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By: admin | March - 2 - 2012

First Place

2012 Skyscraper Competition

Zhi Zheng, Hongchuan Zhao, Dongbai Song

China

Housed within 55,000 glaciers in the Himalaya Mountains sits 40 percent of the world’s

fresh water. The massive ice sheets are melting at a faster-than-ever pace due to climate

change, posing possible dire consequences for the continent of Asia and the entire world

stand, and especially for the villages and cities that sit on the seven rivers that come are fed

from the Himalayas’ runoff as they respond with erratic flooding or drought.

The “Himalaya Water Tower” is a skyscraper located high in the mountain range that serves

to store water and helps regulate its dispersal to the land below as the mountains’ natural

supplies dry up. The skyscraper, which can be replicated en masse, will collect water in the

rainy season, purify it, freeze it into ice and store it for future use. The water distribution

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schedule will evolve with the needs of residents below; while it can be used to help in times

of current drought, it’s also meant to store plentiful water for future generations.

The lower part of the Himalaya Water tower is comprised of six stem-like pipes that curve

and wind together and collect and store water. Like the stem of a plant, these pipes grow

strong as they absorb their maximum water capacity. In each of the six stems, a core tube is

flanked by levels and levels of cells, which hold the water. The upper part of the building –

the part that is visible above the snow line – is used for frozen storage. Four massive cores

support steel cylindrical frames that, like the stems below, hold levels that radiate out,

creating four steel tubes filled with ice. In between the two sections are mechanical systems

that help freeze the water when the climatic conditions aren’t able to do so, purify the

water and regulate the distribution of water and ice throughout the structure.

At the bottom of the structure, surrounding the six intertwined water tubes is a transport

system that regulates fresh water distribution to the towns and cities below. The curving

channels connect the mountains to the villages, and are also hold within them a railway forthe transport of people and goods.





Second Place


Yiting Shen, Nanjue Wang, Ji Xia, Zihan Wang

China




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Industrialization and mining are destroying China’s natural settings, especially mountains,

which are excavated to the point of destruction in man’s search for minerals. These

processes don’t just devistate regions’ ecologies; they also displace whole populations of

people, separating them from their homes and also their means of living, as many in these

rural areas work as farmers. The “Mountain Band-Aid” project seeks to simultaneously

restore the displaced Hmong mountain people to their homes and work as it restores the

mountain ecology of the Yunnan mountain range.

This is achieved with a two-layer construction project. The outer layer is a skyscraper that is

built into and stretched across the mountain. By building the structure into, and as part of,

the mountain, the skyscraper helps the Hmong people recover their original lifestyle. It is

organized internally by the villagers to replicate the traditional village design they utilized

before they were displaced. The building’s placement on the mountain means that its height

is mainly determined by the height of the mountain. The design as a whole is one of “dual

recovery:” the Hmong people living on the damaged mountain can keep the unique

organization of space in their village, recreating it within the skyscraper, but they won’t becontributing to the mountain’s degradation. Instead, they help the mountain’s

environmental restoration by recycling domestic water for mountain irrigation. It is this

irrigation system that comprises the project’s inner layer: an irrigation system is constructed

to stabilize the mountain’s soil and grow plants.

The skyscraper is constructed in the traditional Chinese Southern building style known as

Chuan Dou. Small residential blocks are used as the framework: The blocks are freely

organized as they were in the original village, but the framework controls this organization

of blocks into different floors, acting as the contour line in traditional Hmong village.





Third Place


Lin Yu-Ta, Anne Schmidt

Taiwan






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The designer of the “Monument to Civilization” asks you to reconsider what constitutes

‘spectacular.’

Skyscrapers are meant to wow, to impress. But other things within cities are also impressive,

the designer says: “New York, for instance: If we put its annual garbage on a area of a typical

tower footprint, we’ll get a 1,300 meter high landfill tower, which is about as three times

tall as the Empire State Building (450 meters). Isn’t that spectacular?”

As landfill possibilities surrounding growing metropolises disappear and cities fight waste

management issues, the power of trash needs to be reconsidered. The accumulation of

waste, for example, actually creates potential energy-recycle opportunities, such as when

gas is emitted during decomposition. The Monument of Civilization proposal suggests

locating trash vertically in a tower and using the energy generated from its decomposition

to help power the surrounding city. By locating the tower in the heart of the city, energy is

provided in immediate proximity, and money is also saved in transportation costs when

garbage no longer needs to be shipped out of town.

