Mix Up: Tall Towers as Catalysts for Social Interaction by Experimental18

Experimental 18 | Architectural Association | 2019-2020

MIX UP:

Tall Towers as Catalysts for Social Interaction

Experimental 18 | Architectural Association | 2019-2020

MIX UP:

Tall Towers as Catalysts for Social Interaction

Table of Contents

5 Introduction 7 13 19 25

Case Study: CCTV (OMA) Case Study: de Rotterdam (OMA) Case Study: Linked Hybrid (Steven Holl Architects) Case Study: Shanghai Tower (Gensler)

Margherita Canali: Grow-Rise

Damian Kam: Fashion Highwalk

Jihyun Choi: BUSINESSing NET

Diana Dulina: A-HUB

Sofya Zhuravlev: CoWork, CoLearn, CoCreate

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Brian Chung: The Digital Zoo

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Elliot Watt: Startup Accelerator

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Pierre Zebouni: Elevated Sanctuary

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Sungho Choi: The Garden City

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Angelina Kiryukhina: Last Mile Delivery Centre

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Vian Rasool: Museum for the Senses

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Tutors:

Viviana Muscettola Melodie Leung Nhan Vo Students:

Angelina Kiryukhina Brian Chung Damian Kam Diana Dulina Elliot Watt Jihyun Choi Margherita Canali Pierre Zebouni Sofya Zhuravleva Sung Ho Choi Vian Rasool Zeena Ismail

A special thank you to the following individuals for generously sharing their time and knowledge with us:

Alvin Huang Ana Araujo Chris Caroll Faaiza Lalji Jack Newton James Khamsi Javier Quintara de Una Leonora Lang Marco Vanucci Patrik Schumacher Paul Edwards Peter Murray Steve Watts Vince Ugarow

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Experimental 18 explores the interrelationship between tall towers and the creation of places for social interaction and production. The unit consists of second and third year students at the Architectural Association. The design of tall towers has been shaped and governed over time by a matrix of civic agendas, financial and physical forces resulting in a differentiated skyline reflecting greater and more intensified urban density while remaining isolated and limited in connectivity. In an era of increasingly limited natural resources, how can vertically arranged physical spaces be responsibly informed by and encourage contemporary forms of social communication? Can towers maintain the connective qualities and scale of a village community with the energy of an active and global metropolis? The unit began by collectively researching existing tower typologies: examples of residential, commercial and mixed use towers in various cities around the world. The framework for the analysis and design of towers centres on the interrelated systems of STRUCTURE, ENCLOSURE, and MOVEMENT. With this understanding, an alternative set of programs was investigated as sites with the potential to be arranged vertically. Projects were located within the City of London, with the design for areas of connectivity to include attention to the ground condition, underground and above ground amenities, and the possibilities and challenges afforded by vertical atria, nested public and private spaces and a mixed program. The results were critically assessed against existing models of performance, function and efficiency. Each student developed their design proposal as a synthesis of the existing tower typology enfolded with the alternative vertically arranged programs as a process of exploration to understand if the architecture of tall buildings can provide improved human and community scaled hubs to work, live, and socialize.

Grow - Rise Margherita Canali Data has shown that the UK uses 72% of its landmass for agricultural practices, however it still imports nearly half of the food it consumes. Additionally, on average, vegetables travel 2400 km from farm to consumer, causing extra emissions prior to consumption. With an increasing population of 9.7 billion people by 2050 the demand for food is increasing, calling for smarter and more resilient solutions to feed the world, such as hydroponics, which do not require the use of soil or natural light. Therefore, independently from the season or weather conditions, crops are able to grow all year long. The proposal aims to reintroduce farming practises to the city centre, in order to make them accessible to the population, both on a pedagogical level, as well as on a physical level, offering fruit and vegetables at km 0. Furthermore, it aims to rehabilitate the river Thames, becoming the main fuel to water the crops, as well as a new host of public spaces. The project challenges the traditional horizontality and combination of different programmes, such as hydroponic farm, market hall, bed and breakfast, and offices. Hydroponics, represented by a rotatory belt wrapping the tower, are at the heart of the project. The hydroponic belt interacts at different moments and times with every programme. According to how, and when this interaction happens, hydroponics generate a unique relationship to each programme, creating either physical or psychological levels of enclosure and wellbeing.

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Hydroponical Oxymoron The project will exploit and unveil the oxymoron behind hydroponics. On one side the industrial, almost artificial nature of the production areas. On the area, the wellbeing generated by the plants.

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Projectâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s potential The project aims to the rehabilitation of the Thames, with the creation of farming pods and new public spaces, floating of the river.

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Projectâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s scale The tower will be a mix of offices, bed and breakfast, market hall and farm. Hydroponics will be learned and accessed by the whole city, as well everyday workers as well as temporary tourists.

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The Proposal The proposal is composed of a main tower volume, on land, which is connected, through an elevated bridge, to floating structures on the river Thames.

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Ground Floor Condition The project offer five separate access points. The main public one, from the embakment. The farm entrance, connecting to the podium and floating structures. B&b entrance. Finally, office and BOH entrance, form the back.

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The Hydroponic Belt The heart of the project is an hydroponic belt wrapping around the tower volume. The belt contains various vegetables and fruit, which will grow within the double skin facade.

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The Rotating Hydroponic Belt The belt is in costant rotation, allowing for all the crops to benefit from the same exposure to natural sunlight. Additionally, the gradient of colour represents the different species of crops growing within the belt.

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The Hydroponic Belt Visitors will be able to walk through and within the hydroponic belt. Additionally, the belt will allow for natural ventilation through the building. These technical details illustrate the mechanism behind the rotation of the belt.

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Projectâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s scale The project aims to the improvement of the whole city, whilst assuring a good service to the local shops, as well as to the individuals.

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The Journey The journey throughout the tower happens at different scales, through different layers of enclosure and movement, generated by all proposalâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s components, from the hydroponic belt, to the physical structure, to the visitorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s movements.

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Office Floors Office floors are located in the lower portion of the tower. The hydroponic belt interacts with all floors at different points, creating moments of wellbeing, together with providing natural shading on the floors. Employees benefit from the exclusive access to the â&#x20AC;&#x153;wellbeing floorsâ&#x20AC;&#x153;, where their encouter with hydroponic plants will create moments of physical or emotional wellbeing.

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Market Floors The tower hosts two markets. One located in the middle portion of the tower, the other at the top of the tower. A green hydroponic core connects alla market floors and allows farmers to hand pick fruits and vegetables. The top market, instead, hosts a sky bar.

