Sunday, August 29, 2010

Vertical City by Desitecture

Towards the realm of the ridiculous, I'm not a big fan of the form of this building - but like the inclusion of vegetation throughout the building envelope. Via Arch Daily: "Desitecture, a British Architecture Collective, have recently been shortlisted by the World Architecture Festival in the future project-experimental category for their Vertical City in Venezuela."


:: image via Arch Daily

The main concept of the project is to provide housing to eliminate slums, while providing open space and productive agricultural areas for feeding dense urban populations. The one benefit I see to this isn't necessarily using the structure itself for growing food, but the relatively compact footprint offering a lot of building area but taking up very little land.


:: image via Arch Daily

The microclimatic effects have been included in the greenery placed around the structural ellipses. Via AD: "The internal elliptical areas provide , distinct micro climates , within each cup, they will each acquire their own character in terms of vegetation and aerial wildlife, supported by balcony gardens and green loading elements which will accrue over time."


:: image via Arch Daily
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1 comments:

  1. this thing is a utopian design! but i don't believe this would work. the pictures don't match the program at all. the people from the slums are going to live here!! you don't see one on the pictures, i saw a interior picture that looked very luxurious of the project on archdaily...
    i would expect a lot of laundry outside, little kids playing, old people gambling etc. but none of that..
    they also "forgot" the immensive shadow this thing would make on the surrounding area.
    but i have to agree on the veg. thing: it's a good thing they thought about the consequences and chances on nature-related subjects!
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