7 buildings that use trees as design elements

The verticale bosco uses nature as an element of design and decorative.

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Vertical bosco

Borei Studio

Milan, Italy

He Bosco Verticale Apartment Complex De Milan was built in 2014, with the design and execution of Borei Studio, the firm developed by Stefano Boeri, Gianandrea Barreca and Giovanni La Varra. This project has two residential towers of 80 and 112 meters high but the most representative element is the spectacular set with vegetation as a vertebator element. The construction has the capacity to house 800 trees, 11,000 plants and 5,000 bushes. Creating a structure that uses the vegetation as design element but also favors the development of an urban ecosystem of great ecological value.

Yin & Yang house

PENDA STUDY

Kassel, Germany

The house created by the Panda study, currently known as Precht, was born from the need for a local family that sought to completely disconnect from technology and mimic with nature in their own home, so the trees worked as the main and inspiration element. The house is located in the German city of Kassel and The vegetation is the protagonist of the interior and exterior of this property. Thanks to the incredible project that the inhabitants were created, they have the possibility of cultivating their own food, incorporating greenhouses for winter and rows of pots for the rest of the year. In addition, the roof design allows rainwater collection that can be used to water its numerous plants and trees.

The Vogue house used the central tree as an inspiration for structure and design.

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Vogue house

Alessandro Sartore

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

The Vogue house, located in Rio de Janeiro, is a Sustainable housing Designed by the architect Alessandro Sartore for an art collector who wanted a house that served as the location for family retreats. This construction has many details that distingu it, but the most important is that of the tree located in the center of the living room. This tree was the inspiring element that determined the entire distribution of the house, attracting attention to the tendency of Incorporate the nature of the environment as another element in the decoration of the houses.

Green Villa

MVRDV

Sint-Michielsgestel, Holland

This building baptized as Green Villa is the work of the MVRDV studio and is located in the Dutch city of Sint-Michielsgestel. This project is impressive thanks to its way of incorporating concrete architecture and bioflilic architecture, since the building facade is built in concrete as shelves that support plants, shrubs and bushes and trees, which are responsible for dress in vertical forest to the building. Creating a beautiful facade and a new ecosystem.