August 4, 2012

The Village Green: Reimagining The High-Rise




The Village Green: Reimagining The High-Rise

It must be something in the air — last week, we brought you Richard Black’s Symbiotic Building concept, which essentially seeks to combine the modern office environment with a greenhouse. Today, we bring you a high-rise in France’s Boulogne-Billancourt reimagined as an urban eco-village, bursting with greenery.

The Natural Evolution building proposal (which comes to us via eVolo) was developed in response for the increasing need for high-density housing in urban areas. In accordance with that vision, it was developed for Boulogne-Billancourt, the most populous suburb of Paris and one of the most densely populated municipalities in all of Europe. The idea here is to reconcile the concepts of high-density housing and quality of life through a return to the fundamental concept of human habitation: the village.

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