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The
project questions the possibility of co-existance between a High Rise Building
and the city itself. It is placed in a typical western european major city
qualified by high density of historic urban fabric, materialised in the shown
example at the hystoric Place des Vosges in Paris.
Any
kind of intervention seems to be impossible...
Finding
a way of integrating the High Rise Building into this urban tissue and at the
same time providing it with minimum impact to the surroundings while giving it
maximum surface / program capability is in the core of the research.
We
wanted to avoid the usual way of imagining skyscrapers, the one that imposes
it's own, strange, and often totalitarian law.
The
solution comes from an old anatomy book showing sections through human body...
a thin foot holds a huge body above ground... the man is cut in two.
The
building is composed of three independant steel structures rising each out of a
different spot within the chosen neighbourhood. They come together in a unique
building once the desired height has been reached. Climbing over the existing
surrounding buildings, this united structure serves as a base for the
implementation of various programs, disposed in a hectic way, exactely like the
more usual - horizontal city.
The
lower parts of the three structures create programmatic and typological links
with the existing neighbourhood. A series of shops and small public amenities
serve as connecting vectors, leading the users into the hights of the Building.
On the ground every independant structure fusions with the surrounding… On one
side the city climbs on it. Benches, pavements, street lights colonise it,
following the vertical deformation of the city. On the other, the nature takes its share of the newely
concored city space. The neighbouring park invades one of the individual
structures and leeds the nature to the very core of the Building.
A
series of cores are developped within the structure each having one or a few
functions and typologies of spaces. These cores form independant units within
the global building. Each has it's own facade, it's own rules.
The
whole is wrapped in a global external skin, voluntarily non air or water proof.
It
is made out of ETFE (ethylene-tetraflouroethylene) panels.They play a double
role, in creating a "whole" of this heteroclit environnement and in
energy production. The large surfaces of ETFE facade protect the inside of the
strong winds and at the same time let the air and the rain pass through.
Under
the facade large surfaces are covered with solar cells. The presence of ETFE
improves by 20% their capacity of energy production
The top part of the building contains a
field of wind mills supplying the needed energy for a part of the project.
As
the Building Structure rises, the cores become more and more rare and at the
top liberate completely the steel structure making place for future programs to
come. The example sections show it colonised by a bird's nest, a sort of
"tree top" available for others than humans, leaving place to an
in-between spaces. By doing this we give up the idea of extreme control upon
the built volume and therfore create a real vertical deformation of the space
in the city.
project questions the possibility of co-existance between a High Rise Building
and the city itself. It is placed in a typical western european major city
qualified by high density of historic urban fabric, materialised in the shown
example at the hystoric Place des Vosges in Paris.
Any
kind of intervention seems to be impossible...
Finding
a way of integrating the High Rise Building into this urban tissue and at the
same time providing it with minimum impact to the surroundings while giving it
maximum surface / program capability is in the core of the research.
We
wanted to avoid the usual way of imagining skyscrapers, the one that imposes
it's own, strange, and often totalitarian law.
The
solution comes from an old anatomy book showing sections through human body...
a thin foot holds a huge body above ground... the man is cut in two.
The
building is composed of three independant steel structures rising each out of a
different spot within the chosen neighbourhood. They come together in a unique
building once the desired height has been reached. Climbing over the existing
surrounding buildings, this united structure serves as a base for the
implementation of various programs, disposed in a hectic way, exactely like the
more usual - horizontal city.
The
lower parts of the three structures create programmatic and typological links
with the existing neighbourhood. A series of shops and small public amenities
serve as connecting vectors, leading the users into the hights of the Building.
On the ground every independant structure fusions with the surrounding… On one
side the city climbs on it. Benches, pavements, street lights colonise it,
following the vertical deformation of the city. On the other, the nature takes its share of the newely
concored city space. The neighbouring park invades one of the individual
structures and leeds the nature to the very core of the Building.
A
series of cores are developped within the structure each having one or a few
functions and typologies of spaces. These cores form independant units within
the global building. Each has it's own facade, it's own rules.
The
whole is wrapped in a global external skin, voluntarily non air or water proof.
It
is made out of ETFE (ethylene-tetraflouroethylene) panels.They play a double
role, in creating a "whole" of this heteroclit environnement and in
energy production. The large surfaces of ETFE facade protect the inside of the
strong winds and at the same time let the air and the rain pass through.
Under
the facade large surfaces are covered with solar cells. The presence of ETFE
improves by 20% their capacity of energy production
The top part of the building contains a
field of wind mills supplying the needed energy for a part of the project.
As
the Building Structure rises, the cores become more and more rare and at the
top liberate completely the steel structure making place for future programs to
come. The example sections show it colonised by a bird's nest, a sort of
"tree top" available for others than humans, leaving place to an
in-between spaces. By doing this we give up the idea of extreme control upon
the built volume and therfore create a real vertical deformation of the space
in the city.
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