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Bed & Breakfast Floors Tourists can decide to spend the night at the b&b, or take classes to learn about hydroponics practises and food production. Each floor is punched through mezzanine levels, which represent a stage of the farming and market procedures. Walls and floors are extremely flexible, which allow to create a cosy â&#x20AC;&#x153;home away from homeâ&#x20AC;&#x153;.

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Structure - Enclosure - Movement The relationship between structure, enclosure and movement is constant. The way the permanent internal structure relates to the outer skin and the rotatory belt, creates different moments of enclosure, which according to the different programs achieve a different feeling and meaning, creating either physical or emotional levels of wellbeing.

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Facade Studies Different materials have been tested on the proposal, from timber, to metal and string. Each material manages to express a different aspect of the proposal, creating optical effects, which enhance the rotatory movement of the hydroponic belt.

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A “closed loop“ The drawing illustrates all of the wildlife involed in the proposal. Indeed, it exaplins how each element contributes in creating a “closed loop“, hence, how the whole proposal will help reducing waste.

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FASHION HIGHWALK Damian Nicholas Kam

The Fashion Industry has always faced a lot of scrutiny, from its consumerist fast fashion culture, to its sustainability issue. A spectre of crises have always been looming in the fashion industry, but there has never been any change. However, with the arrival of COVID-19 situation. It breaks the shiny façade of the industry by exposing the immense operational carbon business model of the industry and leading the collapse of the industry overnight. The FASHION HIGHWALK is tower proposal aims strengthen the framework of industry, and also support sustainable fashion starts-ups under the industry’s Darwinian culture, by condensing the whole fashion industry, from event hosting, production, recycling, and advertising, into a single tower. Which will in turn create hyper-localized circular economy within the City of London. In terms of Program, the tower consists of museums, offices for sustainable fashion startups, retail, event spaces, recycling, co-working spaces, and a transportation hub. This mix of programs doesn’t only benefit from each other to foster upcoming fashionistas, but also encourage interaction between ‘fashion people’, white collar office workers, and tourists. Effectively challenging the current business model of the industry, by bringing designers closer to the customers. The tower is not just a cultural ghetto, but also a social catalyst which knits into the city fabric.

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Preexisting Conditions of the Fashion Industry Behind every piece of cloth we wear hides the ugly truth of environmental and labor exploitation.

Fashion Crisis under the Coronacene Consumerist Culture of the Industry backfired as the collapse in supply and demand leads to overstocking and financial depression.

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Movement Diagram The tower is situated in the crossing between Gracechurch Street and Fenchurch Street. The busyness of 2 streets and the nearby Leadenhall Market will create an abundance of footfall to my tower.

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Monument Station Underground Galleria An underground galleria is carved out to connect my tower to the underground infrastructure through partially repurposing the leftover southbound northern line after the Bank Extension. The advantage of this is two folds; firstly the new tunnel redirect footfall from the almost full capacity Bank Station to my tower, given that both exits take 6 minutes to go to the Leadenhall Building. Secondly, the tunnel will provide step free access to Monument Station. The tunnel then spirals up into my tower, creating a seamless transition between horizontal to vertical. The tunnel occupied by event spaces, which the spiral will help create different cluster and sizes of event spaces. The event spaces are then subdivided to spaces from public museums to private atriums for private gathering, and from bottom to top.

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ViewingSpace Gallery Plan (EVENT MODE) Viewing Gallery / Event Plan 150 seats Catwalk Show 1:250

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Spiraling Landscape Floors - Museum & Co-Working The event space floor space in the first volume is a set of landscape floor plates which spirals around the central atrium, and a secondary atrium axis which cuts diagonally from North to South. The purpose of this design move is bring light into the space, and maximize visual exposure to the shop front windows.

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Amphitheatrical Co-Working Space The central atrium is slightly stretched out to allow visual exposure to the windows of the office space, but also vice versa, to maximise the views to the theatre space on the bottom. The floor plates are also slightly landscaped to allow for visual access across the floors.

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South-facing Skylights Skylights are installed within the tunnel to allow light to penetrate into the underground, but also acts as mini showrooms for small displays and way-finding devices for the 300m long tunnel.

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Garment-to-Garment Recycling Centre The G2G recycling system is a scalable recycling system, which is configured to operation compatibility to community space. Hence, I imagine to space to act more as a market for recycled Garment than conventional recycling facilities around the UK.

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Elevation The strong difference in terms of structure helps to signify the type of programs from the exterior.

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Tensile String Facade The facade of vertical villages represent the process of knitting. The density of strings correlates to the gradual shift from artist studio like office spaces in the bottom to more conventional office spaces on the top

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Elevation - Day Vertical Louvre panels act as solar shading during day for museums and event spaces.

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Elevation - Night Vertical Louvre panels act as advertising boards during nighttime. Each window targets at specific landmarks across the city.

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Businessing Net Jihyun Choi The convention center is no longer a crowded space with many people. Various events are increasingly being replaced by virtual events, especially when it comes to the covid-19. I would like to redefine the role of the convention center and reconsider the spatial character of the each program of the convention centre for the future society. In the process, the convention center is combined with the skyscraper and has special relationships with the government and multinational corporations. This project re-examined the economic, political and cultural values of the convention center from a more forward-looking perspective. Convention Centre where can bring the needs from SME(Small and medium-sized enterprises). Provide a flatform which can formulate the ideas of Venture Businesses to expand there boundary. Digital based convention centre which is including the infrastructures of digital promotion Small-scale sample exhibition hall, and venue for the local business conference is included. Digital based exhibition studio is the main program of the convention centre. Collaborate with the multinational cooperation like the Google, Youtube, Universal Music and Facebook.

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23rd Floor

Total Floor Area: 398,490 m2 Usable Sqare Meter: 127,489 m² Shared Area: 71,489m² Load Factor: RSM/USM = 0.43 = 43% Price(£)/day/m²: 7.09

9th Floor

The Shard

The Shard is perfectly avoiding the viewing corridor which means it is not distracting any perspective toward the key buildings and views in London. If you see the blue dots which is indicating about tall towers, they are also avoiding the viewing corridor. It is one of the key aspects that we have to consider with the conservation area when we build a tall building in London.

Public Realm

Retails and Side Entrance

Train Shed

There are 3 main public area which is also part of the building component. There are one on the Top which is the viewing gallery, in the middle floor there are high-end restaurants and the connection with the transportation on the ground level. Considering the connectivity toward the public realms is also quite important, as the tall tower normally bring disconnection to them due to the height.

