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

Bostoren Forest Tower is a stunning construction set in the heart of a forested estate in the Netherlands. Taking advantage of the breathtaking views of its dramatic setting, the design is also as much about the journey as it is the destination. Designed by <a href="http://www.search.nl/splitscreen.cfm?Projects/Non-housing/Forest%20Tower">SeARCH Architects</a>, the Bostoren is a fun and playful path-to-point program meant to inspire vistors as they make their way up to the forest treetops. The 30-meter tall <a href="http://inhabitat.com/worlds-first-building-made-of-hundreds-of-living-trees/">observation tower</a> boasts a winding path of architectural oddities that vistors can revel in before they reach the tower's 17 meter disk. The viewing platform sits high in the sky, complete with its own woods in minature.

Set in the<a href="http://www.holland.com/uk/discoverholland/gardens/schovenhorst.jsp"> Schovenhorst Country Estate</a>, the journey begins at the base of the tower on a brightly painted simple stairway.

Pretty soon the ramp curves out of the tower and swoops around, giving a clear view of the surrounding environment before swing back to the center columns.

Visitors will find themselves at the first platform, a wood paneled room open at the end.

Small holes in the panel reveal boxes filled with <a href="http://inhabitat.com/pixelated-birdhouses-sprout-on-city-trees-in-london/">birds nests </a>dotted all along the exterior wall.

The stairs then wrap around inside and the take a sudden trip straight out and then back agian into the tower.

The next space is high above the forest floor by now with only a net as a floor.

Popping their head through one of the circles in the ceiling visitors will find themselves in the middle of a small theater.

Above that is the<a href="http://inhabitat.com/stunning-swedish-treehotel-opens-this-weekend/"> reflecting </a>bottom of the main platform.

Just one more flight of stairs to the top reveals a 17 meter disk surprisingly filled with trees

The platform is 480 ton and 30 meters above ground.

An equally massive concrete plate at the base of the tower holds it in place.

The tower provides plenty of space to take in the view of one of the most unique <a href="http://www.monumentaltrees.com/en/nld/gelderland/putten/146_schovenhorstcountryestate/">wooded lands</a> in Europe.

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