Absence of fences to allow the continuity of the pedestrian spaces between the headquarters of the Lombardy Region, Piazza della Repubblica and Piazza XXV Aprile, creating a pedestrian area that with its 170,000 square meters and 5 km of cycle paths is the largest in Milan. This is the strength of the Library of Trees, a new public park, in Milan, designed by the studio Inside Outside|Petra Blaisse of Amsterdam and realized by COIMA. The park is primarily qualified by the great botanical variety - 500 trees, over 135,000 plants of 100 different species and 22 circular forests - distributed in gardens of contemporary design, where irregular and flowery fields alternate with meadows, small squares, circular forests, a maze and areas equipped with custom furniture.

"A unique realization - comments Roberto Rescia, CEO of CoverHat - which makes innovation of materials and flexibility in the use of space a force. A highly innovative model that leads us to reflect on the requirement to adapt our achievements in this direction ". " Innovation” is the key to the reading and it's given by the materials themselves: in the labyrinth area, for example, a draining solution developed in the laboratories of Bergamo of Italcementi has been used, marketed under the i.idro DRAIN brand, which can rely on a drainage capacity 100 times higher than that of a natural terrain. A plus that allows you to respect the natural water cycle by recharging the groundwater. Sustainable attention and an eco-friendly mood that refers to a typically northern European sensibility, as Pierfrancesco Maran, Councilor for Urbanism, Green and Agriculture, pointed out when the Tree Library was presented: "It is an innovative park, with characteristics referable to the green areas designed in Northern Europe as regards the variety and richness of vegetation. It is a new model of public-private collaboration that we hope to replicate again in the coming years, and which will see the birth of at least 20 new parks in the city".