Trudo Vertical Forest, the first example of a vertical forest entirely in social housing, designed by Stefano Boeri Architetti in the city of Eindhoven, has won the Global Future Design Award 2023, organised by APR, a world-leading architecture press.
The international jury awarded the project for its innovative qualities of integrating living nature, making the Vertical Forest typology accessible to all, even to low-income tenants.
The project demonstrates how living in contact with trees and greenery is not an exclusive prerogative, but can indeed become a viable choice for citizens with very different economic backgrounds. Trudo Vertical Forest succeeds in guaranteeing high quality, due to the flexibility of the interior spaces and their relationship with open spaces, in a building with a significantly reduced construction cost. The project does not only change the urban landscape, but aims to define new housing standards for social housing and thus respond to environmental and housing issues.
Inaugurated in 2021 as part of the urban renewal plan for ‘Strijp-S’. , Trudo Vertical Forest accommodates 125 social housing units on 19 floors, flexible to meet future amalgamation needs and thus defining new housing standards for the sector, as well as 135 trees of various species, plus approximately 5,200 smaller shrubs and plants and other vegetation, totalling approximately 8,500 plants.
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