Symmetryscope
Experimental project SYMMETRYSCOPE tryes get to the bottom of symmetry and reveal its possibilities. At first step the liner symmetry was investigated and several columns were made. The principle...
View ArticleWarming Hut Based on Snowflakes Formation
Ice Crystal designed by Virginia Melnyk arrives from a series of aggregations and adjustments inspired by the way that snowflakes and ice crystals are formed. Using computational design to generate...
View ArticleNew Qatar Courthouse
The proposal developed by AGi architects for the Qatar Courthouse restricted competition, organized by the Qatar Government, has been awarded second prize. Institutional buildings need to embody the...
View ArticleFresnel Solar Powered Hydrofoil Trimaran
The Fresnel Trimaran designed by Margot Krasojević has a folding wingsail for a better lift to drag ratio, the sail’s frame is a built up mechanical structure similar to an airplane wing constructed...
View ArticleNoah Oasis: Rig to Vertical Bio-Habitat
Honorable Mention 2015 Skyscraper Competition Ma Yidong, Zhu Zhonghui, Qin Zhengyu, Jiang Zhe China With the increasing demand of energy resources and the exhaustion of inland petroleum, the...
View ArticleVertical Factories in New York
Honorable Mention 2015 Skyscraper Competition Stuart Beattie United Kingdom In the past few decades the world economy has seen a global shift of industry and manufacturing eastwards to the emerging...
View ArticleReversal Strategy
Honorable Mention 2015 Skyscraper Competition Luigi Bertazzoni, Paolo Giacomo Vasino Italy Reversal Strategy is one answer to multiple emerging global questions. A single synchronic action can reverse...
View ArticleAir Monument: Atmosphere Database
Honorable Mention 2015 Skyscraper Competition Shi Yuqing, Hu Yifei, Zhang Juntong, Sheng Zifeng, He Yanan China Nowadays, there is growing problem in global climate. Studies on atmosphere components...
View ArticleTower of Refuge
Honorable Mention 2015 Skyscraper Competition Qidan Chen China Because of facing threat from alternation of the natural growth pattern, deterioration of the global environment and excessive harvesting...
View ArticleLimestone Skyscrapers
Honorable Mention 2015 Skyscraper Competition Jethro Koi Lik Wai, Quah Zheng Wei Malaysia Limestone hills that are mined are doomed to suffer total annihilation, or become remnance of a souless...
View ArticleCybertopia: Future of an Architecture Space, Death of Analogous Cities
Third Place 2015 Skyscraper Competition Egor Orlov Russia For the last few years mankind has accumulated more knowledge than in all its previous history. This factor enables us to say that in the next...
View ArticleInvisible Perception: Shanty-Scaper
Second Place 2015 Skyscraper Competition Suraksha Bhatla, Sharan Sundar India India’s Slum population is expected to surge to 104 million (9% of the national population) by 2017*. As the nation’s...
View ArticleEssence Skyscraper
First Place 2015 Skyscraper Competition Ewa Odyjas, Agnieszka Morga, Konrad Basan, Jakub Pudo Poland Away from everyday routines, in a dense city center, a secret garden that combines architecture and...
View ArticleWinners 2015 eVolo Skyscraper Competition
eVolo Magazine is pleased to announce the winners of the 2015 Skyscraper Competition. The award was established in 2006 to recognize outstanding ideas for vertical living. Since then, the publication...
View ArticleWater Skyscraper in Somalia
Editor’s Choice 2015 Skyscraper Competition Nurzhanat Kenenov Singapore Water availability in Somalia is naturally climatic issue. With extremely low rainfall and much higher potential evaporation, the...
View ArticleFavela Skyscraper
Editor’s Choice 2015 Skyscraper Competition Rodrigo Carranca Hernandez Mexico Project Statement Favelas, slums, hoovervilles or bidonvilles are informal settlements that lack property rights and...
View ArticleGo Vertical: A City Designed for Volume
Editor’s Choice 2015 Skyscraper Competition Margaret Rew, Taylor Hewett, Karilyn Johannesen United States The People of the City have too long been subjected to the free plan: FAR, $PSF, the corridor,...
View ArticleBicycle Skyscraper Network
Editor’s Choice 2015 Skyscraper Competition Si Hoon Choi, Do In Kim, Tae Joon Jeong, Chang Han Lee, Seong Hyun Yoon South Korea The subway provides convenience to commuter during commute time as a...
View ArticleA Thousand Splendid Suns
Editor’s Choice 2015 Skyscraper Competition Bart Chompff, James Park Austria For centuries we have designed our buildings aligned to the sun. We aim to inverse this premise, by aligning the rays of the...
View ArticleFloating Waterfront Village: Trees of Life
Editor’s Choice 2015 Skyscraper Competition Yi Wang, Jin Wei China Design Background Gulao waterfront village as the last ecological area which has traditional characteristics in Pearl River Delta of...
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