A significant step towards achieving climate goals involves transforming our approach to building design. This can be accomplished by seamlessly blending structures with the natural environment, optimizing material usage through generative design techniques, and harnessing the inherent qualities of materials when incorporating them as building components.
1. Harmonizing structures with the natural environment: Integrating buildings with the surrounding natural elements, such as landscapes, vegetation, and topography, to create a seamless and sustainable relationship.
2. Enhancing material efficiency through generative design methods: Employing generative design techniques to optimize the use of materials, minimizing waste, and maximizing their functionality and sustainability.
3. Utilizing the inherent properties of materials in building components: Leveraging the unique characteristics of materials when incorporating them into the design, ensuring their optimal performance, durability, and ecological impact.
This project is inspired by Amoeba Fusions by onE.GLobe (EK Architecture, PLLC) and redesigned by using the Midjourney AI tool to discover design options quickly. The Amoeba Fusions and Amoeba Fusions V.2 is summarized below.
Amoeba Fusions by onE.GLobe (EK Architecture, PLLC) designed by using Rhino and Grasshopper
Organically grown, living, and breathing structures with everchanging uses
Future of Megastructures
Regenerative high-rise mixed-use development proposal in Midtown West
Proposed Area: 4,207,700 SF
Commercial Space: 671,600 SF
Residential Space: 4595 DU. 2,107,500 SF
Communal Garden: 487,000 SF
Technical Floors: 908,000 SF
Green Roof: 536,800 SF
Self-shading massing
Narrow floor plates to let the daylight in
Eco-facade
• Shell lace structure
• Operable glass panels
• Green walls
• Energy generation with strategically located micro-turbines and flexible, transparent solar cells
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Amoeba Fusions by onE.GLobe (EK Architecture, PLLC) was designed by using the Midjourney AI tool.
Prompt: The Biophilic, Sustainable, Regenerative, Innovative Luxury mixed-use building of the future in Manhattan