Urban Greening

Adds mature integrated planting — free planters with multi-stem trees, climbing vegetation on a portion of the facade, mid-level shrub planters along edges — to a mineral courtyard or hardscape space. The existing paving stays as the substrate; greening is partial, urban, and natural-looking, never a manicured ornamental bed. Building geometry, surrounding facades, openings and circulation footprint are preserved exactly. Vegetation receives the same sun direction as the architecture, with sub-canopy shadows and dappled patterns on the paving. An optional vegetation reference steers the species mix; without one, the model defaults to a temperate-climate palette appropriate to a residential courtyard. Useful for property managers and condominium boards costing a courtyard greening proposal — the abstract budget line becomes a concrete photograph of the proposed end state.

A property manager presents a courtyard greening proposal to co-owners after a year of complaints about the heat-island effect of the bare mineral surface. The costed proposal includes three large planters with multi-stem trees, a trellis with climbing vegetation on the south wall, and edge-bed plantings. The numbers exist; the visual does not. The manager runs the courtyard photo through Urban Greening with a similar greened-courtyard reference, gets a photograph of the proposed end state, and the AGM motion passes.