In detached high rises
During the last decades, London’s skyline has been populated with high-end residential towers. These developments present many interesting formulations in terms of facades and structural systems. Their idiosyncratic shape and style aims for iconicity.
As an outcome of Santiago’s city center repopulation program, high density slabs have grown as ad hoc extrusions, detached from the preexisting city pattern.
Although both variations present certain communal programs and/or commercial fronts, it is in Shanghai-Suzhou that vertically multiprogrammed towers have become prolific. Shanghai’s booming real estate scene presents several highrises that intermix residential and other programs, reshaping the vertical scale of the urban, thus promising the revitalization of the type.
Could this multi programming be explored in more economic versions of the type? Increasing underground and overground public occupation makes the challenge three dimensional. From underground to upper levels, how do different layers of urbanity appear in a vertical form?