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

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1 Liuzhou Forest City: the world s first eco-town is getting real By 2020, the first Chinese Forest-Town designed by Stefano Boeri Architects will be reality: offices, homes, hotels, hospitals, schools fully covered with trees and plants. The works for the construction of Liuzhou Forest City have just started. This is the name of the project of the forest-town that will be built north of Liuzhou, in Guangxi's southern and mountainous province, in an area of about 175 acres along the Liujiang River. Once completed, each year the new city of 30,000 inhabitants will be able to absorb about 10,000 tonnes of CO 2 and 57 tonnes of particulates and produce about 900 tonnes of oxygen. The new fully wired green city will be connected to Liuzhou city by a fast railway line used by electric motor cars, and will be hosting different residential areas, commercial and receptive spaces, as well as two schools and a hospital. Liuzhou Forest City will have all of the features of a fully energy supply self-sufficient urban settlement, starting from the geothermal conditioning Tile International 3/

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3 of the interiors and the widespread use of solar panels on the roofs for renewable energies production. However, the true innovation introduced by Stefano Boeri Architetti's project is the presence of plants and trees on all the buildings, of any size and use. In fact, it consists in a large-scale reproduction of the Vertical Forest*, the sustainable building winner of the World's Best Architecture award in 2015, which will be replicated in many places of the world (in China: Nanjing, Shanghai and Shenzhen). Overall, Liuzhou Forest City will include 40,000 trees and about 1 million plants of more than 100 species. Plants will be not only along avenues, parks and gardens, but also on the façades of buildings, so as to help the city - already self-sufficient in energy supply - to improve air quality (by absorbing, besides CO 2, the particulates for a total of about 57 tonnes per year), reduce the average temperature, create a barrier against the noise and increase biodiversity by creating a system of living spaces for birds, insects and small animals inhabiting the territory of Liuzhou. For the first time in the world, a * VERTICAL FOREST IN MILAN WAS THE 2015 BEST TALL BUILDING WORLDWIDE The Milan-based Boeri Studio received the award for the first Vertical Forest on 12 November 2015 from the Council on Tall Building and Urban Habitat, promoted by the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago. Despite being up against truly world-class competition, the iconic skyscraper won the award ahead of the One World Trade Center in New York, followed by the CapitaGreen in Singapore and the Burj Mohammed Bin Rashid Tower in Abu Dhabi. Located in the Porta Nuova Isola district of Milan, Vertical Forest had already won several major prizes, such as the International Highrise Award 2014 in Frankfurt, and second place in the Emporis Skyscraper Award. Made using over 13,000 square metres of exceptionally large-format porcelain tiles by Cotto D'Este, the building combines environmental sustainability with high-quality interior space, and striking aesthetic impact. However, the main highlight is the project s green concept: it hosts 900 trees and over 20,000 plants distributed according to the sun exposure of the facade. The vegetal system of the Vertical Forest contributes to the construction of a microclimate, produces humidity, absorbs CO 2 and dust particles and produces oxygen. Tile International 3/

4 next-generation urban settlement will combine the challenge of energy self-sufficiency and the use of renewable energies with the one of increasing biodiversity and that - crucial to contemporary China - of significantly reducing air pollution in big cities, thanks to the multiplication of both vegetal and biological urban surfaces. With the Liuzhou Forest City s project, the architecture practice led by Stefano Boeri goes on with its research around a new generation of architectures and urban settlements that challenge climate change and propose themselves as models for the future of the planet, inscrutable in the so-called Vertical Foresting project philosophy. 5 click here! or digit video mail press TILE EDIZIONI, SINCE 1990 the leading publisher in the distribution channel of floor and wall coverings and bathroom furnishing web social

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