Groundbreaking Italian urban treehouse

D Pos - Torino (Turin) in Northern Italy is a highly dense populated city that suffers from pollution due to intense traffic and the presence of industries. Unfortunately it is a city where nature and construction haven’t found each other until recently. The Italian architect Luciano Pia created a true groundbreaking Italian urban treehouse that breaks with the traditional concepts of building.


Luciano has an appealing and beautiful vision for how people and nature can live together even in a thoroughly urban landscape like that of Torino. The treehouse complex is called 25 Verde. This designed complex is a woven fife-story mix of lush trees and steel girders. It gives the treehouse urban residents the feeling that they live in a giant urban tree-house that protects them from the city noises and pollution.


Every step in the 25 Verde’s design was taken with the natural integration in mind. The organic and asymmetric shape of the numerous terraces allow potted trees to “sprout” out from the building at random intervals. The ponds in the courtyard provide residents with a refreshing place to relax in the hot Italian summers and the 150 deciduous trees, which lose their leaves in the winter, allow light to filter in to the building during the darker invernal months. The building helps a bit to keep Torino’s air cleaner and isolates the residents from the urban sounds and smells surrounding them.


The project wants to create a flowing and smooth transition space to soften the passage from the inside to the outside where the space is always enjoyable. The smooth and changeable transition is emphasized by a targeted use of the green and the natural building materials so to create a structure which is compact and distinct but also transparent, mutable and enjoyable. The 25 Verde’s complex distinguishes itself positively in the surrounding traditional architecture of the city.


It’s a special building because it’s alive: it grows up, it breaths and it changes since 150 trees with tall trunks cover its terraces. Together with 50 trees planted in the court garden the trees and plants produce oxygen, absorb carbonic anhydride, cut down air pollution, protect the inhabitants from noise, follow the natural cycle of Seasons, grow up day after day and create a perfect micro-climate inside the building so diminishing the fall and rise in temperature in summertime and wintertime.


The streeps in solid wood that floor the terraces filter the sunlight in summer, while in winter they let the light break into the houses. The metal structures look like trees and they “grow” from the ground floor up to the roof while holding up the wooden planking of the terraces: they become entwined with the vegetation to form a unique facade.


One of the aims of the 25 Verde project is the increase of the energetic efficiency. For this reason several integrated solutions have been adopted: continuous insulation, sun protection, heating and cooling systems which make use of the geothermal energy with heat pumps and recycling of the falling rain to water the green.


There are 63 residential units in the building and they are all different and fitted with wide terraces of irregular shapes that surround the trees. The last floor is covered with private green roofs. The project surely shakes up the traditional world of urban architecture and that of the traditional green architecture by integration of trees into the building. Is it a beautiful building? 


Well, we still can’t answer that…on one hand it isn’t on the other hand it is…the more you look at it the more beautiful it becomes in our opinion. When you look at the entire facade it sure is a very special one of a kind design where nature rules and where the inhabitants feel they live in a true treehouse!


When all the green is fully blooming it gives the feeling of living in a tree house with a wide variety of leaves, trees, colors and flowering.







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Groundbreaking Italian urban treehouse

Groundbreaking Italian urban treehouse

D Pos - Torino (Turin) in Northern Italy is a highly dense populated city that suffers from pollution due to intense traffic and the presence of industries. Unfortunately it is a city where nature and construction haven’t found each other until recently. The Italian architect Luciano Pia created a true groundbreaking Italian urban treehouse that breaks with the traditional concepts of building.


Luciano has an appealing and beautiful vision for how people and nature can live together even in a thoroughly urban landscape like that of Torino. The treehouse complex is called 25 Verde. This designed complex is a woven fife-story mix of lush trees and steel girders. It gives the treehouse urban residents the feeling that they live in a giant urban tree-house that protects them from the city noises and pollution.


Every step in the 25 Verde’s design was taken with the natural integration in mind. The organic and asymmetric shape of the numerous terraces allow potted trees to “sprout” out from the building at random intervals. The ponds in the courtyard provide residents with a refreshing place to relax in the hot Italian summers and the 150 deciduous trees, which lose their leaves in the winter, allow light to filter in to the building during the darker invernal months. The building helps a bit to keep Torino’s air cleaner and isolates the residents from the urban sounds and smells surrounding them.


The project wants to create a flowing and smooth transition space to soften the passage from the inside to the outside where the space is always enjoyable. The smooth and changeable transition is emphasized by a targeted use of the green and the natural building materials so to create a structure which is compact and distinct but also transparent, mutable and enjoyable. The 25 Verde’s complex distinguishes itself positively in the surrounding traditional architecture of the city.


It’s a special building because it’s alive: it grows up, it breaths and it changes since 150 trees with tall trunks cover its terraces. Together with 50 trees planted in the court garden the trees and plants produce oxygen, absorb carbonic anhydride, cut down air pollution, protect the inhabitants from noise, follow the natural cycle of Seasons, grow up day after day and create a perfect micro-climate inside the building so diminishing the fall and rise in temperature in summertime and wintertime.


The streeps in solid wood that floor the terraces filter the sunlight in summer, while in winter they let the light break into the houses. The metal structures look like trees and they “grow” from the ground floor up to the roof while holding up the wooden planking of the terraces: they become entwined with the vegetation to form a unique facade.


One of the aims of the 25 Verde project is the increase of the energetic efficiency. For this reason several integrated solutions have been adopted: continuous insulation, sun protection, heating and cooling systems which make use of the geothermal energy with heat pumps and recycling of the falling rain to water the green.


There are 63 residential units in the building and they are all different and fitted with wide terraces of irregular shapes that surround the trees. The last floor is covered with private green roofs. The project surely shakes up the traditional world of urban architecture and that of the traditional green architecture by integration of trees into the building. Is it a beautiful building? 


Well, we still can’t answer that…on one hand it isn’t on the other hand it is…the more you look at it the more beautiful it becomes in our opinion. When you look at the entire facade it sure is a very special one of a kind design where nature rules and where the inhabitants feel they live in a true treehouse!


When all the green is fully blooming it gives the feeling of living in a tree house with a wide variety of leaves, trees, colors and flowering.