Up In The Squair: Skyscraper As Vertical Continuation Of
Urban Space
BY: ADMIN | MAY - 3 - 2021
Honorable Mention
2021 Skyscraper Competition
Alina
Kandyba, Emil Stefansson, Josefin Antus, Karl Östvall
Sweden
Up in the Squair is
a re-imagination of the skyscraper as a vertical continuation of urban space; a
proposal focused on the experience of the user exploring the dynamics of
spaces, derived from elements found in historic city centers.
The context where
the skyscraper first arose is recognized by its strict grid plan; wide avenues
to fit traffic, not much room for adaptations, nor irregularities and
asymmetries. The skyscraper could be seen as a reflection of this context
following a grid plan logic but vertically with orthogonal circulation; a
common idea of rationally moving from point A to point B unifies building with
the site.
When the skyscraper
was introduced to Europe it faced a more complex situation. A present history
and an architectural dominance exclusive to culture, state, or religion. And as
a result, instead of becoming the core of the city, like New York or Tokyo, the
skyscrapers of Europe tend to be either erected in districts planned for the
matter, like Le Défense in Paris, or in the historic center where old structures
are demolished to give space for the skyscraper, like City of London’s
financial district. Read the rest of this entry »
The Sponge:
Skyscraper To Collect Rainwater For Drinking And Farming In Africa
BY: ADMIN | MAY - 3 - 2021
Honorable Mention
2021 Skyscraper Competition
Lee Jae
Uk, Kim Ji Hoo
South Korea
Water shortage
The African government has invested heavily in education, agriculture, and
medical facilities for the development of the country, but has not been able to
produce clear results. Increasing demand due to rapid urban growth resulted in
the overabundance of the water resources system, and poor management of
resources, weak long-term investment and research on the environment, and a
lack of infrastructure led to many natives’ dependence on relief.
Ironically, the
average annual precipitation in Africa results in average annual rainfall of
1,000 to 2,000 mm. Nevertheless, the reason why water is always suffering from
a lack of water supply facilities infrastructure to collect and store
rainwater. The climate of Africa is divided into dry and rainy seasons. In the
rainy season, there is a lot of rain to flood, but this rain is not used and
flows into the groundwater.
The minimum amount
of water a person needs to survive is 7 liters per day. Urban areas with water
facilities can easily be supplied with water, but Africans in rural areas who
do not receive a minimum supply of water spend 16 hours a day growing water,
and they will never dream of agricultural water. Lack of drinking water and
agricultural water worsened their health.
Lack of water and
sewage treatment facilities
In Africa, where sewage treatment facilities are not available, people solve
feces and urine on the streets and it seeps into the ground. pathogens
are preserved on the ground. One way for Africans to get water is to grow
contaminated water from digging. This water also worsens their health.
Sponge
The Sponge is a water circulation collection housing for residents in rural
areas who can use groundwater due to discharge and collect rainwater in rainy
seasons. Read the rest of this entry »
Pyramids: Origin Of
The First Modern Cities
BY: ADMIN | MAY - 3 - 2021
Honorable Mention
2021 Skyscraper Competition
Adam Fernandez
France
For more than 4,500
years, the pyramids have fascinated me. Man-made for the elite of the early
dynasties, they were built as a royal tomb. Resurrection machine where the
pharaohs made their transition from death to eternal life, this pyramidal shape
is also a magical symbol of regeneration linked to the daily rebirth of the sun.
According to recent
research, the pyramids were built by free men. The excavations carried out near
the pyramids by the group of archaeologists AERA in 2013 have made it possible
to reconstruct the life of these Egyptians. It describes a working town located
south of the Sphinx. They found evidence of animal husbandry, slaughterhouses,
and graveyards there, enough to infer the proper diet and access to medical
care for construction workers, Dr. Redding told LiveScience.
The PYRAMIDES
project aims to offer an alternative to the architects of the past. That of
building new cities based on the same divine laws. Through which the people and
the pharaohs would cohabit together.
This city is
organized around an oasis. It keeps an ecological reserve in its core where
wild flora and fauna share a common shelter protected from the sun. Functioning
as a green lung and natural air conditioner, the inhabitants of PYRAMIDES will
be able to walk there and enjoy a temperate climate.
