Vertical Garden Building Milan

The towers have heights of 110 metres 360 ft and 76 metres 249 ft respectively and host 900 trees each measuring 3 6 or 9 meters or 10 30 ft and.

Vertical garden building milan.

Italian architect stefano boeri designed the two towers 365 feet and 260 feet tall respectively that hold 113 apartments but the big feature here is the abundant vegetation integrated into its buildings. Once complete the tower will be home to the world s first vertical. It s called bosco verticale means vertical forest and it s a new residential complex that takes the whole sustainable housing thing to a new level literally. The first example built in milan in the porta nuova area consists of two towers that are respectively 80 and 112 metres high housing a total of 800 trees 480 first and second stage trees.

The vertical forest is the prototype building for a new format of architectural biodiversity which focuses not only on human beings but also on the relationship between humans and other living species. A small vertical town of public residences and private buildings offices laboratories museums schools completely enveloped by millions of leaves of plants trees and lawns for green. Officially opened in october 2014 bosco verticale vertical forest is a pair of award winning residential towers in the porta nuova district of milan italy designed by boeri studio stefano boeri gianandrea barreca and giovanni la varra. In bogotá colombia we have the world s largest vertical garden on the santalaia a multi family residential building covering 33 550 square feet 3 117 square meters and stretching 9 stories.