On Tuesday, April 18, during an institutional visit for Milan Design Week, the Queen of the Netherlands Máxima Zorreguieta meets Stefano Boeri at Bosco Verticale (Boeri Studio, 2014).
The theme of the meeting is to highlight the engagement and fertile collaboration between Italy and the Netherlands, including in the field of architecture.
The Queen is accompanied first through the Library of Trees park together with Dutch landscape architect Petra Blaisse, then with Stefano Boeri to the Bosco Verticale, a building-prototype of a new architecture of biodiversity, which places at the center no longer only humans, but the relationship between humans and other living species. The first example of this typology, in the Porta Nuova area, has since fostered the construction of two other examples: Trudo Vertical Forest, opened in 2021 in Eindhoven, the first example of a vertical forest dedicated to social housing, and Wonderwoods in Utrecht, currently under construction, a declination of the Vertical Forest, 105 meters high and capable of housing about 200 apartments of various types and for different users: mainly young professionals, workers and families. The tower will accommodate on its facades about 10,000 plants of 30 different species, equivalent to the vegetation of one hectare of forest: a real urban ecosystem, capable of producing about 41 tons of oxygen every year.
The news was reported by some national newspapers such as Il Correre della Sera, Ansa, La Repubblica, Milano Today, Milanodabere, Il Piccolo, Il Secolo XIX, La Stampa, Agi, Gazzetta della Lombardia, Il Sole 24 Ore, Notizie Today, World Magazine, Affari Italiani, Bild, Vanity Fair Spagna, Head Topics, Paratì, Paris Match, Sky Tg24