Urban Forest is a 30-storey apartment building covered in thousand trees and plants that Koichi Takada Architects has designed for Brisbane, Australia.
The mixed-use high rise building owned by developers Aria Property Group will include 392 homes, a two-level rooftop garden and a public park at ground level.
Urban Forest will be covered in 1,000 trees
Australian studio Koichi Takada Architects plans to cover the stepped facade with 1,000 trees and 20,000 plants, in a combination of over 250 species native to Queensland.
The architecture studio and developers are attempting to make Urban Forest the "world's greenest residential building".
A public park will be positioned at the base of the building
"Urban Forest is probably the greenest we can design with the current 'greening' tools and regulations available to us," said studio founder Koichi Takada. The architect wants the high-rise building to represent a move away from mass production and towards a more sustainable mode of living, which he said had become more important following the coronavirus pandemic.

"Post Covid-19, I think it's a great opportunity to pause and rethink and not just adapt, but shift the paradigm from industrial to natural," Takada added.
"Concrete, steel and glass are very hard and solid industrial materials," he continued. "Let's call them dead materiality. We need to be embracing more living materiality, living architecture."
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