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LES BALLES Tower for Technophiles
SIZE
1,000,000 +
LES
BALLES:
MIXED-USE
TOWER FOR TECHNOPHILESCONCEPT:
As a showcase of
ever-advancing materials and an innovation of tower type, Les Balles
demonstrates where the skyscraper is headed: a kit of parts, rapidly prototyped
to perform/respond to ever-changing environmental, social and economic
conditions. ICON RECYCLED:
As a repurposed modernist
icon, Les Balles pay homage to Le Corbusier’s cruciform-plan towers of
the Plan Voisin while frontier
technologies project it into the future.
The fertile urban fabric of Paris
is envisioned as the site.
PANELS:
The superstructure consists
of wafer thin CFRC panels (Carbon Fibre Reinforced Concrete.) This ultra-high
modulus material is 200% stronger, 10% stiffer and has 1000% the ultimate tensile strength of mild steel-reinforced
concrete and results in an iridescent, poly-textured panel. These
Cartesian-folded fins sandwich circulation spaces served by double scissor
stairs and high-speed express lifts. TUBES:
An array of hollow
structural glass-ceramic beams 2.5 m square pins the assembly together
laterally. Like a glowing pegboard, they double as light-streaming corridors
serving the pods.
BALLS:
The space-pods are
lightweight monocoque "balles" of thin shell construction. Like papier-mâché, foam insulation is thermoset over an inflated
urethane balloon vapour barrier. Fiberglass is then molded
over this structural foam infill like a surfboard. The sphere is
hyper-efficient in triangulating forces and super strong, allowing for
free-planned interiors and expansive views through cut-out slot windows.
ADAPTABLE:
Modular and easy to
transport in 4, 7 and 11 m diameters they accommodate one, two and three
bedroom configurations for both hotel and condo. Reconfigurable, they can be
moved to different storeys as desired making the skyscraper readily adaptable.
Larger diameter pods contain amenity spaces including theatre, gym, business
centre, planetarium and a pool.
PLUG-AND-PLAY: Like
a colony of cliff dwellings or a space-bubble diagram made real, the skyscraper
of the future will be an ultra-light assembly of dynamic plug-and-play spaces.
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BALLES:
MIXED-USE
TOWER FOR TECHNOPHILESCONCEPT:
As a showcase of
ever-advancing materials and an innovation of tower type, Les Balles
demonstrates where the skyscraper is headed: a kit of parts, rapidly prototyped
to perform/respond to ever-changing environmental, social and economic
conditions. ICON RECYCLED:
As a repurposed modernist
icon, Les Balles pay homage to Le Corbusier’s cruciform-plan towers of
the Plan Voisin while frontier
technologies project it into the future.
The fertile urban fabric of Paris
is envisioned as the site.
PANELS:
The superstructure consists
of wafer thin CFRC panels (Carbon Fibre Reinforced Concrete.) This ultra-high
modulus material is 200% stronger, 10% stiffer and has 1000% the ultimate tensile strength of mild steel-reinforced
concrete and results in an iridescent, poly-textured panel. These
Cartesian-folded fins sandwich circulation spaces served by double scissor
stairs and high-speed express lifts. TUBES:
An array of hollow
structural glass-ceramic beams 2.5 m square pins the assembly together
laterally. Like a glowing pegboard, they double as light-streaming corridors
serving the pods.
BALLS:
The space-pods are
lightweight monocoque "balles" of thin shell construction. Like papier-mâché, foam insulation is thermoset over an inflated
urethane balloon vapour barrier. Fiberglass is then molded
over this structural foam infill like a surfboard. The sphere is
hyper-efficient in triangulating forces and super strong, allowing for
free-planned interiors and expansive views through cut-out slot windows.
ADAPTABLE:
Modular and easy to
transport in 4, 7 and 11 m diameters they accommodate one, two and three
bedroom configurations for both hotel and condo. Reconfigurable, they can be
moved to different storeys as desired making the skyscraper readily adaptable.
Larger diameter pods contain amenity spaces including theatre, gym, business
centre, planetarium and a pool.
PLUG-AND-PLAY: Like
a colony of cliff dwellings or a space-bubble diagram made real, the skyscraper
of the future will be an ultra-light assembly of dynamic plug-and-play spaces.
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