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    Discover more about overgrown buildings and greener living in Evergreen Architecture by gestalten
    By creating an entirely new ecosystem, Paris’s Mille Arbres promises to break new ground in our urban reconnection with nature. OXO and Fujimoto collaborated on the project, proposing an undulating form that contains two layers of forest: a lower public park and an expansive rooftop garden. As its name suggests, 1,000 trees have been carefully selected to encourage biodiversity at a level normally unseen in cities.
    Planting and planning for an evergreen future in Evergreen Architecture by gestalten.
    Located in a small valley on Bali’s southern coast, this geometric concrete home was designed as a collaboration between architectural studio Patisandhika and multidisciplinary designer Daniel Mitchell. Inspired by the American architect Ray Kappe, the L-shaped structure blurs the divide between the indoors and outdoors. It creates a series of changing moods through a dynamic layout and material selection.
    25 Verde is a glorious insight into Luciano Pia’s imagination—a vision of treetop living, made reality in the city. Man-made materials and nature sit side-by-side, a tangle of terraces and trees supported by steel trunks that grow from the sidewalk. The project combines 63 homes with a lush forest of more than 200 trees. Inhabitants can observe the changing seasons from homes clad in naturally weathered larch shingles.
    Located on a man-made island in the wetlands of the De Biesbosch National Park, Studio Marco Vermeulen has transformed this local museum: adding a 11,000-square-foot (1,000-square-meter) wing, immersive roofscape, and freshwater tidal park. A green roof blankets the scheme, with a weaving walkway that encourages visitors to explore the terrain. The new wing incorporates generous expanses of floor-to-ceiling, heat-resistant windows, looking out onto the marshland surroundings.
    Rick Joy is known for creating beautiful buildings in wide-open expanses of desert landscape. With this project in Mexico City, he faced the opposite setting—a tight urban plot, surrounded by buildings on three sides. Despite these constraints, Tennyson 205 is a sanctuary that still captures Joy’s characteristic openness and appreciation of nature.
    Like an undiscovered ruin overgrown with vines, there is a romantic imperfection to act_romegialli’s Green Box—making it all the more beautiful. Over time, a cloud of vegetation has covered this renovated building, guided by a pitch roof-shaped support structure that envelops its original stone walls and flat, concrete roof. Using a very limited palette of wood, concrete, and galvanized steel, the design balances the language of industrial and practical spaces with that of a tranquil garden hideaway.
    Green Box is a project featured in Evergreen Architecture by gestalten
    Sun Path House was designed, first and foremost, as a place for the well-being of a renowned chef and his family. Commissioned as an extension to their single-story 1930s home, architect Christian Wassmann’s design provides sheltered outdoor spaces for cooking and entertaining, with a self-contained master bedroom and private rooftop above.
    Not just an iconic addition to the Brisbane skyline, Urban Forest is a statement on the potential for greening cities worldwide. This ambi- tious experiment in reconnecting urban environments with nature—for completion in 2024—turns our expectation of high-rise city living on its head. The 30-story tower will house nearly 400 apartments, with a shared rooftop garden and a public park at its base.
    Find out more about Biesbosch Museum Island in Evergreen Architecture by gestalten
    Fei and Chris Precht have envisioned the integration of nature, food production, and sustainable high-rise living. Their imaginative proposal combines an urban farm with a city block, using adaptable triangular modules made from cross-laminated timber (CLT)—a material with a lighter overall environmental footprint than steel, cement, or concrete.
    The Farmhouse by Precht is featured in Evergreen Architecture by gestalten
    Discover more about green architecture in Evergreen Architecture by gestalten
    The hedges produce new, light-green leaves in spring, darkening to rich green and golden brown later in the year— transforming the exterior with the seasons. Pioneers of sustainable architecture since 1985, Kö-Bogen II reinforces Ingenhoven Architects’ position at the forefront of the green building movement.
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    Evergreen Architecture

    Overgrown Buildings and Greener Living

    Buildings placing nature at their core.

