香港垂直城市综合体设计

Firm： TOTEMENT / PAPER

Type： Commercial › Office Hospitality + Sport › Hotel Residential › Multi Unit Housing

STATUS： Concept

SIZE： 300,000 sqft - 500,000 sqft

Team: Levon Ayrapetov, Valeriya Preobrazhenskaya, Egor Legkov, Olga Fomina

WHAT

Vertical quarter is a quarter skyscraper, a vertical city. It is a megastructure consisting of urban units - quarters. Each quarter is the vertical plane of buildings and the horizontal plane of their area. Thus, each building of a quarter is focused both on the internal and the external space (the big city). The quarters are put one above another providing for vertical transport communication among them.

HOW

The initial form has been shaped in the archaic way – by installing uprights (posts) supporting a platform (ground plane), which in its turn supports the next posts.

The object image is not changed with a sight angle. No fragment is repeated in the same form expressing the inconclusiveness of the form and the possibility to change it.

The VQ formal spacial structure combines two shaping methods – tectonics and stereotomy applied successively. The city tissue was cut into units with equal area (stereotomy), which were put one on another like construction elements (tectonics), turning the external contour into the general one (silhouette), revealing two types of surfaces: internal structural, live, and external – a layer.

WHAT FOR

Increasing a building scale by an order changes its perception so that it is impossible to apply conventional formal approaches. This fact together with the change of world and the application of 3d design technologies caused the appearance of countless biomorphic structures having no signs of human tectonic forms.

The VQ project is an attempt to solve the problem of architectural shaping – to make the form tectonic again by combining it with a new philosophy, vertical with horizontal, flexibility with rigidity, individual with common, partial with whole, and internal with external.

WHERE

The VQ project was designed for Hong Kong – city with population density exceeding 25,000 people per 1 square kilometer.