During the 2020 Covid crisis, I submitted this competition for a city scyscraper concept: as per manifesto below, this building responds to the environment on all its aspects (insulation, winds, ground location) like a living cell does. The building hosts different programs, including residential, office, and commercial, but it also provides agricultural and industrial components. It follows the "Manifesto" for this competition:
Architecture cannot longer wait for an unlikely political will to respond to the planetary emergencies of overpopulation, pollution, and global warming. Buildings cannot longer ignore their orientation to the sun path, or their local weathering patterns, and they cannot longer be passive consumers of energy and water, and be waste factories. Acknowledging the failure of globalization (which creates more pollution, social inequality, and unsustainable supply chains) architects and building designers must now help implement localization, while creating self sustainable structures. This does not describe a building-island concept (able to subsist within wastly different contexts while ignoring them); rather the idea is of a living cell, able to interact with its context along much of its envelope (membrane) rather than just the point of contact with the topography. Drone techology will allow the CityScraper to interact with its immediate urban context at unprecedented levels. However, buildings of the 21st. Century also must:
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