It also able to serve there as a loud reminder of society’s wasteful ways: “The ever-growing

Monument may evoke the citizens’ introspection and somewhat leads to the entire city’s

waste-decreasing and better recycling,” the designer says. Seeing the tower as an “Earth-

Friendliness Meter,” the designer says, means the shorter the tower, the friendlier the city,

as that means less waste is made and more is recycled. “Perhaps all metropolitan cities

would inverse the worldwide competition from being the tallest to the shortest.”

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Underneath the structure lie recycling and wastewater processing facilities, gas and power

stations, a temporary dump and wasted water tank. The tower consists of a garbage brick

wall, gas transmission pipelines, and a solid-waste tank in the center.


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Atelier CMJN

Julien Combes, Gaël Brulé

France

Conceived as a giant turbine the LO2P skyscraper would be located in New Delhi, one of the

most polluted cities in the world due to the exponential increase in population and cars -it is

estimated that number of cars grows by one-thousand every day.

The idea behind this skyscraper is to recycle the old cars and use them as building material

for the new structure. The building is designed as a giant lung that would clean New Delhi’s

air through a series of large-scale greenhouses that serve as filters. Another set of rotating

filters capture the suspended particles in the air while the waste heat and carbon dioxide

from the recycling center are used to grow plants that in turn produce bio-fuels.

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Third Place 2011 Skyscraper Competition

Yheu-Shen Chua

United Kingdom

The current public amenities of the world-famous Hoover Dam in the United States consist

of a viewing platform, a bridge, and a gallery scattered around the entire site. This project

aims to reconfigure these programs by merging them into a single vertical super structure.

One of the main purposes of the project is to allow the water from the upstream river toengage directly with the visitors through a series of containers. A hanging tower above the

700-foot drop into the Black Canyon would be used as gallery and a vertical aquarium.






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Second Place


Yoann Mescam, Paul-Eric Schirr-Bonnans, Xavier Schirr-Bonnans

France

The construction of skyscrapers has been an architectural solution for high-density urban

areas for almost a century for its ability to combine height with a small footprint. Today

there is a constant race between large metropolises and nations to build the tallest

structure, but it has been proven that this typology is sometimes not desirable for medium-

size cities where skyscrapers destroy the skyline and disrupt the infrastructure of a specific

location.

The Flat Tower is a new high-density typology that deviates from the traditional skyscraper.

It is based on a medium-height dome structure that covers a large area while preserving its

beauty and previous function. The dome is perforated with cell-like skylights that provide

direct sunlight to the agricultural fields and to the interior spaces. The dome’s large surface

area is perfect to harvest solar energy and rainwater collection.

Community recreational facilities are located at ground level while the residential and office

units are in the upper cells. An automated transportation system connects all the units,






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which are different shapes according to their program. It is also possible to combine clusters

of cells to create larger areas for different activities.

Although this proposal could be adapted to any medium-size city around the world, it has

been designed for the city of Rennes, France, in an old industrial area.








First Place


Chow Khoon Toong, Ong Tien Yee, Beh Ssi Cze

Malaysia

Some studies reveal that post-release offenses are very high and that criminal’s

imprisonment is just a temporal solution because they do not have the opportunity to

rehabilitate in a desirable community.

This project examines the possibility of creating a vertical prison in the sky where inmates

will have to work and live in a community that will contribute to the host city below. The

prison will have agricultural fields, factories, and recyclable plants that will be operated by

the offenders as a way to give back to the community. They will live “free” until they have

completed their sentence and are prepared to rejoin their communities.

The vertical prison has its own transportation system which consists of different “pods” for

officers, prisoners, firefighters, and other workers.




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By: admin | December - 15 - 2009

1st Place 2009 Skyscraper Competition

Kyu Ho Chun, Kenta Fukunishi, JaeYoung Lee

United States

First Place

This project examines a possible solution to the multiple environmental problems we might

have in the year 2050. If we continue with the same year to year increment in air pollutants

it will no longer be safe to breathe in the outdoors without a filtering device. Neo Arc is the

solution proposed by a group of architects, engineers, scientists, and developers that are

studying how to integrate the latest green technologies in major residential and commercial

developments.

Neo Arc is equipped with solar panels and filtering systems for air and water. Its high-per

formative green façade is covered with vegetation that filters rain water and releases

oxygen into the atmosphere.




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Neo Arc is a continuous surface that is shaped as an artificial landscape that provides shelter

to plants and people. Its enormous water reservoir produces oxygen and sufficient energy

for the entire structure, including its own transportation system. Its façade is designed as a

set of triangles that respond to the program and environment. Its program includes

residential and commercial spaces, transportation system, water reservoir, sky pool, sports

arena, and public parks.



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