Honorable Mention 2020 Skyscraper
Competition
Drilling Water-Scraper: Power Plant And Underwater Recycling Center
BY: ADMIN | APRIL - 20 - 2020
Honorable Mention
2020 Skyscraper Competition
Xuejun Bai, Chucheng Pang, Lei Zhai, Yuyang Sun, Dianao Liu
China
With the accelerating process of urbanization,
people’s demand for energy is increasing day by day. The existing oil, coal,
and other energy can only be used for about 50 years,
and their combustion will bring serious air pollution problems, such as urban
haze, so the discovery and exploitation of new energy is imminent. Recently,
more and more countries have found new clean energy combustible ice in the deep
sea. Its reserves can be used by human beings for 1000
years, and it can only be converted into water and methane, so the exploitation
of combustible ice is very valuable.
In addition, the problem of marine garbage is
becoming more and more serious. It not only causes the damage to the marine
landscape but also brings great harm to marine animals. Among them, most of the
marine garbage is plastic garbage. Because of its structural characteristics,
it will not be easily corroded by the seawater.
Therefore, we come up with the idea of using local materials, turning plastic
waste into 3d-printed materials, as our own building materials, and filling
cracks in the seabed caused by combustible ice mining to prevent secondary
disasters. Read the rest of this entry »
BY: ADMIN | APRIL - 20 - 2020
Honorable Mention
2020 Skyscraper Competition
Ngo Thanh Ha
Tien, Dao Duy Tung
France
According to the report of the Swedish Global
Challenges Foundation in collaboration with the University of Oxford’s Future
of Humanity Institute, there’s a 5 percent chance that in the next 100 years,
humans will be wiped out by a global pandemic or a nuclear war. A century ago,
a strain of pandemic flu killed up to 100 million people—5 percent of the
world’s population. In 2013, a new mystery illness swept the west coast of North
America, causing starfish to disintegrate. In 2015, a big-nosed Asian antelope
known as the saiga lost two-thirds of its
population—some 200,000 individuals—to what now looks to be a bacterial
infection. Faced the risk of Biological warfare (BW)—also
known as germ warfare—which is the use of biological toxins or infectious
agents such as bacteria, viruses, and fungi with the intent to kill or
incapacitate humans, animals or plants as an act of war; and the evolution of
unidentified influenza, are we human beings on our way to meet the end of the
world? Read the rest of this entry »
Floating City: Cultivating The
Gone Land
BY: ADMIN | APRIL - 20 - 2020
Honorable Mention
2020 Skyscraper Competition
Zijie Nie, Chen Shen, Jian Zheng
United States
Affected by global climate change, many countries
and regions are suffering from sea-level rise problems, where people are losing
their lands, plants and animals are losing their homes. The design is based in Kiribati, an island country in the South
Pacific. This reef-preserving country is particularly vulnerable to the rising
sea level issues, and its territory is thought likely
to disappear within the next 60 years.
The design proposes to constructs a series of
wall-like skyscrapers in the offshore waters and combats the problems caused by
rising sea levels in three aspects.
First, by studying the erosion of the coast and the
direction of the ocean currents, the design of the architectural massing is used to slow down the speed of the ocean currents flowing
around the building. With such a method, the sand and mud in the water are able
to deposit as sediment and gradually cultivate the new islands over time.
Second, with the design of skyscraper, land area
submerged by seawater was transferred to the air, and
thousands of residential units were built in the air to provide a place for
people to live and use, protecting them from natural disasters such as
hurricane and flood.
Thirdly, while constructing a vertical ecosystem to
provide greening for people living in it, it can also become a seed bank for
retaining plant diversity in Kiribati and other South Pacific regions.
Meanwhile, a large number of artificial components located between underwater
structures can be a place for coral reef protection and regeneration.
Finally, we hope that through this design, we will
challenge the traditional architectural design thinking—generating land first,
then architecture. It provides a new building mode for Kiribati and other
regions faced with the same sea-level-rise problem—growing land with
buildings. Read the rest of this entry »
Reverse: Reforestation Skyscraper
BY: ADMIN | APRIL - 20 - 2020
Honorable Mention
2020 Skyscraper Competition
Thomas Gössler
Austria
With deforestation being one of the biggest
human-driven environmental problems this tendency not
only has to be stopped but needs to be reversed. Using conventional methods
such a reversal could take decades. The aim of this project is to use
skyscrapers in combination with modern technology to automate the process of
reforestation and re-naturalization.
