A new typology of skyscraper

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A new typology of skyscraper

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Residential › Multi Unit Housing
Commercial › Office Retail
Hospitality + Sport › Hotel Restaurant Sports Center
Educational › Elementary School Library
Landscape + Planning › Public Park
Transport + Infrastructure › Parking

This project, fully developed and patented, is a new typology for
high rise/tower buildings and the result of a self-promoted research
started in 2006 on the back of the sustainable city theme.

The evolution process of the global production system is now in full
operation and is driving the industrialisation process towards its
third historical phase; the outcome of such change is once again
noticeable in the major role of cities – some more than others – as the
attraction poles for the ever growing world population. The concept of a
vertical city is therefore the only realistic answer to a sustainable
development in the future, as it allows a high population density,
reduced land waste, commute spaces and infrastructure costs, improved
overall control and safety. The side effect of the current models of
high rise building is the significant reduction of green spaces – both
on site and in public areas, which results in disproportionate,
non-human sized skylines.

The proposed building is a prototype of skyscraper in at least 3
different minimum size typologies that, if combined, can form a
residential settlement, allowing the urbanisation of territories with
very high population density and multiplying the green space available
on the building plot. This type of building can provide for the
accommodation of many people at once and offer a considerable green
space ratio per person at the same time. It contains a public pedestrian
slope designed within a ring of public green areas. The pedestrian
slope follows an upwards path that surrounds, in a spiral manner, and
crosses the building, connecting to other slopes of the same type and
amplifying the public green areas and the ‘high streets’ within the
building. Such solution simplifies and facilitates the pedestrian flow
as well as the multi-functional aggregation of a single building plot,
implementing it with a vast and lush green zone.

This type of building has been designed for the application of the
most advanced eco-sustainable technologies such as the recycling of
phytodepurated wastewater, the photovoltaic panelling for the production
of electricity, solar panels for water heating and air conditioning and
devices to generate an internal microclimate within the public areas in
extreme climate conditions.

The pedestrian slope as a modern architectural element entwines with
some traditional and typically Italian urban spaces and the mythical
roof gardens of the Babylon tower, in a blend resulting in a new
building typology of tower as a possible answer to a sustainable
development of a human sized, user friendly vertical city.

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A new typology of skyscraper

A new typology of skyscraper

Product Spec Sheet

Collaborating Firms

Team