// raw aggregate meets living greenery — a design system
Drawn from poured concrete, exposed aggregate, and the tropical plants that soften brutalist interiors. Greys provide structure; greens bring life.
Space Grotesk for headings and body brings geometric industrial clarity. Space Mono supplies the technical, utilitarian detail layer.
Brutalist architecture values raw materials and structural honesty. When plants colonize these concrete surfaces, the tension between the engineered and the organic produces something unexpectedly beautiful. This design system captures that interplay.
FIG. 04 — Cross-section of reinforced concrete slab with integrated planter channels, showing root penetration through expansion joints.
A power-of-two scale rooted in a 4px base unit. Like formwork modules, each step doubles the previous.
Heavy borders and hard shadows. Like concrete blocks stacked with purpose. The leaf marker on primary actions signals growth.
Inputs sit in inset shadows, as if cast into the concrete surface. Focus states glow green, like bioluminescence through cracks.
Content blocks like concrete modules — stacked, rigid, honest. Plants peek from the edges, softening the brutality.
A tropical oasis hidden inside London's most famous brutalist complex. Over 2,000 species of plants thrive among raw concrete.
Architecture PlantsHydroponic systems mounted directly onto board-formed concrete facades. The roots find their way through every crack.
Green InfrastructureExposed aggregate finishes require careful selection of stone size, color, and distribution. The surface tells the story of what lies within.
Material TechnicalNotifications marked with colored rebar strips along the left edge. Urgent messages read like site safety notices.
Technical specifications rendered in monospace, like construction documents on dark concrete.
// Brutalist Planter Configuration
const planter = {
material: 'board-formed-concrete',
aggregate: {
type: 'exposed',
size: '12mm-river-gravel',
color: 'warm-grey'
},
plants: [
{ species: 'Monstera deliciosa', zone: 'atrium' },
{ species: 'Epipremnum aureum', zone: 'wall-cascade' },
{ species: 'Nephrolepis exaltata', zone: 'shadow-pocket' }
],
drainage: true,
waterproofMembrane: 'class-III'
};