Digital Origami Emergency Shelter / LAVA. LAVA’s Digital Origami Emergency Shelter is a concept for an inhabited molecule. The design is based on a water-molecule, referencing the Japanese Metabolist movement’s idea of prefabricated capsules as living space. The base molecule can be shipped as a flat pack, cut out of local plywood, or dropped off by a helicopter. The interior can then be carved out of wood, cardboard, newspapers or other locally available materials. Chris Bosse said: ‘the project plays with ideas of prefabrication and personalised inhabitation, as well as stacking of multiple units, while giving an opportunity for individual expression’. Each unit contains a sleeping space for two adults and one child as well as a little space for eating and reading.
The Emergency Shelter exhibition features shelters by local and international architects and will be on display on the Customs House forecourt Sydney, Australia from 1-3 September 2011. For the exhibition LAVA created a scale model, made from CNC cut plywood sheets. Alberto kalach. Bolles+Wilson. Giancarlo de carlo. Zaha hadid. Vertical Landscape. Vertical Landscape is an urban intervention proposed by Pratt Institute graduate student Sejal Bhimjiani where architecture and landscape appear as a continuous element. The project creates an exchange between rigid urban grids of metropolises such as Shanghai or New York City and “soft” landscape through a series of vertical experiences.
The topological and continuous areas in a multipurpose plaza at ground level transforms into a serene vertical sculptural park, jogging trails, and camping grounds. Sejal describes the project as a new typology that activates and transforms the cityscape at different scales. The structure also defines public and private spaces through an innovative structural ribbon that expands at lower levels. To commemorate the 9th Annual Skyscraper Competition, eVolo is publishing the Limited Edition Book "eVolo Skyscrapers 2" which is the follow-up to its highly acclaimed book “eVolo Skyscrapers”. -> EVOLO SKYSCRAPERS 2 - Limited Edition Book.
West 57th – First Building in New York by Bjarke Ingels. West 57th, designed by BIG-Bjarke Ingels Group, introduces an entirely new residential typology to New York City that will add an inviting twist to the Manhattan Skyline. Durst Fetner Residential (DFR) today announced the design of West 57, a 600-unit 80/20 residential building on West 57th Street between 11th and 12th Avenues.
The building is designed by renowned Danish Architect firm BIG-Bjarke Ingels Group and is their in¬augural North American project. The building’s program consists of over 600 residential units of different scales situated on a podium with a cultural and commercial program. The building will strive for LEED Gold Certification. “It’s extraordinarily exciting to build a building whose architecture will attract visitors from around the globe,” said, Hal Fetner, CEO of Durst Fetner Residential.
The building is a hybrid between the European perimeter block and a traditional Manhattan high-rise. “New York is rapidly becoming an increasingly green and livable city. Citadel Skyscraper. Honorable Mention 2012 Skyscraper Competition Victor Kopieikin, Pavlo Zabotin Ukraine Natural disasters, the threat of technological meltdown and even the possibility of visitors from space all present a need for cities and even countries to reorganize to implement infrastructure that can protect people from possible catastrophes.
The “Citadel Skyscraper” project is imagined for Japan because of the numerous natural and manmade disasters that have struck the region in recent years. The project proposes a three-part implementation of new structures with an end result of protecting the island with a fortress-like defense shield. The first part involves a restructuring of the land use of all of the country’s major cities as residents are moved out of the city proper. Businesses and commercial endeavors will stay located within the cities, but residents will move out to sea and live in self-supporting residential skyscrapers, or citadels.
-> EVOLO SKYSCRAPERS 2 - Limited Edition Book. Mountain Band-Aid. Second Place 2012 Skyscraper Competition Yiting Shen, Nanjue Wang, Ji Xia, Zihan Wang China Industrialization and mining are destroying China’s natural settings, especially mountains, which are excavated to the point of destruction in man’s search for minerals. These processes don’t just devistate regions’ ecologies; they also displace whole populations of people, separating them from their homes and also their means of living, as many in these rural areas work as farmers. The “Mountain Band-Aid” project seeks to simultaneously restore the displaced Hmong mountain people to their homes and work as it restores the mountain ecology of the Yunnan mountain range. This is achieved with a two-layer construction project.