In the very heart
of the city and the oasis, there is also a place of worship dedicated to prayer
where all roads converge. As for the royal tomb, the basements protect the
relics and sarcophagus of their pharaoh. Read the rest of this entry »
Synonym Tower Uses
Waste From The Nagorno-Karabakh War As Building Materials
BY: ADMIN | MAY - 3 - 2021
Honorable Mention
2021 Skyscraper Competition
Zhang
Zhenpeng, Feng Jialu
China
The
Nagorno-Karabakh region in West Asia is generally recognized by the
international community as a part of Azerbaijan, but it is controlled by
Armenians. Since 1988, Armenia and Azerbaijan have been disputed over the
ownership of Nagorno-Karabakh. In 1994, Azerbaijan and Armenia reached an
agreement on a comprehensive ceasefire. However, the two countries have been
hostile over the Nagorno-Karabakh issue. On September 27, 2020, Armenia and
Azerbaijan broke out into a military conflict. The war caused a large number of
casualties on both sides of Armenia and Azerbaijan. Half of the people in the
Nagorno-Karabakh region lost their homes. The city was bombed and destroyed.
Social security was chaotic. People had to flee to bunkers, dungeons, and
churches. They were worried that they would die at any time. A church in Shusha
has experienced destruction, the interior of the church is incomplete. Both
sides of the war claim sovereignty here. 200 civilians took refuge here at the
beginning of the war. During the war, a couple still insisted on holding a
wedding in the church.
The church has
changed hands several times, sometimes as an Islamic space and sometimes as a
Christian space. No matter what kind of space it is, space is meaningless, and
its meaning comes from life. People left their lives and plunged into war,
forgetting the beauty of life’s common expectations and longings. However,
people can pursue the common meaning in the Synonym Tower, whether it is truth,
goodness, beauty, or divinity, the authentic form aims to erase all forms.
There is no mosque or Christian church here, so the building achieves the
ultimate meaning of its generation and construction—carrying all lives and
manifesting the public meaning, that is, the meaning of peace. Read the rest of this entry »
Printscraper: Rapid
3D-Printed Skyscraper For Reconstruction In China
BY: ADMIN | MAY - 3 - 2021
Honorable Mention
2021 Skyscraper Competition
Liu Yifei, Tian Yu,
Wang Hangdi, Zhou Beiyu
China
For the current
loss of architectural identity and urban renewal issues, we conceived a future
urban renewal system. Based on the extensive use of 3D printing technology in
the future, it will be possible to print sophisticated building bodies and
equipment using different high-strength materials. The city of the future will
become a rapidly reborn diversified life body, and the temporary 3D buildings
that can be quickly rebuilt will replace the permanent buildings as the main
body. The Printscraper scattered in different areas designed by us is like a
mobile operating table in the city, which accurately retrieves, rebuilds, or
repairs buildings.
The Printscraper is
driven by solar and nuclear energy and transfers within the service radius of
the city. During construction, the three auxiliary towers on the side and the
cantilever membrane structure spread out to cover the entire construction area,
using 3D nozzles for operation. The membrane structure isolates noise and dust,
ensuring the daily life of the surrounding blocks to the greatest extent. The
demolished building is processed and stored inside as greening soil and reused
materials. The lower part of the building is equipped with a viewing platform
and a vertical park open to all citizens. People can visit and monitor the
progress of the project while the Printscraper stays in the block, or simply
treat it as a temporary good place to meet others. Read the rest of this entry »
Mood Catcher
Skyscraper Design To Treat Mental Disorders During The Pandemic
BY: ADMIN | MAY - 3 - 2021
Honorable Mention
2021 Skyscraper Competition
Yao Junji, Liu
Yuxi, An Peiyan, Chen Yuxuan, Huang Yunting
China
The development of
modern civilization has increasingly detached human beings from their natural
attributes. Pollution, the fast pace of life, the unprecedented amount of
information, the complexity of social relationships, changes in work and rest
patterns, and differences in consumer orientation have all contributed to the
gradual increase and worsening of mental illness. The outbreak of the COVID-19
pandemic in 2020 poses a huge challenge to world health, both physically and
psychologically. Researchers found from patient health records that within 14
days to 90 days after the diagnosis of novel coronavirus pneumonia, 18% of
patients or seemingly normal individuals were diagnosed with mental health
problems. The results of this clinical study indicate that in the next few
months or more, due to the global pandemic, it is likely to cause a
“tsunami-like” outbreak of mental health problems and psychiatric disorders.
