The parking structure behind The Shops at College Park on the University of Texas – Arlington campus showcases slender Living Screens which rise 5 stories tall. The largest freestanding span is 20 feet, floor-to-floor. In a short time span, the vines have already begun to reach the top!
For a private residence in metro District of Columbia, post-mounted Living Screen wraps the property and steps along the site’s sloping contours.
Living Screen® surrounds a small, grassy amphitheater and includes custom gates. The radius was achieved through custom post mounts that allowed for the arc without curving each panel.
Living Screen® serves as infill in exterior brick wall openings and as a barrier (with perforated plate on one side) at service enclosures at this university campus in Philadelphia. TWG provided panels in varying sizes to match the existing dimensions and posts for mounting the perimeter fencing.
A multi-use structure located in Minneapolis’ Uptown district, the Mozaic Building includes office space, restaurants, a large public plaza and six levels of parking. TWG’s Living Screen® provides a sixty foot tall growing surface divided into three tiers. At over one hundred feet long, it is currently the largest green façade in the state of Minnesota.
Our screens are traditionally used for sifting and screening a variety of media. Heavy industrial screens for sand and gravel shaker screens, food processing screens for rice or quinoa, or pharmaceutical processing, even fish baskets for large scale freezers in Alaska.
Living Screen® provides a secure perimeter around a courtyard and garden space for this innovative project in Chicago, Illinois. Post-mounted panels and gates enclose an area that is used for educational purposes, as residents are taught how to cultivate crops in a space that was formerly an asphalt parking lot. As climbing plants grow to maturity, leaves will buffer the sight and sound of passing vehicular traffic.
138 Living Screen® panels are installed on two facades of this six-story parking facility in San Antonio, Texas. Many of the panels measure 9’ by 21’; to complete the installation, some screens are mounted above one another to give the illusion on a single panel spanning from ground to parapet. This “stacked” assembly will allow for well-tended climbing vines to extend the entire height of the building – a Texas-sized […]
This parking structure’s challenging site – located on a steep hillside along a busy boulevard and fronting an urban park – made for the type of project TWG embraces. The architectural firm’s intent was to create a parking facility that, by design, has as little visual impact on its surroundings as possible. One method for achieving this goal is the extensive use of TWG’s Living Screen® in order to soften […]
TWG provided stock welded wire panels that were welded by the installer to enable a match to the arcing structural form of this steel pedestrian/cycling bridge. Panels were galvanized prior to installation. The span above busy McLoughlin Boulevard allows the Springwater Corridor path to continue from urban neighborhoods through natural wetlands and green spaces.
Located on Capitol Hill, this branch of Seattle’s Public Library is an urban building, but a stainless steel living trellis mounted to the façade wraps the perimeter with evergreen and deciduous vines and creates a bold entry, evocative of a ship’s prow. Maturing plants have continued to soften the brick facades; exterior walls are illuminated at night behind a veil of greenery. The vertical garden extends inside, flanking a two-story […]
The signage outside of this award-winning Willamette Valley winery displays an impressive vertical wall, known for centuries as a “gabion”. In this example, tons of local river rock are retained inside a cage of TWG’s welded wire and plate steel with dramatic effect.
A pedestrian bridge connecting a transit center to nearby neighborhoods, the design is an abstract “fish” that spans the Interstate 205 corridor. Special shapes of galvanized welded wire were created by TWG to fit the bridge’s unique configuration.
471 framed and powder coated panels are applied to all four facades of this parking facility. The system devised is a modification of standard Living Screen®, with wire mesh on one face to promote climbing plant growth and perforated plate on the opposite face to provide visual interest and security. The perforated pattern (Matrix) was specially designed by the Architect in collaboration with TWG’s Engineering team; the seemingly random array […]
At this multi-story parking structure, Dual Secure® panels fill large openings between structural columns and floors. The 3″ depth of the powdercoated welded wire panels adds strength and allows for greater spans to be achieved with fewer bracket connections. Climbing plant growth is not a requirement at this installation, therefore the selection of Dual Secure over the similar Living Screen® system is appropriate.
Curving footpaths meander through 9-acres of grass fields and wooded wetlands in this suburban neighborhood green space. TWG supplied several dozen welded wire panels as barriers along the wooden bridges, each powdercoated to blend in with the natural surroundings. Custom mounts were created for attachment to the thick wooden pilings.
Exterior signage at one of the largest shopping centers in the state of Oregon includes TWG-provided panels of perforated metal as a backdrop. Other applications include various forms of woven wire sunshading: planes that extend horizontally above storefront windows and decorative angled screens that cast long shadows across stucco facades. Welded wire was also used in way-finding applications on the mall site.
A residential fence in Chicago, Illinois, that uses both slotted perforated plate and welded wire to create a surround of Living Screen®. In the years since the installation, ivy growth has matured and intertwined inside the screen’s framework. The post-mounted design incorporates a hinged gate and custom mail slot. TWG provided both the screens and the posts.