The skyscraper is constructed in the traditional Chinese Southern building style known as Chuan Dou. -> EVOLO SKYSCRAPERS 2 - Limited Edition Book. Himalaya Water Tower. First Place 2012 Skyscraper Competition Zhi Zheng, Hongchuan Zhao, Dongbai Song China Housed within 55,000 glaciers in the Himalaya Mountains sits 40 percent of the world’s fresh water. The massive ice sheets are melting at a faster-than-ever pace due to climate change, posing possible dire consequences for the continent of Asia and the entire world stand, and especially for the villages and cities that sit on the seven rivers that come are fed from the Himalayas’ runoff as they respond with erratic flooding or drought. The “Himalaya Water Tower” is a skyscraper located high in the mountain range that serves to store water and helps regulate its dispersal to the land below as the mountains’ natural supplies dry up.
The skyscraper, which can be replicated en masse, will collect water in the rainy season, purify it, freeze it into ice and store it for future use. Emergency Architecture for Disaster Zones / Transient Response System. The Transient Response System (TRS-1) is a deployable architectural base that quickly assembles a tower to provide immediate shelter for victims of natural disasters such as earthquakes and floods. This structure designed by architecture students Adrian Ariosa and Doy Laufer at SCI-Arc in Los Angeles is proposed for cities like Jakarta which could be underwater by 2025. Once a flood subsides, the architectural base could serve as a rally point with a residential tower and a civic plinth for diverse programs including factories, refineries, and recycling plants. The residential tower is comprised of 3-story modules that adopt an open program to accommodate as many inhabitants as possible with adequate air, light, and space.
The deployment strategy of the TRS-1 follows seven steps: Deployment – The vehicle arrives and deploys the base. The carrier returns to the main factory.Stabilization – The tower expands and plug into existing infrastructural systems. 21st Century Oasis Proposal Wins Taiwan Tower Competition / Sou Fujimoto. An ornate structural system suspending a patch of greenery high above the ground can serve as a concise explanation of the winning concept for the Taiwan Tower Competition for Taichung City. The structure will frame the semi-outdoor interior space and create an elevated urban retreat by providing a green rooftop island for the city inhabitants.
Designed by Sou Fujimoto Architects, the tower is a symbolic landmark with strong sculptural rhetorics. Visible from many points throughout the city, the building reintroduces the beauty of nature into the urban fabric. The building will comprise museum and exhibition spaces, leading visitors toward the rooftop garden.
The facades contain LED lights which recreates the effect of a starry sky, or even Chinese lanterns. To commemorate the 9th Annual Skyscraper Competition, eVolo is publishing the Limited Edition Book "eVolo Skyscrapers 2" which is the follow-up to its highly acclaimed book “eVolo Skyscrapers”. Sustainable Circular Taiwan Tower / STL Architects. The ambition to provoke urban change can be understood as a desire to create an icon such as the Taiwan tower designed by STL Architects that highlights the unique character of Taichung city.
The architects envisioned this reality as coherent blend through an architectural landscape anchored by iconic venues that will satisfy the needs of locals, the industries and future trends. The idea is to generate a flow network that communicates the Taichung gateway city project with the most important landmarks of the city. The skin itself is a system: it is pixilated with glazed openings in the programmed and occupiable zones while permeable with openings in the central area. The degradation of the openings, varying between 20% and 60%, is done in order to achieve greater lightness in the central part of the tower, therefore using less material and saving. The programmed and occupiable parts of the tower are fitted with a double skin. -> EVOLO SKYSCRAPERS 2 - Limited Edition Book. Fibrous Tower Proposal / SOMA. The swarm intelligence systems are used in designing this proposal for the Taiwan Tower in Taichung, creating a bottom up logics in high-rise geometry.
SOMA’s approach was aimed at achieving a multilayered, evocative tower appearance. Through use of algorithmic basis the natural processes applied in the organization of the design determine the visual aspect of the project. The Taiwan Tower showcases future architecture that learns from nature and deploys its underlying principles. The non-hierarchical cluster of vertical geometries emerges from an open field base, letting the surrounding landscape to flow freely between the legs. The biomimetic fibrous lamellas intertwine and connect to form a whole, while applying a set of digital models to organize the performative structure of the tower. The results are overlaid with functional requirements and further developed with the help of evolutionary structural software. -> EVOLO SKYSCRAPERS 2 - Limited Edition Book. Deformscape: Fantastic Free-Form 3D Deck Design Idea.
