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Vertical Village
(Fall 4th Year, 2008)
Since the invention of the elevator, high rise buildings have captured the mind of many individuals. They have become symbols of success and dreams for many cities and societies. They are the symbols by which some cities are most recognized for. However, the one major flaw with traditional means of planning them is that for years, creating the most leasable spaces was the driving force of all plans. If as designers, we wish to persuade people to move back to cities than that logic will no longer work.
Any successful high rise should look at the urban environments as a whole. For this project the most important issue was where do people actually live entire lives, from birth to death. In urban areas that is not in high rise, downtowns, it is in a more human scaled environment of three to five stories. The goal of the design was to cross breed the scale of places like the other four boroughs of NYC, South and North Boston, Southside Chicago, with modern high rise construction.
To achieve this, the building is broken down into over twenty sections of four stories. High speed, skip-stop elevators bring you to a public plaza that is surrounded by what appears to be three smaller buildings. The ‘ground’ level of every four story section is dedicated to small retail shops and institutional spaces such as libraries and healthcare facilities. The upper floors consist of offices, hotel and residential units. To add a sense of individualism to each unit, the form was developed to emphasize and indentify each different function as occupying a different space through need/desire, rather than speculative planning. This helps to identify spaces and units a sense of identity and individualism from the exterior, something not necessarily seen in high rise construction today.
Since the invention of the elevator, high rise buildings have captured the mind of many individuals. They have become symbols of success and dreams for many cities and societies. They are the symbols by which some cities are most recognized for. However, the one major flaw with traditional means of planning them is that for years, creating the most leasable spaces was the driving force of all plans. If as designers, we wish to persuade people to move back to cities than that logic will no longer work.
Any successful high rise should look at the urban environments as a whole. For this project the most important issue was where do people actually live entire lives, from birth to death. In urban areas that is not in high rise, downtowns, it is in a more human scaled environment of three to five stories. The goal of the design was to cross breed the scale of places like the other four boroughs of NYC, South and North Boston, Southside Chicago, with modern high rise construction.
To achieve this, the building is broken down into over twenty sections of four stories. High speed, skip-stop elevators bring you to a public plaza that is surrounded by what appears to be three smaller buildings. The ‘ground’ level of every four story section is dedicated to small retail shops and institutional spaces such as libraries and healthcare facilities. The upper floors consist of offices, hotel and residential units. To add a sense of individualism to each unit, the form was developed to emphasize and indentify each different function as occupying a different space through need/desire, rather than speculative planning. This helps to identify spaces and units a sense of identity and individualism from the exterior, something not necessarily seen in high rise construction today.
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