Among multiple
mental health problems, dysthymic disorder is characterized by high prevalence,
high relapse rate, high disability rate, high suicide rate, and high disease
burden, which refers to significant and persistent emotional changes caused by
various reasons, including depression, bipolar disorder, etc., mainly
manifested as emotional highs or lows, accompanied by corresponding cognitive
and behavioral changes. Meanwhile, other psychological problems or diseases are
often accompanied by emotional cognitive impairment, emotional loss of control,
and other emotional problems. Read the rest of this entry »
The Pilgrim
Skyscraper Brings Education To Remote Places Worldwide
BY: ADMIN | MAY - 3 - 2021
Honorable Mention
2021 Skyscraper Competition
Michał
Wachura, Kamil Wróbel
Poland
Problem
Currently, there are over 700 million people in the world who are not able to
write and read. Most of them are women. Almost three times as many do not have
access to a stable education system. Without these basics, people are cut off
from information, knowledge, and truth. Without that they become more
vulnerable to manipulation, social inequalities, exploitation, objectification,
or even slavery.
Solution
We believe that each of the above-mentioned problems can be solved in two ways:
on an ad hoc basis – through recovery policies and programs, and in the long
term – through raising self-awareness and a sense of global community by
providing the necessary knowledge and tools to regions of the world that need
support. This bottom-up proposal also helps in tackling such problems as mas
migration, climate change, and economic crisis after the pandemic.
Project
The project consists of three stages: the first is the production of
specialized research and education units in assembly towers. The second is the
transport of units using flying modules with an airship-based foot system to
selected places on the globe where the teaching systems do not exist or are at
a low level. The third stage is the creation of educational centers that give
people access to knowledge, tools, and technologies of the modern world. Giving
them the opportunity to level the playing field. Read the rest of this entry »
Urban Links:
Suspended Habitable Bridges Above Existing Cities
BY: ADMIN | MAY - 3 - 2021
Honorable Mention
2021 Skyscraper Competition
Xinru
Yang, Jiang An, Ning Sun, Yunwei Pan, Lifa Lin
China
For most local
areas of cities, the content of an urban design is relatively specific. Gerald
Crane once pointed out in the book “The Time of Urban Design”: “Urban design is
the first level of design that studies the relationship between the main
elements in the urban organizational structure. “In urban space design,
architecture is the main factor that constitutes and affects urban space.
Building form and volume have a direct impact on external space. The quality of
individual buildings and group combinations directly affects people’s
evaluation of the urban environment. The expansion of building scale and modern
transportation development has changed the design concept of traditional
architecture. In ancient times, people’s perception of buildings was based on
walking or carriage speed (4~6 km/h), and they experienced 3~5 meters high
vertical facades on both sides of the street: in modern cities, people’s
perception of buildings Based on the driving speed of 30 kilometers per hour,
feel the visual area from tens of meters to hundreds of meters on both sides of
the street. Besides the emergence of large-scale buildings, super high-rise
buildings and super-large comprehensive buildings, the rapid increase in
population density, and the expansion of building scale from the past small
scale to today’s mega-size, all of these have changed The relationship between
man and architecture and the relationship between architecture and city. Read the rest of this entry »
Terra Mycelia:
Skyscraper Regenerates Farming Soil
BY: ADMIN | MAY - 3 - 2021
Honorable Mention
2021 Skyscraper Competition
Linnea
Pettersson, Ludvig Sundberg, Carmen Povedano Olleros, Evelina
Björndal
Spain, Sweden
One of the most urgent
environmental issues today is the degradation of land, which is happening at an
alarming rate. Around 25% of our total land area has already been degraded, and
scientists predict that with 24 billion tons of fertile soil lost every year
due to intensive industrial farming, 95% of Earth’s land will be degraded by
2050.
The importance of
the Earth’s soil lies in its ability to store carbon and nitrous oxide, as well
as hosting complex and diverse ecosystems containing thousands of
microorganisms. Out of these organisms, more than a fifth are different types
of fungi, which play a crucial part in the ecosystem. The root system of fungi,
called mycelium, transforms organic waste into nutrients, binds carbon to the
soil, and binds the soil together, making it resilient to heavy rain and
floods. Mycelium is therefore the starting point of a long chain of processes
that ultimately provides us with food, nutrition, and a healthy planet overall.
However, the
destruction of this chain of events due to modern agriculture is resulting in
soil degradation, making it poor in quality and ultimately infertile. With a
growing population and an increasing demand for food, the Earth’s soil is bound
to be destroyed by industrial agriculture unless something is done. Read the rest of this entry »
Ice-Making
Skyscraper For The Arctic Ocean
BY: ADMIN | MAY - 3 - 2021
Honorable Mention
2021 Skyscraper Competition
Lu
Wang, Shuangjiang He, Ning He, Youjia Lv, Limin Wang
China
Due to the
long-term global warming and “polar amplification effect”, the ice sheet formed
naturally during the Arctic glacial period is much smaller than that reduced
during the melting period, and the Arctic sea ice area has decreased by 95% in
the past 40 years. Scientists predict that by 2040, there will be little ice in
the Arctic Ocean in the summer. Sea ice is an important habitat, migration
channel, and breeding place for polar animals, and plays a key role in
regulating global climate.