    39.90 € Price incl. VAT

    As more of the earth’s surface is swallowed up by the built environment, architects are increasingly advised to integrate urban flora and fauna into their designs. Whether developing green roofs, living walls, abundant indoor courtyards, or balconies that connect interior and exterior spaces, the urge to intertwine nature and architecture has never been more apparent.

    Embracing this ubiquitous trend, Evergreen Architecture surveys a broad spectrum of residential, institutional, urban, and rural spaces. But as change occurs and solutions to the climate crisis are being integrated on the ground, many new questions are posed. How do residents keep moss-covered walls alive? How can a skyscraper uphold the weight of hundreds of trees?

    Evergreen Architecture investigates this movement from the perspective of the architects leading the charge whilst offering diagrams and plans to help the reader understand how each building came together and how it intends to survive.



    Architecture Architecture & Interior Interiors nature urbanism
    Editors: gestalten
    Release date: May 2021
    Format: 24 × 30 cm
    Features: Full color, hardcover, stitch bound, 288 pages
    ISBN: 978-3-96704-010-4

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    As more of the earth’s surface is swallowed up by the built environment, architects are increasingly advised to integrate urban flora and fauna into their designs. Whether developing green roofs, living walls, abundant indoor courtyards, or balconies that connect interior and exterior spaces, the urge to intertwine nature and architecture has never been more apparent.

    Embracing this ubiquitous trend, Evergreen Architecture surveys a broad spectrum of residential, institutional, urban, and rural spaces. But as change occurs and solutions to the climate crisis are being integrated on the ground, many new questions are posed. How do residents keep moss-covered walls alive? How can a skyscraper uphold the weight of hundreds of trees?

    Evergreen Architecture investigates this movement from the perspective of the architects leading the charge whilst offering diagrams and plans to help the reader understand how each building came together and how it intends to survive.



    Architecture Architecture & Interior Interiors nature urbanism

    Editors gestalten
    Release date: May 2021
    Format: 24 × 30 cm
    Features: Full color, hardcover, stitch bound, 288 pages
    ISBN: 978-3-96704-010-4

    FSC™️ (Forest Stewardship Council™️) Certified.

    Payment and dispatch

    The following terms and conditions apply:

    The products are delivered all over the world.

    Dispatch costs (inclusive of legally applicable VAT)

    Domestic deliveries (Germany): 

    Bücherbestellungen werden grundsätzlich kostenfrei versandt.

    Andere Produkte, die keine Bücher sind und deren Bruttobestellwert weniger als mind. 20 € beträgt, werden mit einer 4 € Versandkostenpauschale berechnet.

    From an order value of 20,00 € onwards, we deliver shipments free of cost.

    Deliveries to foreign countries:

    Free shipping to European Union and the USA.
    Free worldwide shipping from 60 EUR/USD order value.

    For orders below 60 EUR/USD the following shipping costs apply:
    European Union & USA : € 0,-
    All other countries: € 40,-

    From an order value of 60,00 €, we deliver shipments to foreign countries free of cost.

    Delivery periods

    Unless otherwise specified in the quote, domestic delivery of goods shall be made (Germany) within 2 - 4 days, for deliveries abroad within 3 - 15 days from conclusion of contract (if advance payment agreed from the date of the payment instruction).
    Please note that deliveries are not made on Sundays and other holidays.
    If you have ordered articles with different delivery dates, we send the articles together in one delivery if no other agreement has been made. The delivery date for the complete order will be the same as that of the article with the longest delivery time.
    Accepted Payment options

    - Payment by SEPA direct debit
    -  Payment via credit card
    -  Payment via Sofortüberweisung [immediate transfer]
    -  Payment via Google Pay
    -  Payment via Apple Pay
    -  Shopify Payments, ideal, eps-Überweisung, Bancontact



    Further details on payment

    When paying by SEPA direct debit, you authorize us by issuing a corresponding SEPA mandate to collect the invoice amount from the specified account.
    You will receive a pre-notification at least 5 days before the date of direct debit collection. Please note that you are obliged to ensure sufficient funds in the account on the announced date.

    If payment is made using a credit card, your credit card account is debited in conjunction with the conclusion of the contract.


    In case of questions, please contact us at the contact details mentioned in the Legal Notice.

