BauNetz, architectural news portal, publishes an article on Wonderwoods Vertical Forest, an enhanced experience of cohabitation between the city and a living nature.
An innovative variation of the Vertical Forest, 105 metres high and capable of housing about 200 flats of different typologies and for different users: mainly young professionals, workers and families.
The tower has approximately 50,000 plants of 30 different species, which is equivalent to the vegetation of 1 hectare of forest: a real urban ecosystem, which is able to produce about 41 tons of oxygen every year.
On the ground floor, connected with a sixth-level garden, is the Vertical Forest Hub: a centre for documentation and research on urban forestry in the world. The centre dialogues with the urban environment both through the ground floor that opens outwards and through vertical layout that is in harmony with the proportions of the surrounding urban block. Also enriched by office areas, fitness and yoga studios, bicycle parking and public and recreational spaces, the Wonderwoods Vertical Forest is proposed as Utrecht’s new wellness hub.
Like a Living Architecture, the Wonderwoods Vertical Forest has mutant facades in the colour composition and thickness of the biological masses, which will vary according to the seasons, the incidence of sunlight, and the growth and maintenance of the plants.
To read the full article: https://www.baunetzwissen.de/stadt–und-dachbegruenung/objekte/wohnen/wohn–und-geschaeftshaus-wonderwoods-utrecht-9601721