Stefano Boeri Architetti
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Located north of Liuzhou, a Chinese city of about one and a half million inhabitants in the mountainous Southern province of Guangxi (one of the world’s most smog-affected urban areas due to overpopulation), Liuzhou Forest City is the first Forest City in the world: an urban body in which offices, houses, hotels, hospitals and schools are almost entirely covered by plants and trees of a wide range of varieties and sizes. Spread over an area of around 175 hectares along the Liujiang River, the masterplan commissioned by Liuzhou Municipality Urban Planning is currently being implemented. The project extends the successful experimentation already underway for the first time in Milan with the Vertical Forest building-prototype, proposing and developing a model of architecture and habitat capable of interpreting the theme of biodiversity on an urban scale and redefining the relationship between humans and other living species. In addition to hosting about 30,000 inhabitants, the new city will provide a comfortable living environment for plants and trees on all buildings: in all, the Liuzhou Forest City will host about 40,000 trees and 1 million plants from more than 100 different species.
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Liuzhou, China