These two buildings are the Bosco Verticale towers located in Milan, Italy. These towers began construction in 2009 and are expected to be finished early in 2015. The buildings were designed by the architect Stefano Boeri as a form of sustainable architecture that relies on nature as much as it relies on technology. The motivation for these structures comes from a desire to combat urban sprawl while accompanying reforestation. Between both towers there is a total of 480 trees and over 5000 bushes of various kinds to support biodiversity. The trees are cultivated specifically for this project. The vegetation serves several functions including reducing pollution, providing insulation for the residence during summer months, and filtering out noise pollution from the city. The plants are situated to create micro-climates around the building to support small insect populations. An inbuilt irrigation system was built into the structure to allow easy watering of all the plants. The towers will contain approximately 400 condominium units. Residents will be gifted with an ever changing city scape as the plants grow and mature. I would love to see biological architecture such as this become more popular. These towers represent the acknowledgement that humans must begin to live in unison with local biology and not separated from it.
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