The problem of deforestation is
publicly known and can be defined as the loss of trees induced by both
humans and other causes. It potentially affects wildlife, ecosystems, weather
patterns, and even the climate and is mainly caused by either the natural loss
of trees due to climate change and increasing devastation, especially in hot
and dry areas or the manmade reduction of forest area which includes farming,
grazing of livestock, mining, drilling and accounts for more than half of all
deforestation. In Malaysia and Indonesia, forests are cut down to make way for
producing palm oil; whereas in Brazil cattle ranching and farms—particularly
soy plantations—are the key culprits. Many organizations are fighting to plant
new trees. But despite such efforts, between 1990 and
2016, 1.3 million square kilometers of forest have been destroyed. Read the rest of this entry »
BY: ADMIN | APRIL - 20 - 2020
Honorable Mention
2020 Skyscraper Competition
Victor Hugo Azevedo,
Cheryl Lu Xu
United States
At the beginning of the 20th Century, flying was
one of the greatest achievements of humanity and the world was mesmerized about
the possibilities that were about to open up. In that era of ingenuity,
aviation was regarded as a romantic endeavor, a
promise to tie people together and make the world smaller.
A century later, humanity is finally able to assess
the magnitude of that feat that once was regarded as a
miracle. Airplanes were at the centerstage of Great
Wars, great shifts in geopolitical power, and gave rise to an
ever-growing international elite of frequent flyers. The world of today is a
different place, and the undeniable success of commercial aviation meant that
flying airplanes has become one of the most substantial contributors to climate
change.
A Tale of Two Issues
At the same time, we are in the middle of one of the biggest aviation crises
for the aircraft manufacturer Boeing. Thousands of their newly designed 737 Max
are unable to fly and are stored in airport facilities across America. What if they never fly again? What happens when the aviation
industry slows down? And what to do with the
significant number of decommissioned planes in storage facilities in the desert
such as Victorville?
Meanwhile, on the ground, the world has a gigantic
housing shortage and many marginalized social groups are unable to find a place
to live. Not too far from the aircraft storage facilities, the county of Los
Angeles has 60,000 people that have no place to live. A chunk of this
population happens to be military veterans, who are denied
the opportunity to start new lives as civilians due to the high cost of living
and inadequate housing supply, as well as general stigma around post-traumatic
stress disorder. How to spatially tackle this
social problem? Read the rest of this entry »
Tesseract Skyscraper: Time Based Ownership Incentivisation Model
BY: ADMIN | APRIL - 20 - 2020
Honorable Mention
2020 Skyscraper Competition
Bryant Lau Liang Cheng
Singapore
Skyscrapers, as its name suggests;
refer to the vertical ambition to reach towards the skies and reside among the
clouds. The tallest building often soars over others dramatically; operating as a symbol of power and icon of might. This
supremacy is unquestioned – yet the reign is often ephemeral and bounded by the
constraints of time – since newer buildings can almost always
eclipse this height in due time by harnessing newer technologies or
regulations. A never-ending competition for height results – leading to
emerging trends of taller buildings that are severely detached from the ground
levels and out of human proportion; casting harsh shadows over
mankind and existing as a built form of social oppression. In response
to these conditions – this project proposes a time-based approach with
individual and community involvement, to redefine the notion of the skyscraper
as a social apparatus instead of a capitalistic one. Read the rest of this entry »
BY: ADMIN | APRIL - 20 - 2020
Honorable Mention
2020 Skyscraper Competition
Ju Hwan Lee, Jin Ah Kim, Jong Min Choi
South Korea
Background
Among all environmental issues, air pollution is the most pressing and complex
environmental problem nowadays. As WHO announced, most of the world’s
population lives in an inappropriate air condition. But
we concern air quality which is mainly related to inland regions despite water
covers about 70% of the planet’s surface.
The ocean is not immune to these deep environmental
issues. Lots of smoke from the land, ships going between continents, docking
facilities, and HVAC systems in ships still use fossil fuels and emit smoke.