Therefore, we
propose a low-energy ice-making method: by reducing the salt content of
seawater to make it easier for seawater to freeze naturally, using the method
of “freezing a huge piece of ice layer by layer” to accelerate the freezing.
When we use seawater, we also use pressure difference to make seawater enter
the building naturally, so the whole ice-making process almost consumes no
energy. In order to make it easier for the ice to form a complete ice surface,
we design the ice cube as a regular hexagon. A regular hexagon is not only easy
to assemble but also not easy to disperse. When a piece of ice forms, it is put
on the sea and pushed to the shore of the ice sheet by an underwater UAV.
Whether it is to make desalinated seawater freeze naturally or to transport
seawater through pressure difference, it is our attempt to low energy
consumption “environmental protection” building. Read the rest of this entry »
Biorefinery
Skyscraper: A Carbon Negative Building For Hackney, London
BY: ADMIN | MAY - 3 - 2021
Honorable Mention
2021 Skyscraper Competition
Daniel Hambly
United Kingdom
The biorefinery
sits atop an old street roundabout, which is directly on the border between the
London boroughs of Hackney and Islington. The site was chosen as it was plagued
by multiple social and ecological issues that an elegant architectural solution
could begin to solve.
Firstly, it is one
of the most polluted areas in Hackney, with levels of n02 reaching 60
micrograms per cubic meter, exceeding the safe 40 microgram level. Similarly,
the roundabout houses an old street tube station which is a well-frequented
stop on the northern line, however, due to the busy nature of the roundabout
above, permeability and access to the station remain poor. Finally, the borough
of Hackney has pledged to reach net-zero emissions across all its functions by
2040 and plans to follow a ‘high tech’ approach to doing so, however little
progress has currently been achieved.
These factors
provide the opportunity to create a meaningful and beautiful piece of
architecture that uses sustainable technologies to produce clean energy and
cleaner air while providing additional housing and office space to the
surrounding fabric. Read the rest of this entry »
Self-Sustainable
Skyscraper For Virus Outbreaks
BY: ADMIN | MAY - 3 - 2021
Honorable
Mention
2021 Skyscraper Competition
Yinan Qin, Bo
Wei, Jingting Yan, Chao Xie
China
Since ancient
times, humans have coexisted with viruses and plagues which—from the Black
Death in the mid-fourteenth century to the raging coronavirus in 2019—threatens
humankind’s survival. The relationship between humans and viruses implies and
gives birth to a new mode of production and lifestyle. The outbreak of the
COVID-19 pandemic has made people pay more attention to public hygiene and laid
more stress on the need for isolation space than ever.
Based on the
premise of the normalization of pandemics, the design features a new mode of
human residence under extreme conditions where infectious diseases break out at
any time in the future. It’s a fully enclosed three-part modular building. The
lower part is a quarantine area for those who contract a virus; the middle part
is a virus monitoring area for those who are in an unknown health status, which
also serves as a buffer zone for people’s commuting and activities; the upper
part is a space of residential units with absolute safety. A vertical structure
connects the three parts with a magnetic levitation device, ensuring their
functioning and mobility among them in the vertical direction. All people’s
traffic and connections go through the health monitoring area in the middle of
the building. This buffer zone is a “window of community” fully controllable
under extreme conditions. Its height changes according to the number of healthy
people, reducing the spread of the virus. Read the rest of this entry »
Cliff Village In
Sichuan, China
BY: ADMIN | MAY - 3 - 2021
Honorable Mention
2021 Skyscraper Competition
Dian
Rui, Shuangyu Teng, Yucheng Feng
China
Problems of the
Cliff Village
Cliff Village is located in Sichuan Province, China. It is an isolated ‘island’
in the mountains which is 800m above the ground deep. Hundreds of years ago,
the ancestors of the village moved here to escape the war. The local villagers
live a self-sufficient life. The only rattan ladder is important transportation
for them to communicate with the outside world. Although the steel ladder has
been rebuilt in Cliff Village, the poverty problem has become prominent due to
inconvenient transportation. Thus, we hope to build a vertical traffic tower to
solve the problem of inconvenient traffic in Cliff Village At the same time, we
hope to increase industrial possibilities in the building to solve the poverty
problem of villagers. Read the rest of this entry »
Post-Pandemic
High-Rise Urban Planning
BY: ADMIN | MAY - 3 - 2021
Honorable Mention
2021 Skyscraper Competition
Shuxian
Li, Qiuchen Zheng, Yujia Hu, Jiaxin Wen
China
The city is divided
into several districts under artificial planning. People walk, commute,
purchase, and outings according to the routes established by the planner. But
in today’s pandemic of infectious diseases, free activities, as usual, carry
the risk of infection, but to prevent and control the epidemic, the city is
blocked and the city is paralyzed, and countless residents lose their freedom.
