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Against this story of contemporary social and architectural fluidity stands the stiff, solitary figure of the skyscraper. Once the penultimate architectural symbol of modernism, the skyscraper seems locked in the bygone fordist paradigm of segregating segmentation and serial repetition. The tower typology is the last bastion of this bygone era, and has so far consistently resisted the injection of any significant measure of complexity.
Towers are still driven by pure quantity. Their volume is generally generated by pure extrusion and their inner space is nothing but the multiplication of identical floor-plates. They are vertical dead end corridors, usually cut off from the ground-plane by a podium. All this is like this for good economic reasons, but there are equally valid reasons why it might be time to tackle the tower typology armed with the new concepts and ambitions of our new architectural language.
Patrik Schumacher
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PROJECT AGENDA
The studio engaged in a series of inquiries to investigate the possibility of breeding buildings within a rich search space. The driving idea is that of designing an evolutionary process from which a large population of potential building designs can emerge rather than designing a building in itself. The studio offered a critical alternative to the conventional model of architectural investigation and was engaging design through physical matter and digital design tools. As a mode of design production the studio produced material computers, physical prototypes and digital models in serial iteration. Orthographic projection was suspended to allow a new design workflow to emerge. We were describing form, tectonics and structural morphologies by an assemblage of physical and virtual objects that narrate aesthetic and performative qualities. In this last sequence the studio endeavored to combine the three techniques that were previously investigated to design a parametric design process to allow for a whole population of design solutions. Subject matter of our design solutions is to challenge the modernist notion of the skyscraper. The students were asked to develop parametric high rise concepts that address the complexity of contemporary urban life and allow for a intense proximity of differences.
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