Verticle forest

I wonder how that responds to high winds?
and snow loads with a directionally prevailing ice storm event!

Cool idea!

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Not sure I would tie into one of them, probably need TIP's in the roof and walls LOL. Awesome idea, I was just thinking about something like this the other day.

-Tom
 
There's some comments following the storey. It claims the building is built for real. It'll be interesting to see how it turns out. It'll be some new problems and solutions.
 
Could be used as a tree farm. Residents could benefit from the plants until they are just about too big for the site, then lower them down the side of the building into an awaiting vehicle for transport to a permanent planting site.
 
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I wonder how that responds to high winds?
and snow loads with a directionally prevailing ice storm event!

Cool idea!

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I know... I'm thinking the species mix planning would be important for different heights/wind conditions on the building, in New England more alpine-like or dwarfed wind/cold tolerant species at the top, larger more shade tolerant at the bottom.

Some problems with tree parts randomly falling out of the building on to the streets. Maintenance costs would be high to keep it all safe in an urban situation.
-AJ
 
I saw a great slide show depicting tree protection techniques utilized in China. Pretty sure you saw it as well, Tom M... The citizens were setting up structures to shield trees from high winds, even going through the ask of supporting numerous limbs of a tree from above, much like a may pole. Shouldn't be overly difficult to have some sort of shielding in place for protection here and there. The idea is definitely a worthwhile endeavor to explore.
 
Looks like a waste of time, unless the inside has a parking garage on the levels or some offices.

But if there's people-space on the inside, that's pretty interesting provided the planters are designed to the tree weight and leverage doesn't bust-out the soil and send trees down on pedestrians.

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I think that a pyramid structure would be more viable in terms of safety. You wouldn't have to worry about branches falling and hurting anyone. It would also allow the trees to grow extremely tall. This could also be used as an inhabitable building as well. Maybe the wind dynamics would be more tolerable too.
 
Soil volume would be a limiting factor, most likely enough that smaller, slower growing varieties would need to be selected, or larger varieties removed (transplanted) and replaced regulary.
 
I wouldn't give the architects/engineers too much credit for understanding the future of their projects.

Or maybe plans get laid with future in mind, then money runs out halfway through and no one is left to take the responsibility for pie in the sky ideas.

Case in point: There is a concrete U-shaped office building in Victoria BC that has cantilevered window boxes 360 degrees all around. Filled with soil, they stick out 18" and are 12"deep. Not so structually challenging. Planted with a sprawling variety of Contoneaster and Mahonia.

Birds love this stuff. They eat, they poop. Now there are bird gut stratified seeds of every damn thing you can imagine in there.

Every gentle breeze has blown in dandelion seeds, the whole building looks a mess.

The building windows are sealed, there is nothing you can do from the inside except watch the weeds grow.

When we were contracted to weed and prune the dream gone nightmare, we went up on the roof and there was nothing, nothing to tie into!

We were told that since the glass was recessed due to the planters, no need for roof access, the glass would stay clean.

Fortunately, the building was only 4-5 stories, so almost half of it was done from a bucket truck.

But for a big chunk of it, we had to hang a pulley off of 5/8ths strapped around A/C units, and climb off that.

It was a bit sketch, A?C units are intended to stay put, that bolt is stout, rated for what, but none of us could figure a better way.

How the designers of the building thought their fifth floor planters would be maintained, I have no idea.

And frankly, neither did they.

Northwind
 
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I wouldn't give the architects/engineers too much credit for understanding the future of their projects.

How the designers of the building thought their fifth floor planters would be maintained, I have no idea.

And frankly, neither did they.

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Still I say they get an "A" for acumen. its on the right track.

Biological building are here we just need some serious innovators at all levels to get it right.
Living walls, interior plantscapes, biodomes etc.

The coolest wouold be a super tree house that is alive and growing and incorporate modern building components to be stronger, better,longer lived and larger structures.
Windows that grow in and fruit andd nuts at your finger tips, grab a vine and swing on over to the tree fungi house.

They need to get out of the box/planter and bring it all closer to the earth.
They want to build homes but in reality we should be planting them.
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I bet there would be a high degree of thermal efficiency. It will be an interesting project to watch grow.

By the looks of the drawings, they seem to have forgotten about the trees growing toward the light...
 
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