We imagine that in
the post-epidemic era, in order to avoid the risk of infection caused by
long-distance commuting and purchasing, people’s activities will return from
the city to the community. We imagine that there is a spontaneously formed
skyscraper in the gap between community buildings: the daily necessities (food,
energy, and anti-epidemic products) needed by people are set up on the upper
part of the building, and transported down to reduce the possibility of
pollution. Build up the used space, and if necessary, it can be completely
isolated from the outside. People are no longer bound by top-down urban planning
and district jurisdiction, and spontaneously build their own activity spaces
from bottom to top, realizing freedom from planning to freedom of
creation. Read the rest of this entry »
Pathway Of
Belonging: Multi-Function Skyscraper In Morocco For Immigrants
BY: ADMIN | MAY - 3 - 2021
Honorable Mention
2021 Skyscraper Competition
Leonie
Blum, Katharina Frank, Ritaj Albaje, Simon Sundin
Sweden
The history of man is
a story of nomads, travelers, and migrants. Even though we had a year of
unprecedented restriction in movement due to a pandemic, the demand for free
movement will not disappear. Humankind has always been on the move.
However, not all
move by lust or a sense of discovery. Sometimes you need to leave your home
country. Poverty, war, family, love, the reasons why we migrate are as many as
there are immigrants. But when you have arrived many of the struggles are
similar. Understanding where you are, the customs of the new place, finding a
job, learning a new language, and making a home for yourself.
The skyscraper
named ‘Pathway of Belonging’ is located in Morocco. A quickly developing
country which in recent migration history has only been a pit-stop for people
seeking a new life in Europe. However, due to its growing economy, is Morocco
now an attractive destination country for immigrants. A significant number of
sub-Saharan Africans now call Morocco their home (ca 700 000 people in a
country of 34 million). This building is for them to use. Read the rest of this entry »
Physarum Skyscraper
Cleans Oceans Pollution
BY: ADMIN | MAY - 3 - 2021
Honorable Mention
2021 Skyscraper Competition
Habib Shahhoseini,
Mohaddeseh Eskandarzadeh, Ardalan Kiavar, Saba Salahpour, Ata Rad
Iran
With the
industrialization of cities, the presence of pollutants has become one of the
serious global environmental problems that have caused pollution of soil,
water, air, ocean surface, and even it’s subsurface. The purpose of
participating in this competition is to present a mechanism suspended on the
surface of the oceans called the Skyscraper of Environmental Care that can be a
response to eliminate human environmental pollution in the air, water, and
seabeds at the same time.
In the design
process, a fungal single-celled living algae (called Physarum) with animal-like
behavior (with capabilities such as very high intelligence, self-healing power,
rapid movement and growth, high adaptation to the environment, and ultimately
immortality) that living in the oceans was used as the main constituent element
of the studied skyscraper. Read the rest of this entry »
Time Machine
Skyscraper – High-Tech Residential Tower
BY: ADMIN | MAY - 3 - 2021
Honorable Mention
2021 Skyscraper Competition
Seyed Shervin
Hashemi
United States
Debilitation in
aspects of the built environment is one of the fundamental consequences of the
pandemic.
Time Machine
initiates a novel approach to constructing objects with spatial properties, one
that integrates the construction’s technical solutions along with an aesthetic
solicitude with composition, enforced to immerse functionality as an emergent
property of both. Objects are to exist not merely to express the aesthetic of
the artist’s perception but also to implement a comprehensive interpretation of
the material, composition, and form manifested and entangled within the idea of
multifunctionality. The object is to be operated as a whole with an infinite
scale in multiple directions: Infinite in size, infinite in combination,
infinite in detail, and infinite in function.