Especially, the decrepit engine produces a large number of pollutants due to
the use of low-quality fuel and its incomplete combustion. This contaminated
air moves around the ocean and has already affected water quality, acidity and
the marine ecosystem. Read the rest of this entry »
RootScraper: Terraforming In Permafrost
BY: ADMIN | APRIL - 20 - 2020
Honorable Mention
2020 Skyscraper Competition
Beomsu Kim, Sanghun Kim
South Korea
Change of Terra – Terraforming in Permafrost
If the greenhouse gas increases more than 940 ppm (parts per million) by the
year 2100, the coastal and inland area that inhibits 750 million people will be
submerged from the year 2050, and about 29 percent of the Earth’s surface will
be desertified. This means approximately a quarter of
people from all over the world will be affected by
climate change. Also, since 2018, the rate of climate
refugees constitutes about two-thirds (18 million) of worldwide refugees (28
million). Therefore, if a settled environment has been
collapsed, people should migrate to a new base. We focus on permafrost,
which is frozen northern half, as the people’s new
base. If the global temperature increases continuously, Russia’s Siberian and
permafrost (22.8*10^6 km2), which is more than double
the area of the States (9.8*10^6 km2), will be able to accommodate a lot of
climate refugees, and it will also get ideal climate.
However, the thickness of ice is about 80 m and the
ground of permafrost, which is consisted of polygonal patterned wetland and
ice-wedge, is still inappropriate to develop the infrastructure and natural
forest. Moreover, new puddles and waterways, which were
produced by global warming, accelerate the stratum instability and may
act as a channel that makes carbon dioxide and methane go through to the air,
and this will cause more serious global warming and air pollution. Therefore, a
strategy is required to be able to establish the settlement at the unsettled
land and atmosphere. We suggest the terraforming of permafrost by a design
structured with a systematic mechanism. Read the rest of this entry »
BY: ADMIN | APRIL - 20 - 2020
Honorable Mention
2020 Skyscraper Competition
Jiang Donglin, Yue Kaiyun, Tian Shaohong, Dai
Mingqi, Ma Xinyue, Zhu
Yilong
China
Tulou is a traditional residential building in Fujian Province. Its
architectural form is closely related to local
people’s farming activities and ancestor worship activities. But
because it is built for defense purposes, all the space used is an inward
closed space. The thick outer wall of the earth building becomes the space
boundary, which confronts the external danger and provides shelter for the
internal. The interior is open to the patio and ancestral hall, and life
sacrifice activities are included under the protection of the wall. This
building attempts to build a high-rise building on the top of the original
earth building, and gradually reverse the internal and external relations and
turn internal to the external.
The new building grows on the original earth
building. The external wall of the new building extends upward from the
original rammed earth wall, and the wall is gradually
enlarged from the bottom to the upper window. At last, the wall is gradually transformed from the wall to the thin
beam-column. The material is transited from the heavy
rammed earth to the light modern steel column. The internal courtyard extends
upward from the transparent to opacity and solid, and gradually becomes the
cylinder structure of the new building. Through changes of the external rammed
earth wall and the internal colonnade, the original inward space is gradually transformed into outward space from the bottom
to the top. Under this change, the internal and external relations of the
original space are replaced. Read the rest of this entry »
BY: ADMIN | APRIL - 20 - 2020
Honorable Mention
2020 Skyscraper Competition
Finbar Charleson
United Kingdom
CONCEPT
The project proposes a timber high rise in downtown Vancouver combining public
cultural programs with the technical and legislative processes of a successful
land claim for the expansion of indigenous territory. The timber tower stands
in direct dialogue with the steel and glass structures of downtown Vancouver,
offering a contemporary interpretation of the traditional totems and Longhouses
of the Northwest Native Cultural region, making a clear statement about the
ambitions of the region’s tribes. Read the rest of this entry »
BY: ADMIN | APRIL - 20 - 2020
Honorable Mention
2020 Skyscraper Competition
Jingxuan Yang, Jingwen Na, Tianhao Wu, Hangyi Guo
China
‘McFashion’, which is
represented by H&M, ZARA, and GAP, has become a trend and spread all over
the world. ‘McFashion’ is a sales model
which always provides the latest clothes at the lowest prices. A ‘McFashion’ brand can launch more than 10, 000 saleable
garments a year, and the average cycle from design to shelf is only about two
weeks. But the debate over the environmental ethics of
fast fashion is heating up.
