Urban Forest on the Ground Floor: Native Tree Species Beneath the Tower

The ground floor of a high-rise building is entirely dedicated to vegetation: no driveways or front plazas, but instead planted as a dense thicket of trees resembling a natural forest, primarily with native species. The trees have irregular heights and spacing, with ferns and ground cover at the base. The pedestrian path is an 1800mm wide permeable pavement winding through the trees, without curbs on either side. The building's columns stand directly in the soil, without pedestals at their base. Next to the path is a shallow artificial wetland, less than 300mm deep, with natural earthen slopes at its edges. Photograph after rain, with water glistening on the leaves. Avoid: trees arranged in rows, adding neatly trimmed shrubs, using granite paving for the path, installing standard furniture such as benches and lamp posts.

Translated from Chinese by AI.

高層建築的地面層完全讓給植栽:不做車道也不做前庭廣場,而是種成一片密度接近自然林的樹叢,以在地原生的樹種為主,樹高與間距不規則,底層有蕨類與地被。人行動線是一條 1800mm 寬的透水鋪面步道,蜿蜒穿過樹叢,兩側不設緣石。建築的柱子直接立在土裡,柱腳沒有台座。步道旁有一處淺的人工濕地,水深不到 300mm,邊緣是自然的土坡。雨後拍攝,葉面有水光。避免:樹木排成行列、加入修剪整齊的灌木叢、步道使用花崗石鋪面、設置座椅與燈柱等制式家具。