Lost House In Paris

Can’t decide on a green roof or a vertical garden? No problem, just do both!

We’ve seen some interesting living walls and green roofs, but this goes beyond these applications and into the realm of being a complete living house.  Referred to as the Lost in Paris House, the structure took five years to complete and was designed by R&Sie architects.

What makes the house’s exterior green skin so unique is that it is a ‘living’ wall based on a hydroponics system.

The unique living envelope comprises 1200 ferns (or Dryopteris filix-mas) in a hydroponic system – the plants are not sustained by soil but by a chemical mixture of bacteria, nutrients, and rainwater.

Beneath the living skin is a 1400 square foot (130 square meter) home made of concrete and covered in a thin plastic shell and polyurethane coat for insulation.

Taking nearly five years to build, this home for 4 is always getting attention. Architect Francois Roche explains it as “a game of attraction and repulsion” where passersby may be inspired or frightened, and of course wary of the looming ‘urban witch.’

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