Floating Community: Co-evolution of high-rise typology for growing city

Abstract

The mission of the studio is to open an architectural discourse concerning the development of high-rise building in a city context. The discourse mostly concern the meaning and value of tall buildings in modern society. It is important to rethink and reinvent a tall building type that not only to meet the increasing demands of urban dwelling, and financial exploitation, the highrise could contribute to the urban sustainabiliy and provide alternatives of how city operate, connect with urban fabric, and reflect the nature of the city. My concern in my tall design project is to find a new high-rise typology which could integrate with eixsting urban fabric and street life in an intensifying city. When a city population increase, building scales enlarges and the city may grow into metropolitian. Existing buildings in the city may transform into mega block or super tall buildings. Such mega block building would kill the streetscape and block the urban fabric. Residents living in those building would sense isolation from neighborhood and the lost of identity. It is important to tackle the social problems by introducing new strategies to design high-rise residential buildings. The design is to achieve a rich neighborhood and lively streetscape by re-composite the arrangement of high-rise components to create a new kind of tall building typology.Materialization; TALLArchitectureArchitectur