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SeARCH’s Green-Roofed Bostoren Forest Tower is a Wilderness Retreat

by , 05/30/11
filed under: Architecture

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The stairs then wrap around inside and take a sudden trip straight out and back agian into the tower. Another level sits high above the forest floor, but a stable floor has been replaced by a stretchy net. Popping your head through one of the circles in the ceiling means finding yourself in the middle of a small theater, which sits below a reflecting ceiling.

The last flight of stairs leads to the top and reveals a 17 meter disk covered with trees. The platform weighs in at 480 tons, set30 meters above ground. With an equally massive concrete plate at the base of the tower holding it in place, there is plenty of space to take in the view of one of  Europe’s most unique wooded landscapes.

SeARCH Architects

Via Eikongraphia

Photographs © Michiel van Raaij

 

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