Preserved moss & preserved folia walls are the perfect design medium for creating a natural sense of place in nearly every indoor space. They are designed and built by Aquatopia’s team of artisans and craftspeople. They use a wide variety of colourful natural moss, lichen, fern, and plant varieties, all of which have been preserved using a safe, inert glycol solution so that they retain the look and feel of live vegetation.
These moss & folia walls require no watering, no sunlight, and no regular maintenance, making them a perfect design solution for vertical spaces with low-light conditions like boardrooms, hallways, washrooms, reception areas, and windowless rooms. All preserved plants used in our biophilic designs are sustainably sourced and harvested, and they retain their distinctive beauty for decades. Preserved moss & folia displays offer the best of both worlds, providing nearly all of the biophilic benefits of living walls with a fraction of the obligation.
Benefits
Most of us could benefit from more connectivity with nature. However, when living and working in a modern urban environment, access to untouched natural spaces can also be difficult to come by. Those who spend most of their time in cities can find that they go days at a time without coming into contact with nature. This ignoble indictment of urban development denies many of us access to one of the planet's most powerful wellsprings of positive mental health and cognitive benefits.
Dr. Ulrich is Professor of Architecture at the Center for Healthcare Building Research at Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden. He has done extensive research on the benefits of indoor plants and found that simply looking at environments dominated by green plants, even if they were preserved, elevated positive feelings such as pleasantness and calmness and reduced negative feelings such as fear, anger, and sadness. Blood pressure, heart activity, muscle tension and brain activity could all be improved by viewing plants for as little as 3 to 5 minutes at a time. Simply being in the presence of a preserved moss & folia wall acts like a natural biofeedback allowing involuntary body functions to self-soothe and heal.
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Design
The most popular design themes for moss & folia walls center around emulating the deep, rich earth tones of moss and fern covered forest floors, bringing the peaceful, healing properties of nature indoors. Each and every work of art is truly unique, designed and crafted with thoughtfulness to coax the viewer into experiencing their innate tendency to seek connections with nature.
Moss Wall Design Tool
The following preserved moss & folia species will work well for any indoor design.
Cladonia rangiferina
Tillandsia usneoides
Hypnum cupressiforme
Dicranum scoparium
Leucobryum glaucum
Various Species
Eurhynchium striatum
Deconica montana
Sphagnum acutifolioides
Letharia vulpina
Various Species
Arctostaphylos manzanita
Azalea Roots
Vitis vinifera
Affordability
Preserved moss & folia walls and displays are one of the most affordable ways to develop a natural, positive sense of place in any indoor space. While the upfront design and installation costs are typically more than say, potted office plants, these green gems require little to no maintenance, saving hundreds, even thousands of dollars in ongoing care. Preserved moss & folia walls represent the biggest design value for your dollar when analysing cost vs benefits. Moreover, they are nearly always portable, meaning if a company expands, moves, or redesigns their workplace, preserved moss & folia walls and displays can be moved to their new location as easily as framed artwork. There’s a good reason why these biophilic compositions are the #1 interiorscape choice of designers today.