    39.90 €

    By creating an entirely new ecosystem, Paris’s Mille Arbres promises to break new ground in our urban reconnection with nature. OXO and Fujimoto collaborated on the project, proposing an undulating form that contains two layers of forest: a lower public park and an expansive rooftop garden. As its name suggests, 1,000 trees have been carefully selected to encourage biodiversity at a level normally unseen in cities.
    Planting and planning for an evergreen future in Evergreen Architecture by gestalten.
    Located in a small valley on Bali’s southern coast, this geometric concrete home was designed as a collaboration between architectural studio Patisandhika and multidisciplinary designer Daniel Mitchell. Inspired by the American architect Ray Kappe, the L-shaped structure blurs the divide between the indoors and outdoors. It creates a series of changing moods through a dynamic layout and material selection.
    25 Verde is a glorious insight into Luciano Pia’s imagination—a vision of treetop living, made reality in the city. Man-made materials and nature sit side-by-side, a tangle of terraces and trees supported by steel trunks that grow from the sidewalk. The project combines 63 homes with a lush forest of more than 200 trees. Inhabitants can observe the changing seasons from homes clad in naturally weathered larch shingles.
    Located on a man-made island in the wetlands of the De Biesbosch National Park, Studio Marco Vermeulen has transformed this local museum: adding a 11,000-square-foot (1,000-square-meter) wing, immersive roofscape, and freshwater tidal park. A green roof blankets the scheme, with a weaving walkway that encourages visitors to explore the terrain. The new wing incorporates generous expanses of floor-to-ceiling, heat-resistant windows, looking out onto the marshland surroundings.
    Rick Joy is known for creating beautiful buildings in wide-open expanses of desert landscape. With this project in Mexico City, he faced the opposite setting—a tight urban plot, surrounded by buildings on three sides. Despite these constraints, Tennyson 205 is a sanctuary that still captures Joy’s characteristic openness and appreciation of nature.
    Like an undiscovered ruin overgrown with vines, there is a romantic imperfection to act_romegialli’s Green Box—making it all the more beautiful. Over time, a cloud of vegetation has covered this renovated building, guided by a pitch roof-shaped support structure that envelops its original stone walls and flat, concrete roof. Using a very limited palette of wood, concrete, and galvanized steel, the design balances the language of industrial and practical spaces with that of a tranquil garden hideaway.
    Green Box is a project featured in Evergreen Architecture by gestalten
    Sun Path House was designed, first and foremost, as a place for the well-being of a renowned chef and his family. Commissioned as an extension to their single-story 1930s home, architect Christian Wassmann’s design provides sheltered outdoor spaces for cooking and entertaining, with a self-contained master bedroom and private rooftop above.
    Not just an iconic addition to the Brisbane skyline, Urban Forest is a statement on the potential for greening cities worldwide. This ambi- tious experiment in reconnecting urban environments with nature—for completion in 2024—turns our expectation of high-rise city living on its head. The 30-story tower will house nearly 400 apartments, with a shared rooftop garden and a public park at its base.
    Find out more about Biesbosch Museum Island in Evergreen Architecture by gestalten
    Fei and Chris Precht have envisioned the integration of nature, food production, and sustainable high-rise living. Their imaginative proposal combines an urban farm with a city block, using adaptable triangular modules made from cross-laminated timber (CLT)—a material with a lighter overall environmental footprint than steel, cement, or concrete.
    The Farmhouse by Precht is featured in Evergreen Architecture by gestalten
    Discover more about green architecture in Evergreen Architecture by gestalten
    The hedges produce new, light-green leaves in spring, darkening to rich green and golden brown later in the year— transforming the exterior with the seasons. Pioneers of sustainable architecture since 1985, Kö-Bogen II reinforces Ingenhoven Architects’ position at the forefront of the green building movement.

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    "Fortunately, the tendency to intertwine plants and buildings is gaining ground. Not only in spectacular designs by architects like Stefano Boeri and Thomas Heatherwick; also existing buildings are getting a green makeover. This book sheds light on this hopeful movement, from small to large, with plenty of practical information so that the reader too can get started."

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