Patent ID: 7818919
Filing Date: 2010-10-26
Classification: A01G,Y02P

Abstract:
1. A botanically studded edifice constructed so as to comprise one or more circumferential walls comprising an exterior side and an interior side, each further comprising one or more concrete planter-blocks, each block comprising as its dimensional aspects length, height and width; and further, as reference bearings, a face, a backside, an open top, a bottom and two opposing sides, all of which reference bearings dispose a number of corners about the planter-block's periphery; wherein a first portion of the planter-block is disposed toward its backside and the wall's interior side, and a second portion is disposed toward the block's face and the wall's exterior side and comprises a botanical well configured as a cavity extending from the planter-block's top to a level proximate its bottom, to retain and carry one or more growing plants, soil as a supportive and nurturing medium for the plant's growth and drainage means to allow the flow of water; the second portion of the planter-block configured so as to dispose all or a portion of its face outward in protrusion such that, when disposed within the wall, a portion of the open top thereof is cantilevered outward in exposure to sunlight at the wall's exterior side; the planter blocks further comprising length and height dimentionally matching that of a standardized prior art concrete construction block and one or more reinforcement alignment hollows disposed in the first portion thereof from the block's top to a point proximate its bottom, wherein the alignment hollows are narrowed in front-to-back dimension from those of prior art to allow additional space for the planter-block's second portion; wherein the face of the planter-block is upwardly tapered outward such that the distance of the planter-block's to from its face to the backside thereof is greater than at its bottom; the planter-block further comprising an emergence cleft disposed generally at the longitudinal midpoint of the to of the block's face and configured as a cutout of the to portion of the face thereat, whereby plants within the botanical well are provided additional space for upward extension of their growth; wherein each planter-block is disposed so as to be plumb with every planter-block of equal size which is part of the wall below it; wherein at least one of the drainage means comprises a vertical interior duct disposed through the bottom of the block's botanical well to allow fluvial outflow therefrom; wherein the plants, by reason of the chemistry of their growth upon receiving sunlight and moisture through the exposed portion of the open top of the planter-block and consequent evaporative phenomena from their leaves, radiate into the surrounding atmosphere unwanted heat otherwise produced within and retained by the edifice.