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Creating greener living environments of trees and branching steel beams disguise this 5-story apartment building in Turin, Italy where they will further develop their concepts for the pathway. Stress is a major threat to human health. Striking, and offbeat designs for planting trees along community streets and in other urban environments could help reduce disease. This natural absorption brings pollution protection to its residents, helping to eliminate harmful gasses caused by cars and harsh sounds from the bustling streets outside combining beautiful, innovative architecture with high functionality, bringing plants up off the ground in an attempt to evade homogeneous urban scene and integrate life into the facade of the residential building.

http://www.architecturaldigest.com/blogs/daily/2015/03/nine-elms-to-pimlico-bridge-competition-article

http://willsull.net/resources/Sullivan-papers/JiangChangSullivan2014.pdf

http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2015/03/a-multi-story-urban-treehouse-that-protect-residents-from-air-and-noise-pollution/