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EDITORIAL
REVIEW BOARD
Dr. Reid Coffman, Co-Editor-in-Chief
(Kent State University)
Dr. Richard Sutton, Managing Editor
(University of Nebraska-Lincoln)
Dr. Brad Bass
(Environment Canada)
Dr. Robert Berghage
(Penn State University)
Dr. Jennifer Bousselot
(Iowa State University & Colorado State
University)
Dr. Maureen Connelly
(British Columbia Institute of Technology)
Dr. Nigel Dunnett
(University of Sheffield)
Bruce Dvorak, MLA
(Texas A&M University)
Dr. Tobias Emillson
(Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences)
Barry Lehrman, MArch/MLA
(California State Polytechnic
University, Pomona)
Dr. J. Scott MacIvor
(University of Toronto)
Thomas O'Connor, MSE
(US Environmental Protection Agency)
Dr. Bill Retzlaff
(Southern Illinois University Edwardsville)
Dr. Bradley Rowe
(Michigan State University)
Virginia Russell, GRP, MLA
(University of Cincinnati)
Dr. Sabina Shaikh
(University of Chicago)
Dr. David Tilley
(University of Maryland)
Dr. Youbin Zheng
(University of Guelph)

For questions about joining the
editorial review board, submitting
manuscripts, contact Dr. Reid Coffman
at rcoffma4@kent.edu or Dr. Richard
Sutton at rsutton1@unl.edu

The Journal of Living Architecture (JLIV) is the official, peer-reviewed journal of Green
Infrastructure Foundation. The JLIV is written, reviewed, and edited by living architecture research professionals, sharing with their colleagues: successful educational applications, original research findings, scholarly opinions, educational resources and challenges
on issues of critical importance to living architecture professionals and educators. The
JLIV is published exclusively on the Living Architecture Monitor magazine website. The
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full paper online.

Volume 4 Number 2 Pages 1-15, 2017

DEPLOYING LIVING WALLS AS KINETIC FACADES

Leann Andrews, Nancy Rottle, University of Washington Green Futures Lab, University of Washington,
United States
ABSTRACT
This paper explores ideas for integrating moveable exterior living walls with the facades of
high-rise buildings to enhance urban ecosystems while contributing opportunities for
personal interaction with the natural world. Rethinking the typical static nature of living
walls, kinetic green walls convey a dynamic aesthetic that provides multiple potential
benefits including habitat, passive cooling and opportunity for personal expressions in
dense urban environments. This article proposes prototypes of kinetic green walls and
suggests their expanded application to the ultra-urban built environment. It offers a
preliminary typology, presents a moveable green wall system prototype installed in an
urban university setting in Seattle, and demonstrates how the kinetic qualities afford
flexible operational, educational, and aesthetic functions. Reflecting upon the challenges
and solutions for the built project, this article identifies essential considerations for
designing and constructing moveable living walls, illustrated through photographs,
construction details and diagrams of new kinetic living wall applications.

Volume 4 Number 2 Pages 16-32, 2017

DEPLOYING SHIPPING CONTAINERS FOR INNOVATIVE LIVING
ARCHITECTURE DESIGN EDUCATION

Reid Coffman, Kent State University; Lee Fithian, University of Oklahoma; Edwin Adkins, Kennesaw State University

ABSTRACT
Academic training and investigation for innovative living architecture demands
educational settings be conceptual, experiential, and cost effective. To assist, we
advance the idea that shipping containers offer an acceptable setting for faculty and
students investigating kinetic forms of living architecture and opportunities for
reflective thinking. Described here are three separate, uncoordinated academic
engagements exploring moving, sliding and mobile green roofs and walls on shipping
containers that occured in the design studio, field laboratory, and public setting.
When collectively viewed, the outcomes of the projects indicate a positive use of
shipping containers as conceptual and participatory spaces for living architecture
education and innovation.
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