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  2. Bosco Verticale - Wikipedia

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    The project was named Bosco Verticale, or in English "Vertical Forest", because together the towers have 800 trees, 5,000 shrubs and 1,500 perennial plants, which help mitigate smog and produce oxygen. These tree-packed high-rises help cities built for density, adding more housing and infrastructure, while improving the air quality.

  3. Baubotanik - Wikipedia

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    Structure made with plane trees for the Baden-Württemberg State Horticultural Show in Nagold. Baubotanik is a building method in which architectural structures are created through the interaction of technical joints and plant growth. [1] [2] The term entails the practice of designing and building living structures using living plants. [3]

  4. Aubreville's model - Wikipedia

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    Aubreville's model is a tree architectural model named after André Aubréville, as he identified this pattern as common in Sapotaceae.It is a monopodial model, and characterized by single axis with rhythmic growth.

  5. Banasura Hill Resort - Wikipedia

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    Banasura Hill Resort is a nature resort in Wayanad District of North Kerala, India; located 37 kilometres (23 mi) away from Kalpetta, the district headquarters.It stands at an altitude of 3,200 feet (980 m) above sea level on a 35 acres (14 ha) plot amidst the mountains of the Western Ghats declared as one of the traditionally preserved sites in the world by UNESCO.

  6. Site plan - Wikipedia

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    Example of a site plan. A plot plan. A site plan or a plot plan is a type of drawing used by architects, landscape architects, urban planners, and engineers which shows existing and proposed conditions for a given area, typically a parcel of land which is to be modified.

  7. Architectural model - Wikipedia

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    An architectural model is a type of scale model made to study aspects of an architectural design or to communicate design intent. They are made using a variety of materials including paper, plaster , plastic , resin , wood, glass, and metal .

  8. Fluting (architecture) - Wikipedia

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    Minoan and Mycenaean architecture used both, but Greek and Roman architecture used the concave style almost exclusively. [3] Fluting was very common in formal ancient Greek architecture, and compulsory in the Greek Doric order. It was optional for the Ionic and Corinthian orders. In Roman architecture it was used a good deal less, and ...

  9. Computer-aided architectural design - Wikipedia

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    Architectural Design and Design Studies, established in 1979, gradually moved to CAAD. [ 7 ] Computer-aided design also known as CAD was originally the type of program that architects used, but since CAD could not offer all the tools that architects needed to complete a project, CAAD developed as a distinct class of software .