In the magazine Casa e Jardim, Yara Guerra publish an article “Bosco Verticale, dez anos depois: o projeto e os impactos no entorno” (Vertical Forest, ten years after: the project and impacts on the area), a focus on the project of Boeri Studio and its impact ten years after its inauguration.
The article, which tells and describes the Vertical Forest complex in Porta Nuova district, in Milan, exposes the benefits that the Vertical Forest has brought to the area, such as the conversion of CO2 into oxygen, shading the residents, neutralization of the heat island effect and air filtration, among others.
The Vertical Forest is, in fact, the building-prototype of a new architecture of biodiversity, which places at the center no longer just humans, but the relationship between humans and other living species.
The first case built, in Milan’s Porta Nuova area, consists of two towers, 80 and 112 m high, which together house 800 trees, 15,000 perennials and/or ground cover plants and 5,000 shrubs. A vegetation equivalent to that of 30,000 square meters of forest and undergrowth, concentrated on 3,000 square meters of urban area.
The concept of the Bosco Verticale, that is, being “a house for trees that also houses humans and birds,” defines not only the urbanistic and technological features but also the architectural language and expressive qualities of the project.
To read the full article: https://revistacasaejardim.globo.com/um-so-planeta/noticia/2024/08/bosco-verticale-dez-anos-depois-o-projeto-e-os-impactos-no-entorno.ghtml