Mixed-use Skyscraper The Shard, also referred to as the Shard of Glass, Shard London Bridge and formerly London Bridge Tower, is a 95-storey supertall skyscraper, designed by the Italian architect Renzo Piano, in Southwark, London, that forms part of the Shard Quarter development.

Connec�on to the Shard

Lower Concourse

Midium Size Convention Centre Queen Elizabeth II Centre

Emmanuel Centre

N - Matching Design with the neighboring buildings - Cross Programming(Flexible Hall)

DE MORGAN HOUSE

- Private Garden - Grade II listed building

Cavendish Conference Centre

- Host more than 7,000 events - The 2018 winners for the Conference Awards - On-site catering

- Convention Centre in the listed building - Chapel converted to the Main Auditorium

Congress Centre

- Large-scale London venue - 16 ﬂexible meeting and events spaces - 1950s modernist building

Southwark Cathedral

- 6 meeting rooms - two beautiful outsides spaces - the historic Cathedral interior - onsite catering partner(Leaﬁ) - Cathedral looking Convention Centre

The Shard Movement of different Users

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Entrance

Oﬃce

Hall and Ballroom Recep�on

Catering Adjustable Stages for Hall and Ballroom and Football ﬁeld

Shawer Area

Atrium

Mon

Thue

Wed

Thur

Fri

Sat

Sun

Require High Ceiling

Underground Parking Lot

Auditorium

Movable Aucous�c Wall

Ballroom A Loading Area

Delivery Centre

Hall A

Hall B

Catering

Ballroom B

Auditorium

Entrance for Cars

Ver�cal Circula�on

Opened Ground Level Square

Canon Street Sta�on

Movement of People Movement of Services Primary connec�on Secondary connec�on

Retail Shops Ver�cal Circula�on Toilet Mee�ng Area

2D Convention Centre Program Analysis Relationship in between different programmes according to the age

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Projec�on

1. Cross Programming through: - Flexibility of reconﬁgurate halls, event spaces. - Adaptability of quality of space * Daylight, black box * Acous�cs * Projec�ons * Sea�ng arrangements + Catering 2. How to create inhavitable space with the connec�on of Conven�on Centre

Jihyun Choi

No.

Office

Residential Area

Convention Hall

Ballroom

Auditorium

Meeting Area

Catering

Concourse

Shed

Circulation

Entrance

Retails

Lobby

Residential Area

Convention Hall

Ballroom

Meeting Area

Auditorium

Concourse

Catering

Shed

Circulation

Entrance

Retails

Lobby

Public

Very closed

Not closed

Core

Exhibition Hall

Private

Meeting Area

Plaza

Lobby

Residential Area

Program

Control Tower/ Ticket Hall

Retails

Sports Centre Skyport Platform

Hall

Ballroom

Case Study of Vertical Relationship Platform

Retails Service

Ground Lv Projection Direction Hall Air circulation

Controlled perspective

Sky Hall

Residential VS Office

Ballroom

Catering

Movement of Services

St. Paul

Movement of People

Public Realm

Basement Arrangement

Bloomberg HQ Cloak Ln Cannon Street Station

Auditorium River Thames Services

Office

Residential

Site Example: Bank Area

Sports Centre N

Underground

Retail Shops Atrium/Public Area

Circulation

Skin

250m

Ground Floor 200m

Hall B

Hall A

150m

Void

The middle Core only goes up to this Level

Hall 50m 78m2 Programmes Communal Garden

Volumn = 57:73

Exoskeleton

Negative/Positive Volume

178m2 50m2

Residential VS Office

3D Stacked Diagram Composed according to the adjacency

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Collage of Site Anal The Drawing shows the history of the Kingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Cross area and the main function of the tower as a convention centre

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Regions linked with the King’s Cross

5.8 million small businesses at the start of 2019 800

King’s Cross is the Business Hub for SME and Startup

700

600

£677-814bn Market

500

400

Collaborating with Multination Cooperations

300

200

100

London

East of England

Yorkshire And The Humber

East Midlands

North East

West Midland

Scotland

North West

182,408

Domestic Arrival to King’s Cross Station 150,000

150,000 Travellers in a day

Amsterdam

Underground Station Users

Brussels

London

Paris

149,000 people in a weekday 28,611

215,816 people during the weekend

International Arrival to St Pancras Station Marseille

28,611 Travellers in a day

https://www.statista.com/statistics/412756/london-underground-kings-cross-st-pancras-passengers/

King’s Cross Opportunity Area Domestic and International Demands

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Direction to Platform

Shed

Circulation

Ticket Oﬃce Underground

Concourse

Retail Shop

Hotel

Oﬃce/ VIP Lounge

Source: Islington Borough

Viewing Corridor Buildable Area

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International Demand

Domestic Demand from the North

Central Saint Mar�ns

Universal Studio Google HQ Camden Council hub by Premier Inn

Youtube Studio Trinity Group Ltd.,

Domestic Demand from the North West

Premier Inn Francis Crick Ins�tute

Great Northern Hotel St. Pancras Renaissance Hotel

The Bri�sh Library

Neighboring Programmes

The Standard Hotel Camden Centre

Multinational Corporation Public Sector Accomodation Convention Venue Train Station Buildable Site Demand Supply

Mary Ward House Conference Centre

City Scale Site Drawing Analysis of local programmes

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Usable Area Above Ground: 49,010 sqm

People from Coal Drop Yard Summer People from St Pancras SQ

Winter

People from St Pancras

Listed Buildings(Grade 1, 2*, 2) Viewing Corridor Entrance

People from Central London People Vehicle Underground Station Sun Path

Turnstiles

Context Height Above X5 CH: Metropolitan Landmark

250m

Proposed Height as a District Landmark

Above X3 CH up to X5 CH: District Landmark

150m

“Context Height is important aspect, as it will decide what is the tall building in that area. In my case, the tallest building amongst the King’s Cross opportunity Area is maxium 61m, and the most of building height are around 37-46m. So If I build a tower up to 150 m, it will be counted as a ‘District Landmark’. If any building above the height should be perceived as a ‘Metropolitan Landmark’.”

