abc News publishes an article by Kim Cook titled Architects are bringing nature home by making trees part of the plan, focusing on examples of architecture that integrate living nature into their design, citing Milan’s Bosco Verticale (Boeri Studio) as a case study.
Highlighting the Trudo Vertical Forest in Eindhoven, dedicated entirely to social housing, the article places the two projects by Stefano Boeri Architetti within a context of best practices in biophilic and sustainable architecture.
The first built example, located in Milan’s Porta Nuova district, consists of two towers, 80 and 112 meters tall, which collectively host 800 trees (480 large and medium-sized trees, 300 smaller ones, 15,000 perennial or ground-covering plants, and 5,000 shrubs). This vegetation is equivalent to 30,000 square meters of forest and undergrowth, condensed onto 3,000 square meters of urban surface.
The new Vertical Forests, either built or under construction, represent significant advancements in various directions, refining and adapting the typology: reducing costs with sustainable and innovative technological solutions, as in Eindhoven; or radically transforming the urban landscape and public expectations for a sustainable city in areas where pollution is a major concern, such as Huanggang, China; or adapting to a different climatic context, as in Egypt.
Read the full article here: https://abcnews.go.com/Lifestyle/wireStory/architects-bringing-nature-home-making-trees-part-plan-117695280