Vertical Forest
Architecture and design that integrates vertical vegetation and living systems into built structures and urban environments.
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
Vertical Farm Architecture for a Closed-Loop Urban Food System
Vertical farm architecture proposes a closed loop urban agriculture system where cities produce food, recycle waste and restore ecological balance.
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.
Vertical Park with Iranian Garden Approach
A vertical green architecture concept that reimagines urban parks through Iranian garden principles in dense metropolitan environments.
National Office of Forests of Versailles: A Harmonious Forest-Inspired Pavilion by Atelier Delalande Tabourin
The Versailles Forest Office pavilion blends timber architecture, sustainable design, and immersive forest views, creating a functional, eco-friendly, and visually striking workspace.
