On the Design Mag website, an article by Veronica Esposito presents the Trudo Vertical Forest project by Stefano Boeri Architetti in Eindhoven, a ‘Vertical Forest open to all’, entirely dedicated to social housing.
The project consists of a 19-storey residential tower with 135 trees and 10,000 smaller shrubs and plants, all distributed on the four façades; a green project aiming at eco-sustainability in which, in order to achieve a significant reduction in construction costs, the prefabrication of the building’s main door, the rationalisation of some technical façade solutions and the optimisation of resources were used.
Designed to accommodate mainly low-income users – such as young professionals and students – the Eindhoven tower houses flats with low rents but high quality housing. The complex vision of “living” coexistence between man and other species is thus amplified in the project into a dual challenge: the possibility of combining the great challenge of the environmental crisis with the urgent need for affordable housing in contemporary cities.
By making the Bosco Verticale typology accessible to everyone, even 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.
To read the full article: https://www.designmag.it/articolo/arriva-il-bosco-verticale-aperto-a-tutti-il-progetto-unico/160973/