According to a report, human beings over 100
billion pieces of clothing are consumed every year.
Overall, 92 million tons of waste dumped into landfills each year comes from
the industry. A separate report found that about 35 percent of microplastic pollutants are emitted
while washing synthetic textiles, mostly by fast-fashion brands. It is clear
that the environmental concerns caused by ‘McFashion’
should raise our attention. Read the rest of this entry »
New York Customized Edition Skyscraper
BY: ADMIN | APRIL - 20 - 2020
Honorable Mention
2020 Skyscraper Competition
Taiming Chen, Zhendong Long
United States
Abstract
What are the social trends and changes that are
affecting the development of skyscraper typologies? What is the future for
those existing super-tall residential towers that have similar forms and
structure systems? What is the next-decade expectation toward residential
skyscrapers? How will the skyscrapers respond to the increasing needs in urban
density?
Design Gesture
In this project, we are exploring a new typology of
tower design by bringing up the idea of “customization in mass-production” for
those supertall residential skyscrapers. Architecturally, the design is to
utilize the existing structure as the basis and add the new hanging structures
in sky lobbies to allow the additional spaces to hang outside of the towers.
Programmatically, individual needs, which are varied
in time, become the focus of post-built design development. Residents can
individually customize their cubic spaces as they need, and the building owner
will hang them in front of the residents’ doorway. The fundamental concept in
the project is about the users’ engagement in the after-built development
process of the tower – the further tower shall have the capability of housing
their changing needs architecturally and programmatically. Read the rest of this entry »
BY: ADMIN | APRIL - 20 - 2020
Honorable Mention
2020 Skyscraper Competition
Alberto Roncelli
Italy
Wildfires started immediately after the appearance
of terrestrial plants, 420 million years ago. Natural fires can have beneficial
effects on native vegetation, on animals and on ecosystems that have evolved
with wildfires. The problem has arisen in recent decades, where we are facing
increasing intensity in large fires caused by humans (arsons and climate
change). In the case of large and heavy forest fires, it is common to have a
totally destroyed ecosystem and, in some cases, the inability to regrow. In
recent months we have dealt with the devastating cases
of the Amazon rainforest and the bushfires in Australia with over 12.35 million
acres of scorched earth and 480 million dying animals. Which role can
architecture and architects play in this scenario? Can we suggest new
approaches for ecosystem recovery? Read the rest of this entry »
BY: ADMIN | APRIL - 20 - 2020
Honorable Mention
2020 Skyscraper Competition
Adham Sinan Abdallah Hameedat
Palestinian Territories-Bethlehem
There’s no room for hope when there is no action. Actions are hope, amid
impending danger of looming disaster. Alarms of demise are ignored.
When hope is scarce due to inaction towards an immediate and radical response,
comes carbon floss as a political statement to counter absurd/destructive
reluctance policies, spurring and promoting hope for action as reassurance for
humanity. Read the rest of this entry »
Stockholm Mill Skyscraper: Hedonistic Resilience As Landscape
BY: ADMIN | APRIL - 20 - 2020
Honorable Mention
2020 Skyscraper Competition
Yiran Fu, Zhen Meng
China
The project is located next to the campus in
Stockholm, where, as a result of the study, water pollution
has been a persistent problem. What we want to focus on is the climate crisis
and the relationship between building and environmental impact. Our design is a
machine driven by wind power to absorb the pollution in the seawater while
purifying the seawater and providing fresh water for the residential building
on top.
This tower is a self-sustainable public
infrastructure. At the same time, it also has the function of enjoyment.
Tourists and residents can visit the process of the energy conversion process.
This project shows that sustainability is not a burden but should improve the
quality of people’s lives and could also be aesthetic and articulate to make a
dynamic experience. It’s built right in the middle of
the sea and is now part of everyday activities. The tower is ecologically,
economically and socially sustainable. Read the rest of this entry »
Magnetic Space-Scraper: Artificial Space
Magnetosphere
BY: ADMIN | APRIL - 20 - 2020
Honorable Mention
2020 Skyscraper Competition
Adam Fernandez
France
MARS, a mythic red planet and God’s incarnation of
the Roman wars are indispensable in the conquest of space today.
