The fashion and entertainment website ELLE dedicates an article to the 10 most iconic contemporary architectural buildings in Milan, among which is the Bosco Verticale, designed by Boeri Studio (Stefano Boeri, Gianandrea Barreca, Giovanni La Varra) in the Porta Nuova area.
The Bosco Verticale is the prototype-building of a new architecture of biodiversity, which no longer places man alone at the centre, but the relationship between man and other living species. The building consists of two towers, 80 and 112 m high, which together house 800 trees, 15,000 perennial and/or ground cover plants and 5,000 shrubs. A vegetation equivalent to that of 30,000 square metres of forest and undergrowth, concentrated on 3,000 square metres of urban area. The project is thus also a device to limit city sprawl induced by the search for greenery (each tower is equivalent to about 50,000 square metres of single-family houses). In contrast to ‘mineral’ façades made of glass or stone, the vegetal screen of the Bosco does not reflect or amplify the sun’s rays, but filters them, generating a cosy indoor microclimate without harmful effects on the environment. At the same time, the green curtain “regulates” humidity, produces oxygen and absorbs CO2 and particulate matter.
Just a few years after its construction, the Bosco Verticale has thus created a habitat colonised by numerous species of animals (including around 1,600 birds and butterflies), establishing an outpost of spontaneous plant and animal recolonisation in the city.
To read the full article: https://www.elle.com/it/lifestyle/viaggi/g42854462/edifici-architettura-contemporanea-milano/
A focus on the Bosco Verticale was also published in Ohga!, which had also devoted space to an interview with Francesca Cesa Bianchi , Partner and Director of Stefano Boeri Architetti, on the city of the future.