13/11/2022
Dod you know that...? 🧐
Stefano Boeri was in Dubai in 2007, when he got the idea of building a skyscraper lined with trees. The architect wandered around the capital of the United Arab Emirates and noticed how the buildings were clad in glass, ceramics or metals, reflecting sunlight and generating heat in the air and on the ground.
This was joined shortly after by a research by his Spanish colleague, Alejandro Zaera, in which he found that 94% of tall buildings built after 2000 were clad in glass. From here came the stimulus to design two biological and sustainable towers, able to reduce energy consumption thanks to the vegetable screen.
The two towers, 80 and 112 meters high, house a total of 800 trees, 15 thousand perennials or ground cover plants and 5 thousand shrubs. A vegetation equivalent to that of 30 thousand square meters of forest and undergrowth, concentrated on 3 thousand square meters of urban surface.
The benefits are many, starting from the fact that the vegetation filters the sun's rays, generating a welcoming internal microclimate without harmful effects on the environment. In addition, it regulates humidity, produces oxygen and absorbs CO2 and fine dust and has created a habitat that has attracted numerous species of animals (including about 1600 specimens of birds and butterflies), establishing an outpost of spontaneous plant and faunal recolonization. of the city.