Flower Tower,Paris, France:

The "  Tower-Flower  ", which can be translated as" Tower of Flowers "by architect Edouard François , is a project that was conducted for the Office of Planning and Public Building in Paris . It was built on the ZAC (concerted development area) of the Porte d'Asnieres in Paris. It is a building of thirty apartments on ten floors, which includes three underground floors.
This building, located at 23 rue Albert-Roussel in the 17th, has the property of being surrounded by balconies lined with potted trees on all sides to the top floor. This is why the building is called "Tower-Flower." For the architect, this is the best way to integrate it into its environment. This idea came to him of the residents of Paris who put flower pots on their balconies. According to the Parisian trend is a way to protect the home against the density of the city .
There are three hundred and eighty pots around the building. All were made ​​of concrete Ductal a matter of not overburdening smaller balconies weight. Plants growing in these pots are bamboo . They are very different species, selected among some 1,300 existing varieties. The architect, who went to look at Portugal , has chosen depending on the adjacent garden and stone buildings all around. The bamboo plants are grasses that can live up to 3000 meters above sea level, they are resistant to low temperatures and wind. Bamboo has long rustling leaves when there is wind. The architect is interested in this property because it adds a sound specific to the building. Plants are also used to distribute heat and light inside the building. To ensure their survival, plants have an automatic watering. This system works with water hoses incorporated metal railings. The pots are mounted directly on the balconies, so that neither the wind nor the inhabitants can not move.
The building entrance is street. Next to the entrance are boxes with colorful letters to residents. There is no hall entrance as such, but merely introduces a porch lift glass. This helps to keep eye contact with nature and see the garden scroll ahead and plant pots. On the other side of the elevator, hallways are lit with neon red. The building is oriented so that the living rooms have an opening on the park, allowing apartments to receive the most natural light as possible.
One of the constraints in the design of the building was that there is no common wall between apartments, so none of the residents do not share the property of a partition. Each decision to develop its housing at its option, it would therefore not be a bearing point. This is why the architect decided to switch the layout of the apartments, a floor on both is the same, while the floors are freestanding .
Despite the constraints, the architect designed the building so that it is uniform and rectangular and rises vertically. It is made of white and gray concrete mixed with microfiber bamboo to solidify. The floor of each floor above to form the balconies on which are fixed pots. The project was completed in 2004 and required a budget of four million euros..
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