The YesMilano website, focused on the Lombard city, devotes an article to Boeri Studio’s Bosco Verticale, including, in addition to a description of the project, 4 facts about maintenance, awards and construction.
The Bosco Verticale in Milan, inaugurated in 2014 in the Porta Nuova neighborhood, now represents one of the city’s most prestigious symbols and a new urban planning model of integrating living nature into architectural design.
Rather than just a simple architectural object therefore, the presence of the plant component means that the Vertical Forest is more akin to a set of processes – partly natural, partly man-managed – that accompany the life and growth of the inhabited organism over time. Perhaps the most unique component of this highly developed system, now widespread in urban imagery, is that of the “Flying Gardeners”, a specialized team of arborists-climbers who, using mountaineering techniques, descend from the roof of the buildings once a year to carry out pruning while checking the state of the plants in addition to their eventual removal or substitution. All the maintenance and greening operations are in fact managed at the condominium level in order to maintain control of the anthropic-vegetal balance. Irrigation is also centralized: the needs of the plants are monitored by a digitally and remotely controlled installation while the necessary water is largely drawn from filtered effluent from the towers. All these solutions overcome the still essentially anthropocentric and technical concept of “sustainability” while moving in the direction of a new biological diversity. A few years after its construction, the Vertical Forest has given birth to a habitat colonized by numerous animal species (including about 1,600 specimens of birds and butterflies), establishing an outpost of spontaneous flora and fauna recolonization in the city.
To read the full article: https://www.yesmilano.it/esplora/luoghi/bosco-verticale