Social Housing Project with Extensive Vertical Gardens Completes

14 October 2021 | Eindhoven, Netherlands

Trudo Vertical Forest in Eindhoven can support over 10,000 plants on its intensively vegetated terraces. Image credit: Photo by Remco Mariën on Unsplash

In Eindhoven, Trudo Vertical Forest, a social housing project, has completed. The building provides 125 affordable social housing units.

Designed by Stefano Boeri Architetti, the 75-meter-tall building uses staggered planter boxes of varying widths, heights, and depths on its exterior to house over 10,135 plants, including trees and bushes. The planters have sensor to monitor soil moisture and nutrient composition.

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The use of prefabricated components and cost-efficient materials helped the project stay on budget. Solar panels were added to the roofs of adjacent buildings to produce some of the energy for the building and a rainwater collection system is used to irrigate the plantings.

Each of the 50-square-meter apartments has reconfigurable space with ceiling heights of at least 3.5 meters. Every apartment has its own balcony fitted with green boxes that contain a single tree and 20 bushes. The building design assumes each tree could double in weight during its lifetime.

The tower's vertical forest will be monitored by gardeners who rappel down the building to maintain and prune its trees and shrubs.

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