Member Initiatives
Mori Building Co., Ltd.
Urban development to restore and conserve biodiversity
Mori Building’s urban design embraces the concept of a Vertical Garden City, a model for a leading eco-friendly city that offers solutions to urban environmental challenges.
Combining segmented properties and creating taller buildings minimize above-ground built-up areas, making the resulting empty space available for people and nature. Such creation of more green spaces and enhancement of their quality attract insects and birds to the city for a perfect urban ecosystem where people and nature coexist in harmony.
In pursuit of this ideal, Mori Building regards each of its development projects as key sites in the ecological network of central Tokyo.
One leading example is ARK Hills Sengokuyama Mori Tower, completed in 2012. The greenery is designed and planned by incorporating studies of the ecosystem, with the aim to build a more enticing environment for living things.
Receiving advice from the Ecosystem Conservation Society to materialize this design, Mori Building is advancing biodiversity initiatives such as planting many indigenous plants from the original natural environment of this area; placing dead trees that provide homes for wildlife such as the Japanese pygmy woodpecker; making the area more comfortable for living organisms through creation of vertical greenery with high greenery coverage; and reusing the soil that was here before construction took place as planting bases around the grounds of the tower.
While limiting the use of pesticides to all possible extent, fallen leaves are kept among the trees and plants to enrich the producers at the bottom of the ecological pyramid. Such efforts led to acquisition of JHEP’s highest ranking AAA certification.
Mori Building also holds environmental events such as wildlife classes and study tours to deepen understanding of biodiversity among the local residents and children.
