With little space for cultivating plants on a large scale in the Chinese city of Nanjing, this architect has a plan to help an urban garden grow up—literally. By 2018, Italian architect Stefano Boeri will complete his vertical forest installation upon the Nanjing Towers, a pair of skyscrapers each looming 656 feet and 354 feet above the city.
The project will use 1,110 trees, 2,500 shrubs, and a total 23 local tree species, to cover the facade of the two buildings and help revitalize the region's ecology. "Vertical Forest is a model for a sustainable residential building, a project for metropolitan reforestation that contributes to the regeneration of the environment and urban biodiversity without the implication of expanding the city upon the territory," Boeri wrote on his website, discussing the concept of Vertical Forest in general. [...]
The Vertical Forest in Nanjing won't be Boeri's first foray into this kind of project. He executed a similar project for residential towers in Milan, where he vertically planted 900 trees and over 20,000 different plants, distributing them according to best individual placement in relation to the sun. That project, dubbed the "Bosco Verticale," opened to residents back in 2014.
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