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Project Liuzhou Forest City: the world’s first eco-town is getting real

By 2020, the first Chinese For- the project of the forest-town about 10,000 tonnes of CO2 dential areas, commercial est-Town designed by Stefa- that will be built north of Liu- and 57 tonnes of particulates and receptive spaces, as well no Boeri Architects will be re- zhou, in Guangxi's southern and produce about 900 as two schools and a hospi- ality: offices, homes, hotels, and mountainous province, tonnes of oxygen. tal. hospitals, schools fully cov- in an area of about 175 acres ered with trees and plants. along the Liujiang River. The new fully wired green city Liuzhou Forest City will have will be connected to Liuzhou all of the features of a fully en- The works for the construction Once completed, each year city by a fast railway line used ergy supply self-sufficient ur- of Liuzhou Forest City have the new city of 30,000 inhabit- by electric motor cars, and ban settlement, starting from just started. This is the name of ants will be able to absorb will be hosting different resi- the geothermal conditioning

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of the interiors and the wide- large-scale reproduction of about 1 million plants of a total of about 57 tonnes per spread use of solar panels on the Vertical Forest*, the sus- more than 100 species. year), reduce the average the roofs for renewable ener- tainable building winner of Plants will be not only along temperature, create a barrier gies’ production. the “World's Best Architecture” avenues, parks and gardens, against the noise and in- However, the true innovation award in 2015, which will be but also on the façades of crease biodiversity by creat- introduced by Stefano Boeri replicated in many places of buildings, so as to help the ing a system of living spaces Architetti's project is the pres- the world (in China: Nanjing, city - already self-sufficient in for birds, insects and small an- ence of plants and trees on Shanghai and Shenzhen). energy supply - to improve air imals inhabiting the territory all the buildings, of any size Overall, Liuzhou Forest City quality (by absorbing, be- of Liuzhou.

and use. In fact, it consists in a will include 40,000 trees and sides CO2, the particulates for For the first time in the world, a

* VERTICAL FOREST IN MILAN WAS THE 2015 BEST TALL BUILDING WORLDWIDE

The Milan-based Boeri Studio and the Burj Mohammed Bin environmental sustainability received the award for the Rashid Tower in Abu Dhabi. with high-quality interior space, first Vertical Forest on 12 Located in the Porta Nuova and striking aesthetic impact. November 2015 from the Isola district of Milan, Vertical However, the main highlight is Council on Tall Building and Forest had already won the project’s green concept: Urban Habitat, promoted by the several major prizes, such it hosts 900 trees and over Illinois Institute of Technology as the International Highrise 20,000 plants distributed in Chicago. Award 2014 in Frankfurt, and according to the sun Despite being up against second place in the Emporis exposure of the facade. The truly world-class competition, Skyscraper Award. vegetal system of the Vertical the iconic skyscraper won Made using over 13,000 Forest contributes to the the award ahead of the square metres of construction of a microclimate, One World Trade Center in exceptionally large-format produces humidity, absorbs

New York, followed by the porcelain tiles by Cotto CO2 and dust particles and CapitaGreen in Singapore D'Este, the building combines produces oxygen.

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next-generation urban pollution in big cities, a new generation of ar- settlement will combine thanks to the multiplica- chitectures and urban the challenge of energy tion of both vegetal and settlements that chal- self-sufficiency and the biological urban surfac- lenge climate change use of renewable ener- es. and propose themselves gies with the one of in- With the Liuzhou Forest as models for the future creasing biodiversity City’s project, the archi- of the planet, inscruta- and that - crucial to con- tecture practice led by ble in the so-called “Ver- temporary China - of sig- Stefano Boeri goes on tical Foresting” project nificantly reducing air with its research around philosophy. 5

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