Neighborhood Scale Site Analysis Relationship with Existing Contexts

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Solar Radiation and Wind Flow

Sunpath and Overshadow

01/07/2020 - 6am

01/07/2020 - 12pm

01/07/2020 - 7pm

St Pancras Councourse

Podium Kingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Cross Train Shed

Environment Analysis Solar Radiation and Wind Flow

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Basic Geometry

Site & Program Analysis Viewing Restrictions (10.15º) From 12.41m

King’s Cross Arrival from the Northern UK: 150,000/day St. Pancras International Arrival from Europe: 28,611/day Underground Users: 149,000/day

Iteration & Program Distribution

Flexible Flooring Zone

Observa�on Deck Bar

Oﬃces

240 m

View toward the river thames 6m

Lobby/ VT for Oﬃces Studio/ Business Hub Area Restaurants Catering/ Food Court Ball Room/ Auditorium

12 m

Exhibi�on Area Transfer Truss Opened MT Area/ Crea�ve Zone Train Concourse Underground Connec�on

Section (1:2000)

Massing Design Existing Axis and Program Distribution

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Collective Investment Scheme

Government

Facebook

Oculus

SME

Camden Council

Cut the Local Public Services by 63%

Camden Council

Government Body Connection

Construc�on Cost

Average Oﬃce Rent Cost

21.6 £/table/day

Usable Area Above Ground: 49,010 sqm

Expacted Employees: 5000

Programme and Site base Massing Design

Physical Space Orientation

Government Funding Reduced

Role of the Camden Council

Tax Managing the facility on behalf of the government Annual Budget Reduced by 23%

Camden Council £169 million -> £35-40 million

Organize the Business Conference which the SME can get the direct support

Travel Daily Cost

£117/Person

Private

Provide physical and technical ﬂa�orms which the SMEs can get the direct support to launch there business.

Rent out a room or a facility of the conven�on centre to the SME according to their needs Organize a tes�ng lab to research of a new typology of business

Finencial Movement Technical Movement

Rent

Stakeholder

Camden Council Income Public

50%

Facebook($133.376 billion budget) £35-40 m Camden Council (£35-40 million budget)

50%

Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy (£13.8 billion budget) (Network Rail) HM Government

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Financial Hierarchy Justification of the tower with the Government Body

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Pancras Sq

Granary Sq

Entrance

Typical Floor Plan

Viewing Condition

Retails

Convention Centre Lifts Restaurant lifts

Train Shed

Underground

VIP Lift Office Lifts

Western Concourse

St. Pancras Internaï¿½onal

Structure and Enclosure

Underground

1st Floor Plan 1:1200

Physical Connection Visual Connection

Negetive Volumn Positive Volumn

Transfer Truss

Ground Floor Movement and Structure of the Tower Floor plans of the key floors, Exploded Isometric Drawing

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Physical Movement Visual Connection

Section and Axonometric Drawing Relationship in between different floors

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Rendering of Auditorium(Convention Centre)

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Government Body and Auditorium Physical Connection through Skip Flooring System

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Day and Night One of the key features of the tower is twisting geometry. The twisted area is the surface where the tower receive sun light the most during the day time. The positive volumn extruded out toward southern facade is the part where the internal program started to combined. And along with the program mixing the external exoskeleton is also redistributed toward ground floor. As it is shown on the rendering images, the internal structure is more clearly visulaised during the night time while the external facade is covering overall structure during the day time. By changing the skyline of the Kingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Cross area, the tower will be a guidance and the symbol of the rapidly changing world. And more importantly, the â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Businessing Netâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;, as a tower consist of convention centre and different multi programmes, will be recognised as a representation of the future.

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A-HUB Diana Dulina a-hub is a hotel and residential integrated with an art museum, art school, studio space, art fair and art therapy. The tower brings people together though the binding subject of art. On a more subconscious level, art impacts our lives and serves as a great social catalyst. Whether it is creating or experiencing art, it connects individuals, communities, cities and even countries. a-hub makes art available for everyone exposing the visitors and the inhabitants to a variety of activities associated with art. Art School offers courses suitable for anyone with desire to learn and to practice art regardless of the age and skill. Experimental Museum embraces the contemporary with installations focused on the visitor experience. Artists can rent a-hub studios with their preferred size, which will turn into an Art Fair for a month every year. a-hub is fully sustainable environment with all users interacting and learning with each other: students learning from professional artists and curating small exhibitions, public getting to know the artists and acquiring exceptional artworks. The tower is located in Southbank, close to popular tourist locations yet quiet with multiple residential neighbourhoods. A-hub is surrounded by existing artistic institutions such as National Callery, Somerset House and the Culture Mile of London: Barbican, Museum of London, St. Paulâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, and Tate Modern. a-hub elevates the cultural capital of London by promoting art education and exhibiting revolutionary installations. London community is exposed to artistic activities available to everyone.

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Close-up View Twin towers get â&#x20AC;&#x153;wrappedâ&#x20AC;? around by the alternative programs emphasizing the continuous loop journey.

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The site model shows key features essential to the project. Blue - central tourist area; pink - quiet residential; purple - well known artistic institutions of London and the Culture Mile.

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Diana Dulina

Museum & Studio 12pm- 6pm Art School 7am- 8pm

Environmental Analysis Tower design is informed by the wind and sunlight analysis. Special programs are facing toward the sunlight at targeted hours.

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Colomns

Residential Elevators

Stairwell

Studio, Museum, Art School, Art Therapy Elevators

MEP

BOH Elevators

Storage

MEP

Residential Elevators Studio, Museum, Art School Elevators BOH Elevators

Stairwell MEP Storage

Structure Twin towersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; structure is composed of perimeter columns and central cores. Identical cores will provide vertical circulation for all programs.

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Perforated Ceiling Continuation of Panels Vertical Panels merge together on the ceiling of Art School as they form openings for sunlight.

Extended Floor Slab

Glazing

Vertical Panels

Hierarchy of Facade Horizontals on the Alternative Programs Verticals on the Hotel and Residential

Adjustable Louvres By rotating and sliding the panels, amount of sunlight in the Museum can be tailored.

Enclosure Vertical panels in Residential and Hotel will direct the habitants away from each other. They will be used as movable louvers on the artistic spaces.

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Ground Floor Circulation Podium design is driven by public circulation. People at Southbank embankment are taken across the podium through retail spaces and museum installations.

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Podium Lobby Mezzanines in the podium reinforce the horizontal movement as well as form atrium to draw peopleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s attention up into the tower.

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Plaza Green plaza leads to the podium entrance providing the public with sitting areas and museum installations.

Diana Dulina

Art Therapy Art School

Museum

Art Fair Studios

Program Section Residential (on the left) and Hotel (on the right) are surrounded by the loop of alternative programs.

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Residential Floor Plan Apartment size: 225 m2

Hotel Floor Plan Room size: 50-75 m2

Hotel Floor Plan Room size: 75-100 m2

Art School Bridge Floor Plan Public Corridor open for 2 hours a day

Residential Floor Plan Apartment size: 95-120 m2

Art Museum Bridge Floor Plan Mezzanines in all Museum levels

Residential Floor Plan Apartment size: 60-85 m2

Art Studio Bridge Floor Plan Movable Partitions

Possible Combination of Studio space

Tower Floor Plans The diagram shows the way the floor slab is split into apartment blocks and hotel rooms. Floor plans of the bridges depict unique features of each space.

