Budapest, Hungary
City population: 1728868
Duration: 2017 – 2020
Implementation status: Completed
Scale: Micro-scale: District/neighbourhood level
Project area: unknown
Type of area: Previous derelict area
Last updated: October 2021

Metrodom Panorama is a private investment containing four 17-storey residential buildings. Following the model of Bosco Verticale of Milan, the facades of the buildings will be created as vertical forests. In the balconies of the buildings 3 to 6 meter high trees are planned to be planted. The construction was finished and the buildings were opened for residents in 2020. As the building is still very new, the green elements of the building are not fully grown in their size, but in 3-4 years the buildings of Metrodom Panorama will be covered with especially lush vegetation. (Reference 9)

Overview

Nature-based solution

  • Nature on buildings (external)
  • Green roofs
  • Balcony greens
  • Parks and urban forests
  • Pocket parks/neighbourhood green spaces

Key challenges

  • Climate action for adaptation, resilience and mitigation (SDG 13)
  • Climate change adaptation
  • Water management (SDG 6)
  • Stormwater and rainfall management and storage
  • Green space, habitats and biodiversity (SDG 15)
  • Green space creation and/or management
  • Environmental quality
  • Air quality improvement
  • Regeneration, land-use and urban development
  • Promote natural styles of landscape design for urban development

Focus

Other

Project objectives

The main goals of the project include: - building a residential complex with 650 apartments for the purpose of investment; - standing out of the average new-built residential complexes in many ways (Reference 1); - creating an impressive, visually appealing building; - having green as a dominant feature of the buildings; - creating a unity of the building and greenery (Reference 2); - help with local climate regulation (Reference 6); - address air quality regulation; - improve water management.

Implementation activities

Extensive green roofs have been implemented on all four buildings to improve air quality, create green spaces and improve the thermal insulation quality of the buildings. A rainwater collection system has also been installed with the goal of utilizing rainwater for irrigation and decreasing the strain on the drainage systems. More than 4,600 shrubs and 300 trees were planted. (Reference 6) The investors planted a diverse selection of plant species, with the goal of appearing natural, as they would appear in a natural ecosystem. (Reference 2)

Climate-focused activities

Climate change adaptation:

  • Increase or improve urban vegetation cover to help reduce outdoor temperature
  • Implement green walls or roofs to lower indoor temperature and provide insulation

Main beneficiaries

  • Private sector/Corporate/Company
  • Other

Governance

Management set-up

  • Led by non-government actors

Type of initiating organisation

  • Private sector/corporate actor/company

Participatory approaches/ community involvement

  • Unknown

Details on the roles of the organisations involved in the project

The investors made a decision that the development project would follow the model of the Bosco Verticale in Milan: "Green walls, greenery planted on facades can be seen elsewhere, however, the magnitude of greenery and quality of plants on our building have only one predecessor in the whole of Europe, the Bosco Verticale („Vertical Forest") in Milan. Unlike the building in Italy, our project is not only one luxury office building, but an entire residential complex" (Reference 2).

Project implemented in response to ...

... an EU policy or strategy? Unknown
... a national policy or strategy? Unknown (See additional information email correspondence in the references section: the National Building Regulations had to be taken into consideration.)
... a local policy or strategy? Unknown (See additional information email correspondence in the references section: They took into consideration the regulation plan of the district (Kerületi Szabályozási Terv, KSZT) that determined for example the percentage of green surface and the percentage of built-in density.)

Financing

Total cost

€50,000 - €100,000

Source(s) of funding

  • Corporate investment
  • Commercial banks

Type of funding

  • Direct funding (grants, subsidies, or self-financed projects by private entities)
  • Loan

Non-financial contribution

Unknown

Impacts and Monitoring

Environmental impacts

  • Climate change
  • Lowered local temperature
  • Environmental quality
  • Improved air quality
  • Water management and blue areas
  • Improved stormwater management
  • Other

Economic impacts

  • Unknown

Socio-cultural impacts

  • Unknown

Type of reported impacts

Expected impacts

Presence of formal monitoring system

Unknown

Presence of indicators used in reporting

No evidence in public records

Presence of monitoring/ evaluation reports

No evidence in public records

Availability of a web-based monitoring tool

No evidence in public records

References

1. Source link. (2017). The Official Website of Metrodom Panorama. [online] Available at: Source link 19.06.2020].
2. Source link. (2017). Vertical Park. [online] Available at: Source link [Accessed: 19.06.2020].
3. Source link. (2017). Függőleges erdővel épül meg 650 újpesti lakás. [online] Available at: Source link 19.06.2020].
4. Source link. (2017). Bosco Verticale. [online] Available at: Source link 19.06.2020].
5. Source link (2017). Computer-designed pictures of Metrodom Panorama. [online] Available at: Source link 19.06.2020].
6. Source link. (2020). Járatlan utakon a Metrodom zöldtető rendszere. [online] Available at: Source link [Accessed: 13.07.2020]
7. Budapest Főváros IV. kerület Újpest Önkormányzat. (2017). Építési engedély. [online] Available at: Source link [Accessed: 13.17.2020]
8. Source link. (2020). Valódi zöldek és optikai illúziók. [online] Available at: Source link [Accessed: 13.07.2020]
9. Source link (2020) Kizöldült a homlokzat. [online] Available at: Source link [Accessed: 07.13.2020]