Italian architect Stefano Boeri has completed the plant-covered Trudo Vertical Forest social housing tower in Eindhoven.
The housing block is 70 metres tall and surrounded with staggered, protruding balconies that support over 10,000 plants.
It is Stefano Boeri Architetti's first "vertical forest" in the Netherlands.
The Trudo Vertical Forest by Stefano Boeri Architetti is located in Eindhoven. Photo by Paolo Rosselli.
Unlike earlier vertical forests including Bosco Verticale that contained luxury apartments, the 18-storey tower has 125 affordable social housing units.
"The Eindhoven social housing tower establishes the possibility of combating both climate change and resolving the problem of housing through interpreting the idea of urban forestation," said Stefano Boeri Architetti partner Francesca Cesa Bianchi. "Not only as a necessity in order to improve the environments in cities around the world, but also a great opportunity to improve the living conditions of poorer citizens," she told Dezeen.
The building incorporates over 10,000 plants and trees across its exterior. Photo is by Paolo Rosselli.
Trudo Vertical Forest is wrapped in white concrete horizontal bands that envelop the building between strips of solar-reflective glazing.
From the horizontal concrete bands, staggered planter balconies were extruded at different widths, heights and depths. These balconies support 10,135 plants, shrubs and trees.
The exterior is covered in ...