Plants Climbing the Building: Blurring the Boundaries

A building taken over by plants. Climbing plants grow from the ground up the walls and roof edges, moss grows in the stone crevices and concrete recesses on the shaded side, and wild grasses on the roof lean in the same direction in the wind; in several places, plants have grown into the edges of openings. The building does not resist this; its materials and shape allow plants to attach. Time is visible. Avoid: making the building surface smooth so plants cannot attach, using neatly trimmed decorative greenery, confining plants to defined planters, depicting the building in a clean, newly completed state.

Translated from Chinese by AI.

一棟被植物接手的建築。攀緣植物從地面爬上牆面與屋頂的邊緣,苔蘚長在陰面的石縫與混凝土的凹處,屋頂的野草在風裡倒向同一邊;有幾處植物已經長進開口的邊緣。建築沒有抵抗這件事,它的材料與形狀讓植物可以附著。時間看得出來。避免:把建築表面做得光滑讓植物無法附著、使用修剪整齊的裝飾性綠化、讓植物被限制在明確的花台裡、把建築畫成剛完工的乾淨狀態。