Greenskin.moovellab.com Website Review

Los Angeles and the federal state of Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany have one thing in common. The number of registered cars is about 7,000,000. As*uming that one car has a surface area of about 5 square meters, there are circa 35 square kilometers of sheet metal driving around. That's enough to cover the entire inner city of Stuttgart or half of Hollywood or 3,500 football fields in metal. Imagine this area covered by green space! Our goal is to explore several aspects of greened cars. Speculative design prototypes give us the chance to debate various different futures, raising what if questions. For greenskin it was important to use tangible ideas and mix them up with the challenges we currently face in our urban mobility. Continuing this train of thought, what would happen if organisations with more than one vehicle implemented greenskin? Could our mobility solution at least negate small portions of its external cost? Revaluing public open spaces through greenery, countering the urban heat island effect, improving air and water quality, increasing biodiversity and balancing the carbon footprint, to name but a few. It's not easy to attach plants to series production cars. At this point creativity and craftsmanship are asked for, to create a prototype for greened cars. Several new layers are attached to the vehicle, including adhesive, woven and grown layers. The plants are sown on an adhesive textile layer through a plastic mesh. This mesh was included during the sprouting process of the plants. The roots are interwoven with both net and sediment, and they are the biological base of greenskin. greenskin is based on succulent plants, from the family of sedum. One square meter of sedum plants has an annual carbon sequestration of 1,4 kg CO2. The surface of our prototype is about 5 square meters which creates a yearly potential conversion of 7kg carbon dioxide. Other external effects that urban greenery can counter are improving air by binding particulate matter, improving water quality and countering the