How much did Bosco Verticale cost?

Bosco Verticale will cost EUR65 million (US$87.5 million) and is stage one of the proposed BioMilano, which is hoped to create a green belt around the city.

Who made Bosco Verticale?

Stefano Boeri
Giovanni La VarraGianandrea Barreca
Bosco Verticale/Architects

Six years ago, Italian architect Stefano Boeri, with Boeri Studio’s Gianandrea Barreca and Giovanni La Varra, completed a two-tower project in Milan’s new Porta Nuova district known as the Bosco Verticale.

How does Bosco Verticale work?

Mitigations. Vertical Forest helps to build a micro-climate and to filter dust particles which are present in the urban environment. The diversity of the plants helps to create humidity and absorbs CO2 and dust, produces oxygen, protects people and houses from harmful sun rays and from acoustic pollution.

How many stories Bosco Verticale?

11
Within the complex is an 11-storey office building; its facade does not include plants. The towers were designed by Boeri Studio (Stefano Boeri, Gianandrea Barreca and Giovanni La Varra).

What kind of architecture is Il Bosco Verticale?

Milan’s Il Bosco Verticale (the Vertical Forest) is a new approach to high rise buildings in which trees and humans co-exist. In essence it is an architectural concept which replaces traditional materials on urban surfaces using the changing polychromy of leaves for its walls.

How much does Bosco Verticale cost per square metre?

It contains 400 condominium units [7] priced from 3,000–12,000 Euro per square metre. [8] According to Stefano Boeri, the building was inspired by Italo Calvino ‘s 1957 novel The Baron in the Trees, in which the protagonist decides to abandon the ground and live on the trees for the rest of his life.

How many trees are in Bosco Verticale in Milan?

On 11 April 2012, one of the buildings was used as a temporary art gallery and opened to the public for an art exhibition hosted during Milan Fashion Week. The two buildings have 730 trees (480 large, 250 small), 5,000 shrubs, and 11,000 perennials and groundcover on its façades.

Where is the Vertical Forest in Milan Italy?

Bosco Verticale ( Vertical Forest) is a pair of residential towers in the Porta Nuova district of Milan, Italy, between Via Gaetano de Castillia and Via Federico Confalonieri near Milano Porta Garibaldi railway station.