On the Milano Città Stato website, an article by Beatrice Barazzetti describes the city of Milan in the first decade of the 2000s, in which major urban and architectural transformations created the image of today’s city, including the Bosco Verticale, a project by Boeri Studio (Stefano Boeri, Gianandrea Barreca, Giovanni La Varra).
From the former Varesine area, to the Pirelli-Bicocca neighborhood; from the redevelopment of the former Bovisa industrial area to City Life, the article paints a Milan that has changed face in 10 years.
Among these major transformations finds space in Porta Nuova, with the Isola neighborhood, where, in 2014 the Bosco Verticale, the first building designed as “a house for trees that also houses humans and birds,” was finished. The two towers, 80 and 112 m high, house a total of 800 trees (480 first- and second-size trees, 300 smaller ones), 15,000 perennials and/or ground cover plants and 5,000 shrubs. Vegetation equivalent to that of 30,000 square meters of forest and undergrowth. The result of three years of studies conducted together with a group of botanists and ethologists, the development of the plant component preceded the very building life of the complex. Starting in the summer of 2010, the plants intended to be planted on the towers were in fact pre-cultivated in a special botanical “nursery” – set up at the Peverelli nursery near Como – in order to accustom them to living in conditions similar to the final ones. A few years after its construction, the Bosco Verticale has thus created an outpost of spontaneous plant and wildlife recolonization in the city.
To read the full article: https://www.milanocittastato.it/milano/milanos-graffiti/i-duemila-il-decennio-magico-della-milano-che-mirava-al-cielo/