This planet is situated in
the sun’s zone of habitability, but it currently rests in an inhospitable state
for humanity. Previously, this planet was known to
have living conditions similar to those on Earth as it contained both oceans
and an atmosphere. Today, Mars has lost its magnetic field and is struck by solar winds. As a result, Mars is deprived of atmospheric pressure and of water. This star
has transformed itself into a cold and radioactive world with temperatures
averaging -53° C.
Nevertheless, research is advancing and theories
are claiming that it will be possible to colonize Mars by terraforming it. NASA
developed a concept presenting the creation of an artificial magnetosphere
located at the specific site, called Lagrange L1, which is between Mars and the
sun. At this specific site, it is necessary to create an object that generates
a magnetic field with an intensity between 1-2 teslas
that is capable of protecting Mars from cosmic rays. Read the rest of this entry »
Taobao Tower: Cyber-Mall Skyscraper
BY: ADMIN | APRIL - 20 - 2020
2020 Skyscraper Competition
Gu Jiaxi, Zuo Minghao, Mu Rongxuan. Feng Gang (Tutor)
China
As an important type of urban architecture,
shopping malls have been profoundly affected by the
rise of e-commerce platforms in recent years. The existence and organization of
their buildings are constantly changing. The cyber mall
and the commercial space, in reality, are constantly interacting with each
other and co-evolving. As one of the world’s largest e-commerce platforms, Taobao fully demonstrates the strong demand and continued
vitality of the Chinese market. Such a “skyscraper” in cyberspace has aroused
our strong interest. We hope that by realizing Taobao,
Representation to create a possible skyscraper to reveal the current connection
between architecture and the information world.
We chose the project location over the highly
contemporary Guomao overpass in Beijing, China. This
highly dramatic and representative place will better accommodate and inspire
the functional setting and contemporary attributes of our architecture.
The building consists of a pedestal connected to
the urban transportation system, a mainframe, and numerous movable commercial
cabins. The pedestal connected to the city ensures the stability of the entire
building, and at the same time serves as a medium to transmit the energy
required for the operation of the building; the mainframe is made of
high-strength metal. Inside the frame is an elevator that can move in both
vertical and horizontal directions. The track network constitutes the internal
transportation system of the building; the movable cabin is the key to the
building’s innovation and future. The unified modular combination ensures
effective universality and integrates multi-functional such as retail,
catering, and leisure. Commercial cabin movement is achieved
by drone traction. Read the rest of this entry »
BY: ADMIN | APRIL - 20 - 2020
Honorable Mention
2020 Skyscraper Competition
Zhong Chen, Wenheng Wang, Gengshen
Zhai, Naiqiang
Yu, Peng Zeng
China
Background
Hong Kong is one of the most densely populated regions in the world. The per
capita living area in Hong Kong is only 15 – 20 square kilometers. Many people
find it difficult to live here, but most people in Hong Kong are reluctant to
leave Hong Kong. Housing prices are also not cheap in Hong Kong,
the price of residential buildings in Hong Kong is higher than that in Tokyo,
Shanghai, Beijing, New York, Singapore, and other cities, ranking second in the
world after Monaco.
Under the daily impression of how prosperous and
luxurious Hong Kong is, there is a group of people living in an environment
that is impossible to imagine. “Coffin
room” is one of them. The coffin room is divided up and down on
the basis of the original plate room. It is converted
into six small rooms, each of which is about 1.5 square meters. Some people can’t even stretch their legs when lying down. Another
famous example is “cage house”, which is a sleeping place surrounded by barbed
wire. It’s like a cage for raising livestock.
These people living in the “cage” are called “cage
people” vividly.
