Vertical Forest helps to build a micro-climate and to filter dust particles which are present in the urban environment. The creation of a number of Vertical Forests in the city can set up a network of environmental corridors which will give life to the main parks in the city, bringing together the green space of avenues and gardens and interweaving various spaces of spontaneous vegetation growth. It helps to set up an urban ecosystem where a different kind of vegetation creates a vertical environment which can also be colonized by birds and insects, and therefore becomes both a magnet for and a symbol of the spontaneous re-colonization of the city by vegetation and by animal life. The vegetal system of the Vertical Forest contributes to the construction of a microclimate, produces humidity, absorbs CO2 and dust particles and produces oxygen. In terms of urban densification it is the equivalent of an area of a single family dwelling of nearly 75,000 sq.m.
On flat land, each Vertical Forest equals, in amount of trees, an area of 20,000 square meters of forest. What is interesting is that the wide range of shrubs and floral plants are distributed according to the sun exposure of the facade. The first example of the Vertical Forest consisting of two residential towers, was realized in the centre of Milan, on the edge of the Isola neighborhood, hosting the shrubs, plants and the 800 trees (each measuring 3, 6 or 9 meters). Vertical Forest is a model for a sustainable residential building, a project for metropolitan reforestation contributing to the regeneration of the environment and urban biodiversity without the implication of expanding the city upon the territory. It is a model of vertical densification of nature within the city that operates in relation to policies for reforestation and naturalization of large urban and metropolitan borders. The equivalent – over an urban surface of 1,500 m2 – of 20,000 m2 of forest and undergrowth. Milan’s Vertical Forest consists of two towers of 80 and 112 metres, hosting 480 large and medium trees, 300 small trees, 11,000 perennial and covering plants and 5,000 shrubs. It was inaugurated in October 2014 in Milan in the Porta Nuova Isola area, as part of a wider renovation project led by Hines Italia. This is the first example of a ‘Vertical Forest’ ( il Bosco Verticale). Traveling to Italy recently, we discovered the incredible Bosco Verticale: a skyscraper which is a living forest! What an incredible piece of architecture.
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