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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