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Jenga-Like High-Rise Connects Residents With the World

Jenga-Like High-Rise Connects Residents With the World


06.22.15

By LIZ STINSON

Read More: http://www.wired.com/2015/06/jenga-l...-connect-world

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For the past century or so, skyscrapers have more or less been built from pieces that are uniformly stacked on top of one another vertically, creating solid, streamlined structures. We did this because it was efficient: it saved space in dense urban environments and was easy to construct. It didn’t hurt that the towers looked pretty cool, too.

- Now imagine that someone came along, plucked a few of those Jenga blocks out of the tower, flipped them horizontally, stuck them back into the edifice, and walked away. What are you left with? Something that looks a lot like the tower that architect Ole Scheeren is proposing for Vancouver. --- The architect,a former partner at Rem Koolhaas’s OMA, recently unveiled his 1500 Georgia project, a residential high-rise near downtown Vancouver. The building looks as though a handful of shipping containers have been inserted into an otherwise normal, glassy tower. Scheeren see it differently. “It gives the sense of arms and fingers reaching out and floating in the sky,” he says.

- It’s an odd-looking building, but Scheeren believes it marks the beginning of a new typology in urban towers. The high-rise, in all its soaring and streamlined glory, has become boring, unoriginal, and detached from its landscape. “When the tower was created more than 100 years ago, it might have been an exciting typology at the time,” he says. “But I think it has become very formulaic, repetitive, and in many ways, not a very engaging mode of built existence.”

- By creating a series of cantilevers toward the middle and top of the building, the architect hopes to encourage residents to connect to the world outside without growing the structure’s footprint. Scheeren began designing the building as a series of modular living spaces that would be stacked vertically. He then selected around 20 of these modular sections and rotated them to fit into the building horizontally. The cantilevers will be made out of steel, while the rest of the building is concrete. The cantilevers’ relatively lightweight material is meant to counterbalance its totally uneven form.

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