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Interior Views Courses offered at the Art School vary from basic drawing skills to improving professional digital skills. Mezzanines on the Museum floors provide alternative perspective to exhibiting artwork. Studios for artists can easily be tailored to oneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s preference and then transform into an Art Fair.

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CoWork, CoLearn, CoCreate Sofya Zhuravleva

Socialisation is an extremely important part of our life. Now that we’ve been deprived of social contact and nobody knows when it might be safe enough to get to the life we had prior to the Pandemic. Creating a space where people can share thoughts and ideas. Collaborate and develop new skills. Considering that co-working is very popular in London also not setting aside the changes the world is going through at the moment it would be a good solution. The building would not only have co working facilities but also educational facilities and entertainment facilities. This would add to a small number of entertaining facilities in the neighbourhood and bring more life into it during non working hours. The tower consists out of 3 types of spaces that consider the needs of the inhibitors and their safety. There are spaces to CoWork, which are smaller and more private. The spaces to CoLearn are a modent substitution to a library where people have all the access to the resourses while having a “hands-on” learning approach. The space for CoCreation is a space for collaboration .

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market

office

library 1

1. Film Archive 2. Photo Archive 3. History Department 4. Science Department 5. Humanities Department 6. Children Books 7. Schience-Fiction Books 8. Special Collections 9. Music Collections

11 1. Study Rooms 2. Meeting Rooms 3. Studios 4. Making Space 5. Science Lab 6. Gardening Spot 7. Kids Area 8. Goup Work Space 9. Cinema 10. VR Room 11. Computer Room 12. Music Studio 13. Sound Reconding Room

Individual offices

Open plan office

Meeting rooms

Kitchen

13 9

Workshop Space Lecture Space Entrance

collaboration

coworking

Kitchen/ Storage/ Preparation of food

Long term rent co-working office

Cafe/Bar/Kitchen

Meeting rooms

Interaction area

Short term rent co-working office

Registration Desk Meeting Spots (cafe/ lounge)

co-learning

Each of the four devisions of short term rent co working offices is a different shade to represent the different types of environment they would be.

Photo studios

Art studios

Music rooms

Lecture Hall/Conference room

VR/computer rooms

Program Diagram Market transforms into Collaboration. Office transforms into Coworking. Library transforms into Co-Learning.

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COLLABORATION

Cafe/Bar/Kitchen Collaboration area Cafe/Bar/Kitchen

Individual offices

Collaboration area Individual offices Meeting rooms Open plan office

COWO

Meeting rooms

COWORKING

CO-LEARNING

Open plan office

Photo studios

Music rooms

VR/computer rooms

Art studios

Lecture Hall/Conference room

Combined Program Diagram

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Visual Physical Social

Stacking Concept

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Loud and quiet program disstribution

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CE NT ER AR BI CA N

MOORGATE

LIVERPOOL STREET STATION

LIVERPOOL STREET

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EAS TER N

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CLU

Lâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; PAU

STE R

INT

SA THE

AL BANK

COWORKING OFFICE

CAFE / RESTAURANT

OFFICE BUILDING

Site Analysis 60 London Wall

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MOORGATE

LIVERPOOL STREET STATION

LIVERPOOL STREET

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BANK

Vehicles

PEOPLE

People

VEHICLES

Site Analysis Movement Analysis

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1st Massing Iteration

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2st Massing Iteration

3st Massing Iteration

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COWORK

COLLABORATE

COLEARN

Mudular System of Program Division

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FOH Entrance

BOH Entrance

BOH circulation

FOH circulation

Ground floor plan

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LEARNING

COLLABORATION

CONCENTRATION 225 m

7.5 m

Isonomentric Section

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Typical floor plan

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Visulisation of the tower

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Visulisation of the atrium in the tower

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The Digital Zoo Brian Chung The main idea of the tower is to mix tech museum with office program. The tower design was born out of the idea of showcasing current technology as well as historical artifacts. In the traditional museum, visitors look at artifacts and museum curators, hidden from view, work to put forth the artifacts. The design of the Digital Zoo challenges this very idea, by having workers working on their crafts and artifacts, while the public observe, engage and even experience the artifacts. The museum experience becomes a process, looking at an artifact that evolves, and the learning experience will educate the public using many different methods. In other words, the office, back of house and museum are all intertwined. In todayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s world, tech offices are constantly changing, how people interact, the type of tech and objects being crafted and researched are also changing rapidly. From personal items, to large objects such as drones, flying cars, and space age technology, the spatial experience should reflect this. In this tower, atriums ranging from small or large carve out the interior space that can accommodate various sizes of artifacts. The atriums and layout of the tower will directly inform how the public engages the office workers. Some atrium spaces will only allow the public to see the exhibition form a distance, giving the office some privacy. While other atrium spaces, will allow large multi-level objects to be displayed, as visitors move up and down, different parts of the objects can be seen, sometimes from a far, sometimes close up, and sometimes even interact with the object. Structurally, the tower is support by an external exoskeleton, that the shape is informed by the programs inside the building. There is also a smaller, internal exoskeleton, that allows these big atrium spaces and cantilevers elements to be possible. The exoskeleton system ultimately allows maximum amount of open floor space to be used, while resisting tectonic forces.

We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology. - Carl Sagan

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Environmental Analysis The shape of the tower is informed by the environment. Elongated shape mitigate wind load, while the flatter areas try to capture as much sunlight as possible, and also allowing occupants and city goers to have the best view possible.

