Il primo numero di The Grand Tourist, pubblicazione che riprende il principale podcast su arte, design e architettura del giornalista Dan Rubinstein, include A Towering Intellect, intervista a Stefano Boeri in occasione del decimo anniversario del Bosco Verticale di Milano.
Il contributo, partendo dalle origini personali di Stefano Boeri e dalla genesi del progetto milanese, presenta anche la pubblicazione Bosco Verticale: Morpholology of a Vertical Forest (Rizzoli), monografia completa del progetto curata da Stefano Boeri Architetti, oltre alle visioni e la filosofia dei principali progetti dello studio.
“After observing the climate conditions, we started to select the plants, the species that are more adaptable to this specific climate condition. And only at that moment we started to act as designers because the life trajectory of every species is, for us, extremely important when we design the façade, when we design the relation between the balcony and the lodger or between two balconies. We have to give to every tree, to every shrub, to every bush, to every plant the space for its growth. And this is a completely different way to design a building. If you want, we are considering trees as tenants. We are really considering their requests, their expectations, their trajectory growth, and so we have in a way introduced botany in our knowledge. And this is still extremely intriguing and interesting. And this explains also why all the Vertical Forests that we have designed in the Netherlands, in China, in Egypt are different because every time we start again.” dichiara Stefano Boeri.
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