On Futura Sciences, a multidisciplinary news portal mainly dedicated to the topics of health, science, technology and the planet, an article by Alexandra Arquey is published entitled “Quatre étonnantes structures où pousse la verdure!“, (Four stunning structures where greenery grows) where the Bosco Verticale is featured.
The article on Futura Sciences, which explains how bioarchitecture responds to ecological challenges-such as reduced green space, air pollution, and urban heat islands-by combining greenery with new construction. Among the projects, there is the Bosco Verticale in Milan, designed by Boeri Studio.
The Bosco Verticale 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://www.futura-sciences.com/maison/actualites/architecture-quatre-etonnantes-structures-pousse-verdure-114326/#les-forets-verticales-a-milan-italie