Table 3 Anticipatory analysis of Bosco Verticale

How is it a hybrid space?

• A hybrid of technology and nature. Integrating nature as a component within the built building concept, with the added benefit of forest and vertical farming.

• Combining state of the art green technologies into traditional construction within city centres.

What futures are opening or closing?

• Urban green healthy futures are opening, as potential to apply radically green technologies and practices to redefine architecture and living.

• Potentially closing concrete based buildings—buildings that do not have a greening function might face limited futures.

What insights about the future does it present, particularly concerning crisis?

• Tackling urban pollution and climate change, the project is also a pioneer case for how cities could be more ecological.

• A posi-trend could result in nature being easily and holistically integrated, ultimately approaching biomimicry.

• A nega-trend could be a superficial application of natural elements, contributing to greenwashing.

• In times of crises such as pandemic or high air pollution, residents locked in their apartments still have the sense of greenery surrounding them.

What anticipatory governance does it provoke?

• Construction, usually with negative connotations for climate change footprint is here reversed where it becomes profitable to build healthy buildings.