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Site Plan The podium and ground level is very much informed by the local circulation and context

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Site Model The site model shows the initial attempt at the building atriums. The strings also represent circulation of the area and into the building

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Building Atrium and Programs Layout Spatial experience and public interaction with the office works are dependent on the building layout but could be changed depending on needs

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Interior Render Spatial experience and public interaction inside the tower

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Early Exoskeleton Concept Exoskeleton inspired by bird bone structure

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Exoskeleton Iteration 01 Exoskeleton with more vertical and fluid shape that is informed by the interior layout of the program

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Exoskeleton Iteration 02 Rear side of the tower

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Exoskeleton Form Finding and Testing Some early attempts at form finding and structural testing of exoskeleton

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Startup Accelerator Elliot Watt This tower is home to a full-service startup accelerator. It provides ambitious technology entrepreneurs with the mentorship, funding and office space necessary to develop ideas into profitable companies. These three pillars of support are consolidated into one urban hub with the goal of lowering the barrier to entry for entrepreneurship in London and creating a competitive environment that increases the success rate of new companies. Mentorship will be provided by partner corporations and entrepreneurs, and capital will come from seed and venture capital firms. Entrepreneurs will be accepted in cohorts that stay for a 6-month duration, after which they will either move their new companies into the city and continue to develop on their own, or they will be offered office space in the tower at a discounted rate in return for their peer mentoring of future cohorts. The tower sits directly at the heart of Londonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s tech city, the startup epicentre of the UK and an important hub for tech entrepreneurship in Europe. The site is situated at the intersection of Old St and City Rd. Dubbed Silicon Roundabout, the site was home to the first tech startups in the area over a decade ago and continues to thrive as the epicentre for startup incubation and entrepreneurship in the UK. Like a small community in the sky, this accelerator should provide an environment that enriches Londonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s startup scene and increases the percentage of successfully founded companies entering the marketplace. Ideally an engine for economic growth.

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24-hour Start-up Accelerator: Day & Night Render Like a small community in the sky, this accelerator provides an environment that enriches Londonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s startup scene and increases the percentage of successfully founded companies entering the marketplace. Ideally an engine for economic growth.

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Formal Massing Study: Drawing Two twisting towers draw near at the top to create a communal atrium in the sky, while the feet of the tower are spread apart to allow cyclists and pedestrians to pass through the site.

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Massing Environmental Analysis: Render The initial massing was adapted to better suit the environmental conditions of the site based on solar and wind analysis. The internal atrium was oriented toward the sun, while the broad side of the tower faced the prevailing wind to block it.

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24-hour Start-up Accelerator: Night Section This project challenges the notion that work must take place from 9-5, or even during the day at all. The building will be open 24/7, much like a university student center, to allow participants to work whenever inspiration strikes.

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Start-up Funding & Support: Diagram There are 5 main types of startup program, each providing a different combination of resources. This tower is an accelerator, highlighted in white, that provides investment capital, office space and mentorship.

Elliot Watt

Vertical Connection: Section To create an environment of connected entrepreneurs sharing their diverse ideas with one another, each floorplate has a cut out which connects it with the one below, encouraging spontaneous wandering up or down.

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Programatic Division: Section The building program is divided into two sections. The top is where the cohorts of accelerator participants work for 6 months, and the bottom is a convention centre, shared equally between the accelerator and tech companies.

Elliot Watt

Ground Floor Podium: Floor Plan The tower base is split into two separate volumes. The left primarily serves the towerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s human population as it occupies the front of the site and the right is primarily reserved for services and goods delivery, as it has open access to the back lane.

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Accelerator Lobby: Floor Plan The accelerator lobby sits midway up the tower, above the convention centre. Accelerator participants take an express lift to this floor where they can sign in and choose to continue their journey upwards via lift or on foot.

Accelerator Floorplate: Floor Plan The accelerator floorplates are once again split, this time connected at every second level by an enclosed bridge. Central to each floor plate is a cut out, staggered from the one above and below it, acting as a social gathering space.

Elliot Watt

Structural Systems: Axonometric The dual-tower form is realized through the use of columns and a transfer truss. Where the two towers interlock in the mid section, they are connected by a truss that carries the load from the columns above to the cores.

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Structural Transfer Truss: Render Below the truss, the floors are supported on one side by columns and cantilever from the core on the other.

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Accelerator Interior Design: Render The accelerator design provides a variety of spaces, each tailored to a different activity. On one floor you can find spaces dedicated to work and socialization, each expressing its intention through form.

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Social Space: Render At the interior scale, the tower geometry creates a small haven in the sky. Inter-floor gathering spaces provide space to hangout and facilitate vertical movement. A small community in the sky.

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Urban Integration: Render At the urban scale, the tower geometry allows a more free ground condition, friendly for cyclists and pedestrians. The great twist of the towers as they touch the ground allows for the life of the city to continue uninterrupted.

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Elevated Sanctuary Pierre Zebouni The vertical sanctuary is a space that conceive a community of people sheltered from the chaos of the outer world. It is a space for thought, a space for fun, a space for calm, a space for entertainment, a space for activities, a space for conversations, a space for growth. Southwark has a growing population that is going to reach 50 000 by 2030. Unfortunately office spaces take up to 60% of the area. Proposing 135 000 m2 of office accommodation will evacuate the area from offices recalibrate the borough financially as well as touristically, a museum and library will welcome a youthful and more diverse community. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a vision of a cultural, historical and artistically overgrowing community accessible by everyone in the city. The sanctuary consists of a series of spaces that varies in dimension, texture, orientation and geometry in accordance with their individual purpose. A major space that reaches the top of the tower serves the community as an elevated park. The museum and library revolve all around it creating an inward experience to the user while still promoting breathtaking landscapes of the city of London. At some point during the vertical journey, the sanctuary bifurcates inside the tower to the edge of its facade to create more intimate and spiritual experiences.

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Personâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s point of view area of interaction in the Tate modern, Natural History museum and the British museum.

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Personâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s point of view area of interaction in the Westminister reference Library and the British Library

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Visual, physical and proportional relationships between programs of an excelling...

Museum

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Public study room Private study room Amphitheatre Restaurant Library Neuroscience offices Neuroscience offices Members room Exhibition space 1-3 Neolithic 6000BC-2750BC 4-6 Summerian 4500BC-2000BC 7-9 Ancient egypt 3250BC-750BC 10-12 Mesoamerican 2000BC-1500AC 13-15 Assyrian 2000BC-1500AC 16-18 Ancient greek 2000BC-1500AC 19-21 Roman 2000BC-1500AC 22-24 Byzantine 2000BC-1500AC 25-27 Romanesque 2000BC-1500AC 28-30 Gothic 2000BC-1500AC 31-33 Renaissance 2000BC-1500AC 34-36 Baroque 2000BC-1500AC 37-39 Georgian 2000BC-1500AC 40-42 Neoclassical 2000BC-1500AC 43-45 Victorian 2000BC-1500AC 46-48 Modernism 2000BC-1500AC 49-52 Post-modernism 2000BC-1500AC 53-56 Contemporan 2000BC-1500AC 57-63 Future of architecture 2000BC-1500AC

The visusal, physical and proportional relationships between programs.

Toilets Water piping Electrical generator Shops Seating space Transportation platform Storage area Loading area Workshops Public atriums Park Permit direct sunlight Prevent direct sunlight Visual connection with the park L ake Physical connection Circulation of

The visual, physical and proportional relationships between programs.

