalix’s approach constitutes a deeper, more radical reorientation: it does not merely refine the existing paradigm but challenges its underlying premises. Rather than fabricating a controlled vegetal surface, the system establishes conditions for life to self-organize—allowing native and site-adapted species to colonize, stabilize, and evolve over time. In doing so, the wall ceases to function as a decorative skin and becomes an operative ecological interface—an inhabited vertical ground.

As part of its participation in the architecture and landscape biennale of Versailles, the Greater Paris Metropolis (Métropole du Grand Paris) presents an exceptional architectural work and landscape design, unveiling a pavilion which constitutes the first experience of a building based on the principle of a free standing biodiverse wall carried out by ChartierDalix. Designed […]