Deck designs are often complex, layered and faux-naturalistic – but not always. Abstract, dynamic and geometric, this unusual free-form deck design idea involves a single layer of painted illusion but has a profound impact on the observer – whose eye is drawn directly to a single central tree that dominates the artificially enhanced geometric landscape. From each angle, the apparent geometries change and distortions shift, but the focus always stays the same – a conceptual center of gravity derived from a 3D model mapped onto a 2D outdoor surface by the architect, builder and installation artist Thom Faulders. So why stray from the beaten path and do something this different from the norm? Well, it is one way to take advantage of a cramped, bland and simple urban space – transforming a two-dimensional flat patio into a dynamic three-dimensional deck.
Beach and Howe Tower in Vancouver / BIG. The 490-foot-tall Beach and Howe mixed-use tower by BIG + Westbank + Dialog + Cobalt + PFS + Buro Happold + Glotman Simpson and local architect James Cheng marks the entry point to downtown Vancouver, forming a welcoming gateway to the city, while adding another unique structure to the Vancouver skyline. BIG’s proposal, named after its location on the corner of Howe & Beach next to the Granville Street Bridge in downtown Vancouver, calls for 600 residential units occupying the 49-story tower, which would become one of the city’s fourth tallest buildings.
The tower is situated on a nine-story podium base offering market-rental housing with a mix of commercial and retail space. BIG was commissioned by Canada’s premier real estate developer Westbank, established in 1992, with over $10 billion of projects completed or under development, including the Shangri-La luxury hotels in Vancouver and Toronto. -> EVOLO SKYSCRAPERS 2 - Limited Edition Book. Five Finalists for the 2010 International Highrise Award. The International Highrise Award is offered every two years by the City of Frankfurt, Germany, and it is jointly curated by the Deutsched Architekturmuseum DAM and Dekabank. Based on six fundamental criteria including pioneering design, integration into the urban setting and sustainability, 27 high-rises from 16 countries were nominated for the 2010 award.
From the five finalists, the international Jury will select the winner which is accompanied by EUR 50,000 prize money. The announcement of the winner will be made on November 5, 2010. The five finalists are: Aqua Tower. Burj Khalifa. Shanghai World Financial Centre. Mode Gakuen Cocoon Tower. The Met. To commemorate the 9th Annual Skyscraper Competition, eVolo is publishing the Limited Edition Book "eVolo Skyscrapers 2" which is the follow-up to its highly acclaimed book “eVolo Skyscrapers”. -> EVOLO SKYSCRAPERS 2 - Limited Edition Book. Camlica Hill TV-Radio Tower, Istanbul. This TV-Radio tower designed by architects Ahmet Unveren and Seckin Maden will be located on the great Camlica Hill – Istanbul, which has an altitude of 240 meters above sea level. The site consists of 120.000m² in a natural reserve protected by the government.
The project aims to be an innovative 350 meter high tower that would clean the overall mess of the current TV and radio antennas on the site. The project is based on the duality of the natural protected site and the tower. This duality comes up with: functional trauma, formal trauma, and spatial trauma. Instead of accepting the disconnection and fixing it; the intention is to utilize the tower as the functional and formal continuation of the natural protected site. The specified urban space and the view terrace should not be separated as two alternative units by vertical circulation, within each other. -> EVOLO SKYSCRAPERS 2 - Limited Edition Book.
Elevated Market and Culinary School in Paris. Located in the heart of fashion and branded boutiques of Paris, the approach of this project designed by Ayrat Khusnutdinov and Gemawang Swaribathoro “you buy we cook ~ enjoy!” Provides a unique chance to create not just another restaurant but a vibrant social hub fused with a possibility to transform a regular visit to an adventure. At the day-time, the wet market on the ground piazza gives a freedom for the customers to purchase raw food ingredients which they can offer to the students of the school as an assignment in order to try knowledge and improvise their skills by cooking with a random menu.
The ground piazza is also allowed the neighborhood to interact and gather. This idea can be of a mutual system not only for the users/ customers of the building itself, but for all elements around the neighborhood area in particular and Paris in general. -> EVOLO SKYSCRAPERS 2 - Limited Edition Book. Stockholm Waterfront / White Arkitekter. Changzhou Culture Center. Helixxx Pedestrian Bridge for Amsterdam. TLT Tilting Hotel / BIG. Nakheel Harbour Tower to be the World’s Tallest Building / Woods Bagot. Victoria Tower / Wingårdh Arkitektkontor AB Victoria Tower / Wingardh Arkitektkontor AB – ArchDaily. The Living Bridge – Fjords and Parametric Form Finding.