Foreign Property News | Posted by Aye Myat Thu
Bosco Vericale is a unique residential complex in the center of Milan, Italy. It consists of two towers that stand 80 and 112 meters high and are covered in plants and trees giving them the look that inspired their name – vertical forest.
Designed by a team of architects at Boeri Studio, Bosco Verticale was designed as a “home for trees that also houses humans and birds”. It was inaugurated in October 2014, in Milan’s Porta Nuova Isola area, as part of a wider renovation project. The two towers are home to a total of 800 trees (480 first and second stage trees, 300 smaller ones), 15,000 perennials and/or ground covering plants and 5,000 shrubs.
“At the same time, the green curtain “regulates” humidity, produces oxygen and absorbs CO2and microparticles,” the Boeri Studio website reads.
CNBC recently ran a piece on this unique residential development and learned that the vegetation has a positive effect on residents in more ways than one.
This concept certainly isn’t the new, in fact we’ve featured several similar buildings in the past, including Edificio Santalaia, a plant-covered building in the middle of Bogota, Colombia, or the Qiyi City Forest Garden residential complex in Chengdu, China. But they’re not all success stories. For example, the the Qiyi City Forest Garden recently made international news headlines after becoming a mosquito-infected, unkept jungle.
Milan’s Bosco Verticale, with the plants being constantly monitored by a digital and automated system.
A few years after its inauguration, Milan’s Bosco Verticale also became home to a number of animals insects, including about 1,600 specimens of birds and butterflies, all of which live in harmony with the human inhabitants.
Ref: OC
