THE PLAN Award, an annual international award for excellence in architecture, interior design and urban planning, nominates in the Mixed Use category the Wonderwoods Vertical Forest project, developed by Stefano Boeri Architetti and MVSA Architects.
The Wonderwoods project aims to create an advanced experience of cohabitation between city and living nature in the centre of Utrecht as part of the new Healthy Urban Quarter. The intervention is part of a new variation of the Vertical Forest, 105 meters high and able to accommodate about 200 apartments of various types for different users: mainly young professionals, manual workers and families.
The facades of the tower will host about 50,000 plants from 30 different species, equivalent to one hectare of forest vegetation resulting in a genuine urban ecosystem capable of producing about 41 tons of oxygen each year.
On the ground floor and connected to a garden on the sixth floor is the Vertical Forest Hub: a centre for documentation and research into urban forestation worldwide. An authentic smart building, the complex communicates with the urban environment both through a ground floor open to the outside and through a vertical development that is in harmony with the proportions of the surrounding urban block. Also enriched with office areas, spaces for fitness and yoga, bicycle parking and public and recreational spaces, the Wonderwoods Vertical Forest is designed as the new wellness hub in Utrecht.
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