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Watch our live talk with Stefano Boeri about his new book Green Obsession

Dezeen teamed up with Italian architecture studio Stefano Boeri Architetti to host a live talk marking the launch of Stefano Boeri's book exploring the relationship between nature and architecture.

Titled Green Obsession: Trees Towards Cities, Humans Towards Forests, the book explores the work that Boeri's eponymous architecture practice has been doing for the past 15 years to redefine the relationship between the city and nature.

Moderated by Dezeen's founder and editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs, the talk explored some of the book's central themes, including the role and importance of integrating nature with architecture and urban planning.

The book highlights the importance of architecture and urban planning co-existing with nature instead of replacing it

The book, published by Actar Publishers and supported by Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, aims to give voice to an ecological transition within architecture, in which cities are designed to support not only human life but all living species.

"We have an obsession: that of creating buildings for trees, which can also be inhabited by humans and even birds," Boeri said.

"We are also obsessed with designing forest cities, where plants and nature have no less of a presence than humans, and where both create a habitat in which mineral surfaces are reduced to the minimum amount needed for life."

Boeri created an urban planning proposal called Smart Forest City in Cancun, Mexico, which is designed to host up to 130,000 inhabitants

Other topics explored in the book include the role that communication, politics and economics play within the climate crisis. It includes contributions from ethologist and conservationist Jane Goodall and American environmentalist Paul Hawken, among other experts.

Boeri is best known for designing plant-covered buildings to combat air pollution and counter the effects of deforestation while fostering the connection between humans and nature in urban landscapes.

Amongst his most notable architectural projects is Bosco Verticale, which translates to vertical forest, a pair of high-density residential towers covered in trees in Milan.

More recently, Stefano Boeri Architetti completed its first vertical forest in China, comprising two 80-metre residential towers covered in over 400 trees and plants.

Stefano Boeri Architetti's most notable project is the Bosco Verticale residential towers in Milan

The book also includes masterplans of Boeri's The Green River design, an urban reforestation project for Milan's unused railways which proposes 45,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide could be absorbed while producing 1,800 tonnes of oxygen.

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First vertical forest towers by Stefano Boeri open in China

The first tenants have moved into Italian architect Stefano Boeri's Easyhome Huanggang Vertical Forest City Complex, the first of his vertical forest towers to open in China.

People began moving into the residential part of the development, which covers 4.54 hectares and is composed of five towers in total, a few weeks ago.

The complex's two residential towers are 80 metres high and covered in more than 400 trees, as well as other plants and greenery.

The tower has both open and closed balconies

Located in Huanggang in China's Hubei province, the plant-covered towers are a new kind of vertical forest that combine open and closed balconies, according to the studio.

Vertical forests are a building type invented by Boeri with facades covered with trees and plants. Existing vertical forest buildings by his studio, Stefano Boeri Architetti, usually feature just open balconies.

The structure of the Chinese complex was designed so that the foliage on the balconies would "fit perfectly" into the facade design.

The vertical forest tower is covered in over 400 trees

"The Huanggang version is characterised by the presence of openable bow windows with indoor plants that on their cover host a balcony with a pot for large trees," studio founder Boeri told Dezeen.

This design will ensure that the tenants are surrounded by trees.

"The design allows an excellent view of the tree-lined facades, enhancing the sensorial experience of the greenery and integrating the plant landscape with the architectural dimension," Boeri said.

"Thus, the inhabitants of the residential towers have the opportunity to experience the urban space from a different perspective while fully enjoying the comfort of being surrounded by nature."

Shrubs and perennial grass add to the greenery

The studio used local tree species for the 404 trees that clad the building, including Ginkgo biloba, Osmanthus fragrans, Acer griseum, Ligustrum lucidum and Chimonanthus praecox.

Easyhome Huanggang Vertical Forest City Complex also features 4,620 shrubs and 2,408 square metres of perennial grass, flowers and climbing plants.

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According to the studio, the trees and greenery will absorb 22 tons of carbon dioxide per year and produce 11 tons of oxygen per year.

As well as the tree-covered residential towers, the development, which Stefano Boeri Architetti describes as a "green complex," will also house hotels and large commercial spaces.

Extruded volumes sit between the trees

Easyhome Huanggang Vertical Forest City Complex is the first vertical forest building to open in China and Boeri thinks these types of buildings could be especially suitable for the country.

"In China we are experiencing a great interest in greenery and urban forestry these last years, also as a tool for absorbing the fine dust which is one of the main factors of air pollution in cities," Boeri said.

The two residential towers are part of a larger development

His studio will also shortly open two vertical forest towers in Nanjing, which were first unveiled in 2017.

"In this country, as well as in Huanggang and Nanjing – where in the next few weeks we will inaugurate two towers of vertical forests to house offices and a hotel– we are designing many different versions of vertical forest, of different heights and nature, in many other cities," Boeri said.

A stepped design allows trees to grow

"The vertical forest model in residences will fundamentally transform the landscape of future cities and change people's expectations for future ecological life," Xu Yibo, partner of Stefano Boeri Architetti China, said.

Boeri's earlier vertical forest designs include the very first one, Bosco Verticale in Milan, which contained luxury apartments, as well as his most recent one, Trudo Vertical Forest in Eindhoven.

The Eindhoven iteration of the concept was designed for social housing and features over 10,000 plants.

The photography is by RAW Vision Studio.

Project credits:

Project: Stefano Boeri Architetti China
Founder and partner: Stefano Boeri
Partner: Yibo Xu
Project director: Pietro Chiodi
Project architect: Huang Yitao
Design team: Yinxin Bao, Siyu Lei, Lei Cui, Jinye Du, Yifan Fei, Zhiyang Huang, Mohamed Hassan Ali Elgendy, Luca Xu, Liu Juan, Cecilia Picello, Sebastiano Cattiodoro, Linhong Jiang, Jialun Yuan, Mohamed Yasser Elsarif
Business manager: Palace Gong
Plantation consultant: Studio Laura Gatti
Structural design consultant: Luca Buzzoni, ARUP (Italy)
LDI: Central-South Architectural Design Institute Co., Ltd.
Wind test: RWDI
Construction: China Construction Third Engineering Bureau Group Co.,Ltd
Landscape construction: Landscape Architecture Corporation of China Co., Ltd.
Visual: LIFANG (Shanghai) Digital Technologies Co., Ltd. ; Shanghai Skyin Visual Arts Co. Ltd

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stefano boeri completes first vertical forest in china

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