Vertical Forest
Architecture and design that integrates vertical vegetation and living systems into built structures and urban environments.
Edward Conde Serna Arquitectos Threads Elevated Walkways Through Cali's Foothills to Seed a New Urban Forest
A 57,000 m² park on Cali's mountain edge in Colombia uses raised steel boardwalks to reconnect the city with the Farallones and grow an urban forest.
studio hinge Wraps Concrete Columns in Timber to Grow a Reading Forest Inside Mumbai's Cricket Club of India
A third-floor library in South Mumbai's 1930s Art Deco Cricket Club of India, where concrete columns become timber trees above 1.2-metre shelves.
Read Studio Stacks a Concrete House Vertically to Let a Sri Lankan Garden Grow Around It
A 323-square-meter home in Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte occupies a small footprint so mature trees, herbs, and fruit plants claim the rest of the site.
Atelier MA Builds a Twisting Timber Pavilion at the Edge of a French Forest Pond
Split chestnut shingles and triangulated larch frames welcome visitors to the Mormal forest in northern France's Avesnois region.
Architects 49 Wraps an LNG Terminal Office in a Living Forest Canopy in Map Ta Phut
A 13,500-square-meter circular office harnesses cold energy from liquified natural gas to grow a cloud forest in industrial Thailand.
Roland Baldi Architects Chars a Timber Forestry Station Black in South Tyrol's Most Wooded Municipality
A CasaClima Gold administration building in Nova Ponente draws on Alpine and Japanese fire-treatment traditions to honor its forested context.
Estudio Bulla Invents a Forest of 2,500 River Alders for a Museum Campus Outside Buenos Aires
At Malba Puertos in Escobar, three outdoor gallery rooms thread through a planted grove that doubles as a living ecological laboratory.
Michan Architecture and PARABASE Scatter Three Pavilions Beneath the Canopy of Chapultepec Forest
An international competition win delivers 70,000 square meters of new parkland architecture woven into Mexico City's most iconic urban forest.
Common Woods: Housing That Lives Inside a Forest
Space&Matter's circular housing cluster in Amersfoort dissolves the boundary between neighborhood and nature with radical material honesty.
A Forest in the House by Equipo de Arquitectura
In San Bernardino, Paraguay, Equipo de Arquitectura builds a home that refuses to remove a single tree, letting the forest dictate every architectural move
Atlantis 2023: Vertical Farm Towers That Turn a City's Waste Into Its Own Food Supply
Jakub Sokólski proposes a network of timber farming towers where organic waste, water and energy circulate in a closed loop inside the dense city.
Liyuan Foreign Language Primary School Integrating Forest, City, and Learning in Shenzhen
A forest-centered primary school in Shenzhen using vertical design, rooftop sports, and climate-responsive architecture to merge education, nature, and city life.