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SANCTUARY CHARACTERISTICS

I. Blending interiors with exteriors. II. Optical illusions that magnify the size of the space.

The intertwining experience routine of people inside the vertical catalyst.

III. Sanctuary opens to the exterior to invite the city of London inside. IV. A place that offers spaces to cultivate and fortify the sense of community by establishing hathering scenes of different scales.

EMPLOYEES CIRCUIT

OFFICE

CHARACTERISTICS

I. Promotes collaboration, productivity, creativiy. II. Open space and common areas to improve company culture. III. A place that encourages asking questions to team members.

V. Encourage physical movement and discovery by using a complex network of ramps and stairs.

SANCTUARY MUSEUM / LIBRARY CHARACTERISTICS

VI. Contrast between private and public sanctuaries: 1- Big number of trees which enhances a feeling of privacy. 2- Small number of trees with increased breadth of field which enhance a feeling of publicity and socializing behavior. VII. Ability to ease people by triggering peace, wholeness and joy.

I. Create spaces that provoke an emotional response

VISITORS CIRCUIT

II. Detach people from the city and reconnect them to one another, to nature and to art through their form scale and details III. Keep choices simple when it comes to movement IV. Maximize the use of natural light and natural ventilation V. Offer spaces where people can socialize and other spaces that encourage silence VI. Keep big spaces (terrace + atrioms) busy by manipulating spaces to enhance the intensity of movement

Mix up of spaces in the tower and their organization to create an intertwining experience for users.

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Interaction of neighborhood with tower

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Interaction of environmental factors with tower

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Southwark

Museum of Architecture with its own library. Which will not only solidify the culture and history of the city but offer the people an essential landmark to relate to.

Public spaces (confined parks, Japanese gardens, meditation spaces, study areas) to improve the wellfare of a community.

Ring related to the museum of Architecture (public space that houses visionary talks, shows and social events that encourage people to meditate on the profession of architecture and think of its future possibilities). 135 000 m2 of oďŹ&#x192;ce accomodations that will house 50% of Southwark offices.

TATE

Today By 2030

Total of new households in Shouthwark (1unit = 1 000 occupants)

Total of public spaces in Southwark.

% of people living below 60% of the national median (poverty).

% of people aged above 45 years.

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SECTION LINE

Unit 3, Library x Museum SECTION LINE

Unit 2, Library x Office space SECTION LINE

Unit 1, Office space

First design iteration of stacking unit

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Diagramatic model highlighting negative space of sanctuary in relation to massing neighborhood and showing the transition between horizontal movement of visitors, employees and goods to vertical circulation.

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Second design iteration, developed stacking experience.

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Exploded axonometric drawing showing the enclosure, circulation and relationship between spaces

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BLACKFRIARS BRIDGE

MILLENIUM BRIDGE

SOUTHWARK BRIDGE

THAMES RIVER

TATE GALLERY OF MODERN ART

BLOCK A +3.5

ONE BLACKFRIARS

BLOCK B +4

BLOCK C

+3.5

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SITE PLAN 3

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130

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TATE GALLERY OF MODERN ART

BLOCK A +3.5

Focus space

BLOCK B

BLOCK C

+12

+24

Confined parfk

+3.5

SOUTHWARK STR EET

FLEXIBLE OFFICE PLAN 3

115

130

METERS

Focus space

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TATE GALLERY OF MODERN ART

Japanese garden

BLOCK A +3.5

BLOCK B

BLOCK C

+275

+12 +236

+229 +222 +273

Meditation area

+277

+215

+195

+202

+159

+244

+279

+3.5

SOUTHWARK STR EET

SANCTUARY PLAN 3

115

130

METERS

Museum

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EAST SECTION

THE SHARD

298

280 M

241

181

130

45 TATE GALLERY OF MODERN ART

RIVER THAMES

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SOUTH elevation of Londonʼs skyline including the sanctuary

WEST elevation of Londonʼs skyline including the sanctuary

Interaction of tower with skyline

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Vision of the elevated sanctuary

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THE GARDEN CITY Horizontal & Vertical Allotment Gardens & Parks + Office + Housing

Sungho Choi The artificial landscape is the design of the environment constructed artificially, resulting in the manipulation in the shape of the natural layout, contrasting to the landscape which arose naturally. English landscape gardens ( Picturesque gardens ) in an urban context are constructed as landscape parks to suit the demand for acquiring recreational spaces for the working class of urban cities to suggest alternative leisure from the desire to escape to ruralized suburbs and commuter towns. As the lack of a natural environment and social interaction within the highly populated yet isolated condition of metropolitan cities is an arising problem, the collective landscape has emerged as a social necessity in todayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s society. To suit the universal demand of landscape, tower as the production of horizontal surfaces in vertical form is a proposition to acquire spaces for the recreational landscape parks. The landscape will begin from horizontal parks and transition to vertical allotment gardens. The horizontal landscape park will embody the intricates of nature, emphasizing the unimpeded view of the surrounding urban environment, referring to the picturesque landscape parks. Extending from the horizontal landscape park, the vertical form of stacked artificial surfaces dedicated to allotment gardening would be an expression to show the artificial fabrication of the landscape. The broadened definition of the allotment garden allowed different types of recreational spaces other than traditional means of recreation coming from sharing knowledge and harvesting food from common space within the community. Two different types of allotment gardens are introduced in the tower for different program users. Residential allotment gardens are focused on traditional allotment values and designed to foster a sense of community among residents which is to improve isolation and detachment happening in the metropolitan area. Allotment gardens for the office provide spaces for recreation and refreshment, reducing the intensity of daily routine to the office workers. The approach to understand and accomplish the landscape parks and allotment gardens which only existed in horizontal typology into a form of vertical transition and how would this experimentation of new typology for parks and gardens be designed to foster a sense of recreation and interaction among diverse social groups has been the key investigation throughout the project

