The first-ever ceramic company to be certified in energy management, Ceracasa is marketing a revolutionary system of 1 square meter tiles to build air-cleaning, plant-bearing, vertical garden walls that could make a serious dent in pollution – that it will showcase at this year’s Solar Decathlon Europe to be held in Madrid.
Developed in conjunction with Maqla Architects and the Azahar Group (“we work for a better present and a bearable future” ) the company has created two kinds of tile that work in conjunction to actually suck up pollution.
The green plant-able tile is the Lifewall® tile. This is a porous ceramic tile that you can actually grow greenery in. These are drip irrigation-ready tiles into which seeds can be inserted and grown to create a green wall.
To work with it, and to actually make and feed fertilizer to the green tile; the ivory one is the Bionictile®, which has the astounding ability – for a ceramic tile – of turning pollutants into harmless nitrates.