Indian Creek Residence

OVERVIEW

3 Indian Creek is a 10-bedroom, 14-bathroom, 30,000-square-foot private home located on Miami’s exclusive Indian Creek Island. Designed by famed architect Renee Gonzalez, the home was inspired by Miami’s natural surrounding elements. The home’s 1,475-square-feet Green Wall swirls in a curvilinear design and is located in the home’s courtyard area. The jungle-like walls were included in the Gonzalez’s design to avoid excessive landscaping on the floor and not interfere with walk ways or spacious views from the inside and outside of the home. The green wall features over 17,000 tropical salt-tolerant plants in six green wall sections on three separate walls.

Location	3 Indian Creek Rd, Indian Creek Island, FL
Client	Felix Cohen and Shlomi Alexander
Architect / Interior Designer	Renee Gonzalez Architect
Landscape Architect	None
Green Wall Designer(s)	Debbie Kotalic
General Contractor	None
Green Wall Contractor	GSky Plant Systems Inc.
Grower	Michaels Nursery
Maintenance Contractor	Guardian Landscape
Date Installed	November 2010
Product Type	Pro Wall System
Total Size	1,475 Sq Ft
Climate	USDA Climate Zone 10b
Plants	Asiatic Minima Jasmine, Wart Fern, Springerii fern, Silver Satin Pothos, Brazil Philodendron, Burle Marx Philodendron, Macho Fern

THE PROCESS The Green Walls are installed on three wall in the court yard of the home. This made the installation challenging as we had to to continually move from surface to surface to install around several windows and openings. The entire installation took 21 days to complete.

MAINTENANCE Maintenance is performed with a window washing lift system from the roof down. This is because there is a pool system below the Green Walls which makes it impossible to put a lift or ladder below the wall to perform maintenance.

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