We are continually
accelerating to a universe with more possible states, generating all sorts of
intriguing implications. Pandemic nudged our visions to a new experience of the
futuristic life with its compulsory dynamism, its needs to the immaculate
affordance of the built environment, and its rare and disorientating qualities
of space and time. Time Machine is an embodiment of our progressing society’s
social state, calling for an objective critique of modern objects with an
insight into their capacities to boost performance followed by the technical
description of aesthetic. Read the rest of this entry »
Smokestack
Symbiosis Skyscraper Purifies Air
BY: ADMIN | MAY - 3 - 2021
Honorable Mention
2021 Skyscraper Competition
Xuekui
Liu, Yashu Chen, Liyu Ai, Hao Wang, Jialu Xu
China
Economic
development has changed the appearance of the earth, but also put it in misery.
This triggered our thinking: Is development and the ecological environment
contradictory? How to make the relationship between humans and nature become
“symbiosis” instead of “parasitic”?
The historic
mission of Smokestack
Starting from the invention of the steam engine, mankind slowly entered the
industrial society and their life has unprecedentedly improved. As a symbol of
the industrial revolution, factory smokestack has brought prosperity to human
society, as well as many environmental and climate problems. The conflict
between human development and nature is particularly intense in developing
countries. The International Energy Agency predicts that by 2030 there will be
more than 50,000 active coal power stations and millions of factories in the
world, of which 85% of the energy is still fossil fuels. The substances
produced by the burning of fossil fuels can cause – global warming, air
pollution (London smog episode, Smog alert in China), and water pollution.
Smokestack:
Symbiosis
Symbiosis is a mutually beneficial relationship between two different species
in nature. Providing energy and materials, the Symbiosis skyscraper is attached
to the chimney, which can also absorb harmful substances. In the beginning, the
Symbiosis Skyscraper only needed a 3D printing ring, and the printing materials
were completely provided by burning waste and plant fibers, starting from the
bottom of the smokestack and spiraling up and printing around. With the growth
of Symbiosis Skyscrapers, its ability to absorb harmful substances produced by
smokestacks has continued to increase, reducing smokestack emissions. When it
reaches its final form, the factory smokestack will no longer emit harmful
substances and achieve “carbon neutral”. At the same time, the waste heat
generated by smokestacks is used to create nature greenhouses, purify the
surrounding air, and turn the smokestack into a symbiotic building that merges
with nature. Read the rest of this entry »
Inner Skyscraper As
Symbol Of Cultural Strength
BY: ADMIN | MAY - 3 - 2021
Honorable Mention
2021 Skyscraper Competition
Xiaoguang Chen,
Jinting Sui, Xufeng Tai, Xiaotong Ma, Bai Lig
China
In China, Urban sprawl
and overdevelopment have led to serious urban problems. There are crumbling
building blocks in the middle of the city. At the same time, with the
encroachment of land, a large number of local cultures, animals, and plants
disappeared. In this era with the economy as the core, what is worth pursuing,
what kind of future city symbol — “skyscraper” will be? We take the unfinished
buildings, the product of urban sprawl as the carrier, Through modular
customization, lightweight recyclable materials are assembled in factories into
boxes of varying sizes，and implant the
personalized space with culture as the theme that meets the needs of
contemporary society. These boxes are based on the cost control requirements of
the development timeline. Hanging on the traffic core one after another. A
large one-time investment in traditional construction is avoided. Each box
records the cultural changes of the city, and the building continues to grow
with people’s more importance attention to culture. Through the reuse of the
unfinished buildings in the city, this project solves the problem of resource
waste caused by developers’ wrong judgment of future urban construction. Read the rest of this entry »
Urban Parasitic
System: Hanging Programmatic Spaces Between Skyscrapers
BY: ADMIN | APRIL - 22 - 2021
Honorable Mention
2021 Skyscraper Competition
Shuaijie
Li, Yueming Lin, Qian’er Pu, Jiajing Wang, Jinda Liu
China
Today, 55% of the
world’s population lives in urban areas, and this proportion is expected to
increase to 68% by 2050. Living in these high-density cities, the cost of
renting a house is ridiculously high and does not meet the standards of the
general low-economy groups, resulting in the extremely poor quality of life for
the low-economy groups.
In an attempt to
solve this problem, Urban Parasitic System proposes using the existing space in
the city center to provide a livable possibility for the low and medium
economic groups parasitic in the megacities. This design chose to hang various
architectural spaces between the buildings as the main concept of the design.
The existing high-density city is improved by “parasitizing” the design space
on the existing skyscraper space. Read the rest of this entry »