Bentley Bay
South Beach, Florida – USA
South Beach, Florida – USA
Right on the shore of Biscayne Bay on the approach to South Beach, you will find two 25-story condominium towers, Bentley Bay, rise in sail-like elegance.
To provide an initial impact as a counterpoint to the strong horizontal lines of the towers, like stripes on sails, the architects designed a faux-bamboo effect with white-painted steel pipes arranged in random, varied and slightly off-vertical placement. The bamboo segmented joints are mimicked by the pipe braces. These pipes also double in appearance as the trunks of palms, whose fronds of real palm trees wave above the roof of the garage structure. The total effect is pleasing and unique.
Behind the “bamboo”, the green wall rises from the first level of the garage to the roof of the third level in continuous Webnet Wire Mesh
With naturally climbing plants rooted at the base of the structure, the three-wall wire mesh ( will provide an easily gripped grid on which the vines will rise to maturity as a literal, natural green wall through which fresh air will still breeze, but will offer an interior of subtle green shade to dampen the sometimes harsh Florida sunlight and temperature.
The mesh is anchored at the first level and at every intervening level to the roof of the third level. Otherwise, the mesh is free to flex with the breeze to emphasize this living green wall.
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