米兰“垂直森林”绿色住宅大楼

Architect：Stefano Boeri Architetti

Location：Milan, Italy; | ;

Project Year：2014

Category：Apartments

Stories By：Stefano Boeri Architetti;Linea Light Group;Maciek Jeżyk Fotografia

Vertical Forest is a model for a sustainable residential building, a project for metropolitan reforestation that contributes to the regeneration of the environment and urban biodiversity without the implication of expanding the city upon the territory. It is a model of vertical densification of nature within the city that operates in relation to policies for reforestation and naturalization of large urban and metropolitan borders. The first example of the Vertical Forest composed of two residential towers of 110 and 76 m height, will be realized in the centre of Milan, on the edge of the Isola neighbourhood, and will host 900 trees (each measuring 3, 6 or 9 meters tall) and over 2000 plants from a wide range of shrubs and floral plants that are distributed in relation to the façade’s position to towards the sun. On flat land, each Vertical forest equals, in amount of trees, an area equal o 7000 m2 of forest. In terms of urban densification the equivalent of an area of single family dwellings of nearly 75.000 m2. The vegetal system of the Vertical Forest aids in the construction of a microclimate, produces humidity, absorbs CO2 and dust particles and produces oxygen.

Inaugurated in October 2014, Bosco Verticale is an example of sustainable residential building and a project of city reforestation that contributes to regenerate the environment and metropolitan biodiversity, thus reducing the negative effects of uncontrolled urban expansion on the surrounding area. The two 110- and 76-m tall residential towers feature 900 trees (each of them is three-, six-, or nine-metre tall) and over 2,000 plants including a wide range of bushes and flowering plants distributed on the facades of the two buildings according to the exposure to sunlight. The buildings, covered in terraced gardens, were designed so as to comply with sustainability criteria while ensuring utmost comfort to dwellers.

Boeri’s project has provided a concrete answer to the requalification needs of one of Milan’s most populated urban areas, and has represented the city during the 2015 Expo Exhibition.This skyscraper is in fact the first example in Italy, and one of the first in the world, of a tangible integration between nature and man. The building is developed as a real vertical forest: the peculiar structure hosts a large number of projecting balconies, able to accommodate about one hundred different plant species.To illuminate the terraces of the private apartments, a real green lung for the city, Linea Light Group has created a specific product: a highly-efficient mini LED spotlight with a 4.000 K neutral light source and a driver integrated in the black embossed casing, positioned in the external flower boxes.These very compact spotlights illuminate the vertical forest with a delicate spot lighting effect and enhance the profiles of trees and bushes, thus increasing its visual charm and making it such a unique building.

Designed by Studio Boeri, now Stefano Boeri Architetti (Stefano Boeri, Gianandrea Barreca, Giovanni La Varra) in partnership with building contractor Manfredi Catella (Hines Italia SGR S.p.A.), Bosco Verticale is able to meet an inborn need of contemporary man: the desire to live in a natural ecosystem without having to renounce to comfort and a lifestyle connecting the story of this place to a modern vision.

Documentation of Vertical Forest in Milan, Italy

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