Tower I city I towers
is a city-towers project designed to give back to a land its natural
dimension taking into account the constraints of the current city.
Although it is conceivable on different kinds of lands, Tower I city I towers is here experienced in the city of Marseilles, second largest city of France located in the south-east. Portcity of 240 km2, Marseilles and its suburbs constitute a metropolis of 1,600,000 inhabitants and has a current density of 3,500/ km2.
The city has spread little by little by conquering the surrounding
natural lands, the housing has scattered, becoming denser and denser,
thus creating a disorganized, ultra-urban and totally artificial urban
sprawl.The Tower I city I towers
project offers the opportunity to rethink all the functionalities,
needs and demands of the city, especially in terms of population density
and everything it involves (leisure activities, work, housing,
transportation, etc.), thus allowing the nature to take back its
original place.
The idea is to go back to
the origin, allowing the pine-wood and the vegetation to grow again,
making the rock reappear, offering the earth a deserved fallow-land,
using the potential of lands conquered by the current city to give life
to an alternative city which would offer an unequalled way of life and
give back its place to nature.