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After a weekend in which so many people were getting hot and bothered with roses, champagne and numerous shades of gray<\/a>, perhaps it isn\u2019t such a surprise to find that certain projects conceived at this time of year might invite a little architectural innuendo.<\/p>\n

With that in mind, we present to you Eduardo Camarena\u2019s master thesis project entitled ‘Vertical City in S\u00e3o Paolo<\/i><\/a>,’ a design that explores tropes of futurism with an open invitation to the old-fashioned bane of skyscrapers throughout history: unavoidable comparisons with phallic objects.<\/p>\n

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Visualization of the skyscraper within the urban context of Sao Paolo.<\/i><\/p>\n

Indeed, the vertical city \u2014 part public space, part capsule hotel \u2014 looks like some kind of gargantuan sex toy (app-controlled of course) crossed with those pomegranate-seed life-support pods from The Matrix<\/i><\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Section drawing.<\/i><\/p>\n

The programmatic strategy for the hotel also invites some steamy if slightly<\/i> juvenile quips: The capsules, which form a ribbed surface down the length of the external fa\u00e7ade, are designed on a pay-per-hour basis. So, rather than forming a saucy slant on Sir Norman Foster\u2019s Gherkin in London, Camarena\u2019s conceptual high-rise might be more comparable to a rather racy version of Tokyo\u2019s iconic capsule hotels<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Visualization of capsule hotel interior.<\/i><\/p>\n

Joking aside, the project has some merit in an age where the skyscraper typology is undergoing continued examination and experimentation. Some of the public spaces located high up in the tower invite comparisons with Gensler\u2019s multi-layered Shanghai Tower, set for completion in China later this year, while the public park proposed at the building\u2019s summit could also constitute an improvement on Rafael Vi\u00f1oly\u2019s disappointing rooftop garden<\/a> for the Walkie-Talkie in London.<\/p>\n

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The rooftop oasis proposed for the building’s glazed ‘dome’.<\/i><\/p>\n

So, perhaps we should toss away the bawdy insinuations for a moment and consider this as a serious proposal in 21st<\/sup>-century urban planning: I\u2019ll leave it up to you to decide if you can ignore the more obvious innuendos, and analyze this one with a straight face.<\/p>\n

Come on: you can do this.<\/p>\n

Yours steamily,<\/p>\n

The Angry Architect<\/p>\n

Images via Designboom<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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