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Evolo Skyscraper Competition 2010
Facts about Skyscrapers: A building more than four storeys high completely detaches its
residents from the street scene, and thus creates an unsecured urban setting. On
the other hand, Skyscrapers block the
visual continuity horizontally and vertically of the pedestrians walking in the
street up to residents of neighbouring buildings looking onto the urban and the
sky.
Design concept: The main idea of this skyscraper is to
act as a 3-dimensional mesh in a city?s dense urban fabric, allowing visual
continuity from a pedestrian?s eye view on street level and from neighbouring
buildings all along and throughout the skyscraper. This idea is served by three
main points which help to create a secured urban setting as well as encouraging
communal interaction.
Firstly,
this skyscraper is planned to extend only linearly to maintain this see-through
mesh effect all along.
Secondly,
it is elevated from the ground to create an urban node on the street level - stimulating
communal interaction - as well as to allow visual continuity from street level.
Thirdly,
communal platforms are created at an interval of every four storeys high to
create safe neighbourhoods. These platforms have different and random compositions
vertically throughout the skyscraper, so that one platform would not totally prevent
the natural light from reaching the one below.
The Space truss was then an inspiration
to the next step in how to create a 3- dimensional mesh. The idea is what if
people can live inside the members of a Space truss?
Therefore, this skyscraper consists of a Cluster of buildings
and circulation network extending vertically creating itself as an urban fabric
in elevation. In the cluster, each building has 360
degrees view over the city and over
the communal platforms thus creating buildings of equal convenience.
Tetrahedron unit/Structure: The formation of the 3-dimensional mesh
is by means of repetition of the tetrahedron unit. The choice of the
tetrahedron as a unit is because of its diagonal members enabling it to resist lateral
forces which are a Skyscraper?s most important structural challenge, not to
mention, that it has the least number of members of all the rest of the 5 hedrons,
therefore less dense, emphasizing the main concept and further enhancing the outcome
of the project.
The Inner core acts as
a Structural core - with diagonal bracing - enveloping the diagonal circulation,
whereas, the outer skin acts as a building envelope. Circulation: Circulation network
consists of two grids, a vertical and a diagonal one. The vertically travelling
elevators act as the main transportation network, transporting users from one tetrahedron
unit to another, on the other hand, the diagonally travelling elevators (subdivision
from the main network) transport users throughout the building floors of a
tetrahedron unit where their start and end of lines are at the connectors
(community hubs). Connectors where vertical circulation intersects, is an
easier access to the public directly from the urban node on the ground level,
hence, making them more public community hubs while the connectors on the
peripheries act as more private community hubs.
Uses: The skyscraper consists of two types of units, one of which
are the diagonal buildings where residential units, health care, offices, hotels,
educational facilities etc... can be located. The second type is the connector
which acts as a Community Hub where restaurants, theatres, cinemas, places of
worship, gathering spaces, stores, sports and recreation can be located.
residents from the street scene, and thus creates an unsecured urban setting. On
the other hand, Skyscrapers block the
visual continuity horizontally and vertically of the pedestrians walking in the
street up to residents of neighbouring buildings looking onto the urban and the
sky.
Design concept: The main idea of this skyscraper is to
act as a 3-dimensional mesh in a city?s dense urban fabric, allowing visual
continuity from a pedestrian?s eye view on street level and from neighbouring
buildings all along and throughout the skyscraper. This idea is served by three
main points which help to create a secured urban setting as well as encouraging
communal interaction.
Firstly,
this skyscraper is planned to extend only linearly to maintain this see-through
mesh effect all along.
Secondly,
it is elevated from the ground to create an urban node on the street level - stimulating
communal interaction - as well as to allow visual continuity from street level.
Thirdly,
communal platforms are created at an interval of every four storeys high to
create safe neighbourhoods. These platforms have different and random compositions
vertically throughout the skyscraper, so that one platform would not totally prevent
the natural light from reaching the one below.
The Space truss was then an inspiration
to the next step in how to create a 3- dimensional mesh. The idea is what if
people can live inside the members of a Space truss?
Therefore, this skyscraper consists of a Cluster of buildings
and circulation network extending vertically creating itself as an urban fabric
in elevation. In the cluster, each building has 360
degrees view over the city and over
the communal platforms thus creating buildings of equal convenience.
Tetrahedron unit/Structure: The formation of the 3-dimensional mesh
is by means of repetition of the tetrahedron unit. The choice of the
tetrahedron as a unit is because of its diagonal members enabling it to resist lateral
forces which are a Skyscraper?s most important structural challenge, not to
mention, that it has the least number of members of all the rest of the 5 hedrons,
therefore less dense, emphasizing the main concept and further enhancing the outcome
of the project.
The Inner core acts as
a Structural core - with diagonal bracing - enveloping the diagonal circulation,
whereas, the outer skin acts as a building envelope. Circulation: Circulation network
consists of two grids, a vertical and a diagonal one. The vertically travelling
elevators act as the main transportation network, transporting users from one tetrahedron
unit to another, on the other hand, the diagonally travelling elevators (subdivision
from the main network) transport users throughout the building floors of a
tetrahedron unit where their start and end of lines are at the connectors
(community hubs). Connectors where vertical circulation intersects, is an
easier access to the public directly from the urban node on the ground level,
hence, making them more public community hubs while the connectors on the
peripheries act as more private community hubs.
Uses: The skyscraper consists of two types of units, one of which
are the diagonal buildings where residential units, health care, offices, hotels,
educational facilities etc... can be located. The second type is the connector
which acts as a Community Hub where restaurants, theatres, cinemas, places of
worship, gathering spaces, stores, sports and recreation can be located.
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