In order to improve the living environment and
expand land use in Hong Kong, people seem to have racked their brains. A
designer in Hong Kong has designed a kind of “snail house” with a sewer pipe as
the shell. It covers an area of 9 square meters and is
about 2.1 meters high. It is already a quite large house in
Hong Kong where land is extremely valuable. In addition, the Hong Kong
government has proposed the “Lantau Tomorrow” plan on land supply. It plans to
build an artificial island of 1700 hectares in Lantau and provide up to 400000
residential units. It is expected that the first batch
of residents will be realized in 2032. Read the rest of this entry »
BY: ADMIN | APRIL - 20 - 2020
Honorable Mention
2020 Skyscraper Competition
Surush Ameli, Sharareh
Faryadi, Laya Rafianezhad, Soroush Attarzade
Iran
After thousands of years of living on the earth,
have the man found a way to treat the mother of nature or is it still conflicting with it? Nature has always made all its
sources available for mankind without any
expectations! As a result of the development of
technology and increasing the exploitation of nature, many problems and issues
are occurring on the earth, climatically and globally; which cause the reaction
of nature. According to the statistics of natural disasters such as floods and
earthquakes, this reaction has been far increased. The
reaction of humans to these disasters is a result of the interaction between
natural and human forces. Sometimes this reaction is to deal with these
disasters through technology and industry, and sometimes there is no way than
giving up and facing many financial and life losses. Read the rest of this entry »
BY: ADMIN | APRIL - 20 - 2020
Honorable Mention
2020 Skyscraper Competition
Xiangyu Zhang, Jingwei Tang, Qiuyuan
Yang, Linxiao Li, Pengfei
Li
China
The Mekong River is the river of life in Laos which is the only inland country in Southeast Asia. Khone Falls is the largest waterfall in the world, which
provides an important financial resource for local fishermen.
In the rainy season, the waterfall brings an abundant variety of fishes which only clusters around the rapids of the Khone Falls. It is not only hard but also dangerous for fishermen to catch fishes there. In the dry season, the
water flow is almost dry, which shuts off the supply of fishing on which its
economy depends. Fishermen can only build bamboo dams
and ropes that are used for fishing in the rainy season. Read the rest of this entry »
Tubular Bioreactor Algae Skyscraper: Transalpine
Energy Network
BY: ADMIN | APRIL - 20 - 2020
Honorable Mention
2020 Skyscraper Competition
Johannes Schlusche, Paul
Böhm, Raffael Grimm
Austria, Germany
A fair distribution of resources is the basis of a
well-functioning society. Pipelines seem to be an important part of such a
distribution in the context of energy, but are always the focus of political
conflicts and often encounter local dislike. A densely developed pipeline
network with its infrastructure is an important requirement for the global
economic system based on oil trading. The climate crisis we are currently
facing must be reason enough for us to rethink these systems to get independent
of oil and gas, which at the same time requires the development of new ideas
for the reuse of these pipelines.
The European continent has a vast network of
existing oil and gas pipelines like the transalpine oil-pipeline
which connects the Italian seaport Trieste with Germany, special the
metropolitan area of Munich. It is 470 kilometers long and has a dimension of
100 centimeters each tube. The network primarily serves to supply the
refineries in southern Germany but is also connected
to other metropolises in Europe via the extensive infrastructure. The towers are designed to be connected to this specific distribution
system for alternative use of the pipelines. New systems for renewable energy
generation have been known for a long time, but
finally, they have to be implemented on a large scale. Decentralization and
focus on resources in the respective areas should be in the foreground. Algae
as energy resources are in their beginnings and are seen
as high potential. Extensive research work has dealt with algae as an energy
source in recent decades. As a biofuel, they are up to 6 times more efficient
than e.g. comparable fuels from corn or rapeseed. Read the rest of this entry »
BY: ADMIN | APRIL - 20 - 2020
Honorable Mention
2020 Skyscraper Competition
Yahia Ahmed Yahia Kheder
Egypt
It doesn’t require many
fires or many people to deforest a whole country over a certain period of the
earth’s life. Deforestation drivers are; human impacts through deforestation,
overexploitation, promotion of faster-growing tree species, clear cut forestry,
improper management, air pollution, animal grazing, and many more (Euforgen).
There are different cases of countries used to be
much more wooded and now become among the worst examples of deforestation. Basically, the soil is exposed in parts, then it starts
washing away or blowing away. That is what we see in a very large part of many
countries. Seeing those trees setting out there dead in the landscape without
having money to do something with the land becomes a global challenge.
This proposal aims to maintain the evolutionary
potential of forests’ trees. To support growing more forests and better
forests, and to make the land more productive and more able to tolerate the
pressures we put on it. Moreover, increasing forestry in developing countries
raises people’s living standards and improves life’s conditions. Through
providing firewood, food, building materials, shelters, and increases the
potential sustainable green stack for the solar biomass. Read the rest of this entry
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