“The FIO growing wall project was born out of the desire to create a modular vertical garden to dress any private or public, indoor or outdoor space with art and nature. By connecting ceramic pots with a strong artistic expression each containing plants and flowers, this system provides walls with a new evocative and emotional experience.”

FIO growing wall

Ceramic is an essential element for many cultures in human history: its naturalness is part of the collective subconscious.

Indeed, ceramic has a peculiar haptic and tone, has a strong aesthetic impact and acquires character with time, and is a sustainable material.

“FIO was born out of the desire to create a vertical ceramic garden with a strong artistic expression, to bring art and nature into an indoor space”.

FIO growing wall is the result of an intense collaboration between expert ceramists, green engineers and architects who have been able to interpret the artistic project the right way while respecting its original characteristics.

Every single ceramic piece is made entirely by hand in my craft workshop based in Vienna.

The modular elements have been designed to address the need of combining greenery with interior design, and can be installed in any space, both private and public. The design solution underlying the system is the elementary and solid vertical overlapping of individual pieces which, interconnected with simple porcelain pipes, compose green walls which combine art and nature. Each element of the system is a work in itself, with its peculiar colour and texture.

The system is equipped with an automatic irrigation system that, by means of a pump, waters the plants at every height and channels the excess water into a tank installed at the base. Flexible, functional, practical and surprising, FIO growing wall is the most innovative expression of contemporary furniture. FIO is a flexible modular system with elements screwed directly to the wall.

The minimum recommended module consists of three pots, three connecting pipes and a water tank. However, the elements can be combined and multiplied to cover walls of any size.

-Ceramics

FIO is the result of manual and crafts work. Th processing of materials is fine and accurate.

FIO’s elements are moulded with different types of stoneware which, thanks to different mixtures, have different colours and textures: there is a wide choice of lighter to warmer shades, up to black. Further special mixtures are embellished by adding oxides of various metals to the stoneware.

The stoneware is pressed by hand into plaster moulds produced in the laboratory, dried by room temperature, then either engobed and single-fired at 1250° C or by biscuit firing at 980° C, glazed and re‑fired at 1250 °C.

– Engobes and enamels

Engobes and enamels are studied and tested in the laboratory for each of the elements.

These are not enamels available on the market: this makes FIO growing wall an absolutely unique, original and artistic project.

-Benefits:

The benefits brought by a vertical garden in an interior are many:

– it regulates air humidity;

– it reduces indoor temperature in summer

– it reduces fine dust

– it increases the concentration of oxygen

In addition, the presence of plants enhances mental wellbeing with a consequent positive effect on productivity.

Your FIO

FIO growing wall is a modular system easy to compose and install yourself.

The wall sculptures can be customised in materials and colours: the individual ceramic elements can be all the same or different from each other, so you can customize your own version in a unique work of art.

For us it is important to design FIO in close contact with the customer; it is therefore possible to request a consultation to define the quantity of modules to be combined or to design a site-specific installation, in order to best bring out the identity of a place.

An integral part of the process is also the choice of plants; FIO would not exist without the beauty of nature. We have divided with great care out plants in sections; together they will give life to the work.

Fiorenza Ceramics designs, produces and delivers the elements and, if necessary, organize their assembly, and provides advice to trusted gardeners for the choice of plants and their maintenance.