Project Overview

Our proposal “Endless Vertical City” it is one of our more innovated ideas about future Sustainable cities that transforms the skyscraper into a stunning, upright ecosystem. The skyscraper would be a great space saver for densely populated cities because it will allow them to expand upward instead of outward. It would help to create much-needed space in crowded city areas and feature its own 'ecosystem'. The building's shape would minimize water loss by reusing water where possible, would maximize passive energy use and reduce artificial lighting, ventilation and cooling needs. Six vertical tubes would support the ramps and would provide vertical transport spaces for people, energy, waste, water and prefabricated modular steel elements for the skyscraper's growth.

Organisation

Sure Architecture

Team

Kam Fai Tai ( Global Director)
Alina Valcarce (Associate Director)
Eliane Billon (Project Architect)

Project Brief

This is an alternative to the usual design of skyscrapers. Rather than superimposing one floor on top of another without real continuity;our project is thought as two endless ramps circumrotating continually and rising gradually with a low gradient from the ground floor to the sky.London’s streets can now be developed both horizontally and vertically in a continuous way.
There is no break anymore, neither between the streets level and the skyscraper, nor between the skyscraper floors themselves. The goal of the design is to conceive an open building that is effective as an inviting and yet powerful symbol in all directions while being permeated by generosity and openness.The different programs of the City are settled continuously along the two ramps. They face each other, and are linked with bridges, interweave mutually in a dynamic vertical and horizontal movement to increase exchanges, communications and interactions.The irregular ramps way create a variety of space and atmosphere. People discover the Tech City when they walk up the slopes through commercial and vibrating streets,huge parks or public places which communicate with auditorium, inside or outside areas, dynamic exchange places or intimate quiet areas. A mix complex and rich system like a real city.

Project Innovation/Need

Six structural steel tubes support the two ramps and enclose the vertical flux (people, energy, waste, water and prefabricated modular steel elements). These elements are directly assembled on the top of the building to extend vertically the six pillars and allow the skyscraper growth with a green site.
To concentrate structure and vertical flux allows open plans and flexible spaces which can be adapted to a wide range of programs. Each firm, shop and institution recognizable from their own facade can settle and evolve according to its needs. The rich variety of materials and textures reflects mixture of the City in height.

Design Challenge

The increase in population and environmental care are problems that even big cities cannot solve, it involves the construction of new spaces to live, work, play, fun and more. Therefore, new architectural projects-for the city of the future want their designs to be self-sufficient, sustainable, offering quality of life for its residents and be environmentally friendly. How stopping the outward expansion of cities and urban sprawls, a problem which is occurring in virtually every major conurbation worldwide?

Sustainability

Addressing the sustainable issues, programs and parts of the City in height share and exchange ideas, energy, water, waste with each other, hence making up an ecosystem. Losses are minimized while reuses are optimized. The skyscraper shape itself is designed to maximize passive energy and reduce artificial lighting, ventilation and cooling needs. There will be less energy we need to produce!
Skyscraper is also shaped by local constraints and orientation, contracted at the bottom to keep distance with nearest buildings and dilated at the top to let in natural light.