The Rope

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The Rope

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This project embraces the potential for emptiness and stasis otherwise not found within the urban context. The building operates at the scale of infrastructure, providing large scale urban voids and more occupiable space than the largest skyscraper but without the disruptive effects typically associated with urban infrastructures, especially bridges. The project achieves this with the first ever bow structure. Two compression tubes and a stiff-hollow rope combine and offset one another, resolving most forces autonomously. Moreover, the horizontal tower is a more open model of urbanism than its vertical counterpart; allowing for fluid circulation and continuous spaces rather than contained cores and programs resulting from stacked floor plates. The tube structures free the internal logics from the constraints of the ground plane. Now one may be walking over a building over a river, or, under a building hovering overhead. The congestion that is the hallmark of successful urbanism is punctuated with spaces of incredible vastness, providing the unique opportunity to be within the city but detached from it simultaneously.

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Adam Hostetler

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The Rope

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