(One of the reasons companies like Google, Facebook, and Salesforce have developed biophilic standards for their buildings.) He adds that the benefits of plants in our living environment extend to increased focus and lowered stress response.
COIMAīill Browning, cofounder of Terrapin Bright Green, an environmental consultant specializing in biophilic design, notes that COVID has only multiplied city-dwellers’ desire for green space, be it in their cities or in their homes. Rendering of the dining room at a penthouse in the Bosco Verticale. And with his Urban Forestry manifesto, Boeri is calling for architects, developers, scientists, and politicians to “multiply the presence of forests and trees in our cities” through vertical forests, yes, but also through tree-filled green belts, green retrofits, and urban/plant hybrid locales that he calls green jungles. The 130,000 person metropolis, developed by Honduras-based Grupo Karim’s, would contain 362 acres of planted surfaces and 120,000 plants from 350 species. And he’s working on projects in Eindhoven and Utrecht in The Netherlands that utilize prefabrication to help bring costs down making them more financially accessible.īoeri’s next frontier is the vertical green city, which is moving ahead with Cancun Smart Forest City, near Cancun, Mexico. He’s pushing to ensure that they evolve to be greener and more efficient: He’s in early conversations with COIMA to create a mass timber framed vertical forest that would contain far less embodied carbon than what he has built to date. He says he is now working on plant-covered buildings in Italy, France, Switzerland, Albania, The Netherlands, Belgium, China, and Egypt. Boeri’s own green-clad constructions have multiplied since the Bosco Verticale.
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