Smart Forest City (Cancun)

1. Smart Forest City, Cancun An architecture firm has designed a smart city that resembles a forest more than an urban metropolis

2. Smart Forest City, Cancun

3. Smart Forest City, Cancun

4. What are smart forest cities ? • A Forest city is a city of a new generation, capable of becoming a model of sustainable growth in a large country seeing • Forest City is composed by Vertical Forests • is the prototype of a new generation of small, compact and green cities, composed by dozens of tall and middle size buildings the so called “Vertical Forests” all surrounded by the leaves of trees

5. What are smart forest cities ?

6. Vertical Forests

7. What are smart forest cities ? • An urban ecosystem •  Is an urban ecosystems is a mix-use social environment, with residential housings, offices, retails, malls, public spaces and gardens. • The central Park (carpel) is the place for the main Public Facilities, the Hospital, the School, the Cultural Activities.

8. An urban ecosystem

9. An urban ecosystem

10. What are smart forest cities ? • An anti-sprawl device. • Every Forest City will concentrate in a vertical dimension and within a perimeter of 1,5 for 1,5 square kilometres (225 hectares)

11. An anti-sprawl device

12. What are smart forest cities ? • A sustainable city, with low energy consumption. • The vegetative filter on the buildings balconies creates a reduction in the difference between the outside and inside temperature of about 3 degrees. • In summertime it reduces the heating of the facades by up to 30 degrees.

13. A sustainable city, with low energy consumption

14. What are smart forest cities ? • An absorber of CO2 and the dust of urban pollution. • Forest Cities (FCS) cleans the air. • The vegetation within (FC) is designed in such a way as to form a continuous green filter between inside and outside of inhabited areas, able to absorb the fine particles produced by urban traffic, to produce oxygen, to absorb CO2, and to shield the balconies and interiors from very high pollution cities.

15. Forest Cities (FCS) cleans the air

16. Forest Cities (FCS) cleans the air

17. What are smart forest cities ? • Approximatively, every SQM of a Vertical Forest facade is absorbing 0,4 kg of CO2 a year Only considering the plants housed in the vertical facades of the green buildings, FCS will absorb approximately 1,750 kg of CO2 a year. • FCS will contribute to improve the environmental quality of the air in the whole city.

18. Forest City will absorb approximately1,750 kg of CO2 a year

19. What are smart forest cities ? • A multiplier the biodiversity of the living species. • FCS will be the home of hundreds of different spices of plant life, including trees, shrubs and perennials. • FCS will host many spices of birds and domestic animals.

20. A multiplier the biodiversity of the living species

21. A multiplier the biodiversity of the living species

22. What are smart forest cities ? • An ever-changing urban landmark. • Thanks to the variety of plant spices housed along the balconies and in the presence of deciduous trees, FCS will change its skin and the colour composition of its leaving facades, according to changing seasons and weather conditions.

23. An ever-changing urban landmark.

24. What are smart forest cities ? • The basic element of a new model of urbanisation. • FCS is a model of urbanisation and the basic element for a large number of settlement combinations.

25. The basic element of a new model of urbanisation

26. Stefano Boeri : The man Behind the Concept of Smart Forest Cities • Stefano Boeri : The man Behind the Concept of Smart Forest Cities • Stefano Boeri is an Italian architect and urban planner, born in Milan in 1956, founding partner of Stefano Boeri Architetti (SBA).

27. Stefano Boeri is an Italian architect and urban planner

28. Stefano Boeri : The man Behind the Concept of Smart Forest Cities • Stefano Boeri Architetti has recently completed the Vertical Forest, two sustainable residential towers based on urban biodiversity in Milan

29. Stefano Boeri Architetti has recently completed the Vertical Forest, two sustainable residential towers

30. Stefano Boeri : The man Behind the Concept of Smart Forest Cities • Stefano Boeri has developed various plans for the reconversion of European waterfronts (Genoa, Naples, Trieste, Cagliari, Salonika, Mytilene)

31. Stefano Boeri has developed various plans for the reconversion of European waterfronts

32. Stefano Boeri has developed various plans for the reconversion of European waterfronts

33. Stefano Boeri : The man Behind the Concept of Smart Forest Cities • Stefano Boeri Architetti is also very active abroad, outside of Europe, specially in China with the headquarter in Shanghai the studio is developing projects as “Forest City” recently presented at the Paris Climate Conference (COP21), a model of sustainable city able to consume tons of CO2 and generate oxygen.

34. Stefano Boeri : The man Behind the Concept of Smart Forest Cities

35. Stefano Boeri Architetti • Recently SBA was selected with three other teams by the Egyptian Government to redesign the triangle of Maspero in the heart of downtown Cairo, developing a series of new towers and public facilities along the Nile waterfront.

36. Triangle of Maspero

37. Selected works • Bosco Verticale (Vertical Forest) is a model for sustainable residential buildings. • A project for metropolitan reforestation that regenerates the environment and the urban biodiversity without expanding the city upon the territory. • Vertical Forest is a model of vertical densification of nature within the city.

38. Bosco Verticale (Vertical Forest) is a model for sustainable residential buildings

39. Selected works • The first unit of Vertical Forest is formed by two residential towers, 119 and 87 meters high, realized in the centre of Milan Isola neighbourhood, that will host 900 trees and over 2000 plants from a wide range of floral species distributed in relation to the façade position towards the sun.

40. Bosco Verticale (Vertical Forest) is a model for sustainable residential buildings

41. Smart Forest City, Cancun • Italian architect Stefano Boeri has unveiled plans to create a forested smart city near Cancun, Mexico, that is designed to be a "pioneer" of more eco-efficient developments.

42. Smart Forest City, Cancun

43. Smart Forest City, Cancun • Smart Forest City Cancun is intended to be built on a 557 hectare site near the Mexican city. • According to the architect it will contain 7.5 million plants, including numerous species of trees, shrubs and bushes chosen by botanist and landscape architect Laura Gatti.

44. Smart Forest City, Cancun

45. Smart Forest City, Cancun • Thanks to the new public parks and private gardens, thanks to the green roofs and to the green facades, the areas actually occupied will be given back by nature through a perfect balance between the amount of green areas and building footprint. • The Smart Forest City will absorb 116.000 tons of carbon dioxide with 5.800 tons of CO2 stocked per year.

46. Smart Forest City, Cancun

47. Smart Forest City, Cancun • Smart Forest City – Cancun is the first Forest City of the new millennium, an open and international city whose development is focused on technological innovation and environmental quality.

48. Smart Forest City, Cancun

49. Smart Forest City, Cancun • A center for advanced research that could hosts all worldwide university departments, international organizations and companies that deal with very important sustainability issues and the future of the planet. • New research and development departments are dedicated to welcome researchers and young students from Mexico and from the best academies and universities from all over the world.

50. Smart Forest City, Cancun