The website Architectural Digest (AD) features an article by Maya Chawla titled Sustainable Architecture Is More Needed Than Ever—Here’s What It Actually Means, which also includes Milan’s Bosco Verticale.
The article focuses on the role of sustainable architecture—a definition that refers less to how a building looks and more to how it performs. It is an approach to construction that considers the entire life cycle of a structure, from building materials to daily use, and through to maintenance or eventual reuse. In general, building sustainably means designing with a building’s carbon footprint in mind and developing solutions to keep it as low as possible.
Within this context, after an analysis of the history and importance of sustainable architecture, the article presents several outstanding examples from around the world, from New York to Australia, including the Bosco Verticale, designed by Boeri Studio and inaugurated in 2014. The project consists of two residential towers, 110 and 76 meters tall, located in central Milan in the Porta Nuova district. Together they host 800 trees, 4,500 shrubs, and 20,000 plants belonging to around one hundred different species, distributed according to the sun exposure of the façades.
The Bosco Verticale contains vegetation equivalent to about five hectares of forest on flat land, but concentrated on an area of only about 1,000 square meters—fifty times smaller. The environmental benefits are numerous: absorption of fine dust and CO₂, oxygen production, optimized water management, reduced noise pollution, and an overall improvement in quality of life—for people, plants, and animals.
To read the full article:
https://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/sustainable-architecture-101?utm_source=yahoo&utm_medium=syndication&mbid=synd_yahoo_rss