Vertical planting tips and ideas

Does anyone incorporate a dedicated vertical stacking system into their landscape design?

Reading Permaculture A Designers Manual is giving me possibly too many ideas… The one most present in this topic is ‘stacking functions’

I’m considering something like:

Solar panels (power greenhouse/electric fence/well pump/sump pump)

Soil layer (honeyberries/gooseberries/currants below panels)

OR

Greenhouse below a row of solar panels on the north side of the roof, supported to reduce impact to the greenhouse

On top of -
Shipping container, (or similar reinforced structure for equipment storage etc), box culvert, ecology blocks, or similar

On top of -
Underground root cellar/mushroom log propagation tunnel

With in soil piping for geothermal circulation/climate control and possibly a water well or vertical heat pump/exchange loop

Again I ask out of an interest in conserving space but with a new space in mind.

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