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SITE ANALYSIS

MONUMENT’S VIEWING CORRIDOR

0800 - 100 - 900 700 - 600 4000 - 5000 3000 -- 4000 4000 3000

SI TE

SAINT PAUL’S VIEWING CORRIDOR

B O H M O V E M E N T 24 HR

2000 -- 3000 3000 2000

BL AC KF

3000 -2000

C A R & T A X I M O V E M E N T 24 HR C Y C L I N G M O V E M E N T 24 HR

RI AR S

WIDER CONSULATION AREA

900 - 1000 800 - 900

700 - 600

AREA INAPPROPRIATE FOR TALL BUILDINGS

B O H M O V E M E N T 24 HR

H W AR

SI TE

3000 - 4000

2000 - 3000

BL AC KF

3000 -2000

C Y C L I N G M O V E M E N T 24 HR

MAS

RI AR S

SI TE : BL AC KF RI S

E F

N D O N

MAJOR BUS ROUTE

N SITE LOCATION OF THE TOWER

CITY‘S SAFE STREET

E CI TY

MONUMENT’S VIEWING CORRIDOR

1000 - 2000

F LO N

500 - 1000

O N

100 -250

P E D E S TR I A N M O V E M E N T PEAK HR

250 - 500

SS AI TI EN TL OPCAAUTLI ’OSN V OI EFWTI HN EG TCOOWR ER RI D O R

0 - 100

4000 - 5000

WIDER CONSULATION AREA MONUMENT’S VIEWING CORRIDOR

CCOANRS E& R TVAAXT II OMNO VA ER ME AE N T 24 HR

3000 - 4000 2000 - 3000

GRADE A LISTED BUILDINGS B O H M O V E M E N T 24 HR

900 - 1000 800 - 900 700 - 600

KF AR S

POSSIBLE PEDESTRIAN MOVEMENT

3000 -2000

C Y C L I N G M O V E M E N T 24 HR HERITAGE VALUE

2000 - 3000

WIDER CONSULATION AREA

EXISTING PEDESTRIAN MOVEMENT

ARCHEOLOGICAL PRIORITY ZONE ( APZ)

3000 - 4000

AREA INAPPROPRIATE FOR TALL BUILDINGS SAINT PAUL’S VIEWING CORRIDOR

LOCATION OF THE TOWER

AREA INAPPROPRIATE FOR TALL BUILDINGS

POSSIBLE VISUAL CONNECTION TO ADJEACENT GREEN SPACES

FOREST CONNECTION HEIGHT RANGE (HIGH METER IN AOD )

BL AC KF RI AR S

100 +

51 - 100

LOW 31 - 40

41 - 50

FOREST CONNECTION 21 - 30 11 - 20 10 +

SO UT

SITES WITH PLANNING CONSENT FOR TALL BUILDINGS

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ONE WAY ROAD

O N SITE LOCATION OF THE TOWER

LOCATION OF THE TOWER

CONSERVATION AREA LONDON LOW LINE PROPOSAL FOR BLACKFRIARS RAILWAY

MONUMENT’S VIEWING CORRIDOR

GRADE A LISTED BUILDINGS

SAINT PAUL’S VIEWING CORRIDOR OFFICE

ARCHEOLOGICAL PRIORITY ZONE ( APZ) CONSERVATION AREA

WIDER CONSULATION AREA RESIDENTIAL HOUSING

HERITAGE VALUE GRADE A LISTED BUILDINGS

A R E CA UI LNTAUPRPARLO IPNRSI TA ITTEU FT O I ORN T A L L B U I L D I N G S

ARCHEOLOGICAL PRIORITY ZONE ( APZ) HERITAGE VALUE

RELIGIOUS INSTITUTION

TE : BL AC KF RI AR S

SO UT H W AR K OFFICE CONSERVATION AREA

RESIDENTIAL HOUSING

Site Analysis GRADE A LISTED BUILDINGS Understanding the site through investigating different types of movement and distribution of programs

ARCHEOLOGICAL PRIORITY ZONE ( APZ)

Site Analysis LOCATION OF THE TOWER

Understanding the site through investigating respected heritagesR Eand restrictions on views. LIGIOUS INSTITUTION

EXISTING PEDESTRIAN MOVEMENT POSSIBLE PEDESTRIAN MOVEMENT

HERITAGE VALUE

POSSIBLE VISUAL CONNECTION TO ADJEACENT GREEN SPACES HIGH FOREST CONNECTION

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S O U R C E:

TALL BUILDINGS IN THE CITY 2018 BY THE CITY OF LONDON TRAFFIC IN THE CITY 2018 BY THE CITY OF LONDON

CULTURAL INSTITUTION OFFICE RESIDENTIAL HOUSING

CULTURAL INSTITUTION RELIGIOUS INSTITUTION

LOW FOREST CONNECTION BANK SIDE URBAN STUDY

CITY PLAN 2036

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OPMENT

ITERATION 1

ITERATION 2

ITERATION 3

RATION 2

ITERATION 3

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Massing Development Diagram Emergent of vertical landscape in space for allotment: Functioning as a garden for occupiers and visual park for the wider public

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ATRIUM DEVELOPMENT Development of the Atrium through Program Distribution

Distribution of Programs throughout the tower

Visual Connectivity among Programs through the Atrium

Distribution of Programs throughout the tower among Programs through the Atrium Development of the Atrium through Program Distribution Distribution of Programs throughout the Visual tower Connectivity Visual Connectivity among Programs through the Development of the Atrium through Program Distribution Distribution of Programs throughout the tower

Development of the Atrium through Program Distribution

Allotment Garden

Residential Vertical Park

Allotment Garden Allotment Garden Allotment Garden

Allotment Garden

Residential Allotment Garden

Residential

Allotment Garden

Residential

Vertical Park

Lifts in Greenary

Visual Connectivity among Programs through the Atrium

Vertical Park

Office Office Garden

Lifts inLifts Greenary in Greenary

Atrium Park Green Ramp Horizontal Park

Green Arch

Lifts in Greenary

Office Office

Podium

Office Garden Office Garden Office Atrium Park

Office Garden

Atrium Park

Green Ramp

Horizontal Park Podium

Horizontal Park

Development of the Atrium through Program Allocation

Vertical Vertical Park Park

Office Garden

Podium

Green Arch

Shift in volumes to acquire spatial condition for Greenary within the tower

Visual Connectivity among Programs

Horizontal and Vertical Ventilation

Shift in volumes to acquire spatial condition for Greenary within the tower

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Office Garden

Green Arch

Distribution of the Programs thoughout the Tower

Shift in Volumes To acquire spatial conditions for Parks and Gardens

Vertical Park

Office Garden

Horizontal and Vertical Ventilation

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WIDER CONSULATION AREA

41 - 50

31 - 40

21 - 30

11 - 20

AREA INAPPROPRIATE FOR TALL BUILDINGS

RANGE ( METER IN AOD )

10 +

SITES WITH PLANNING CONSENT FOR TALL BUILDINGS

MULTIPLE WAY ROAD

ONE WAY ROAD

LOCATION OF THE TOWER

E N T PEAK HR

E N T 24 HR

ITERATION 1

ITERATION 2

T 24 HR CONSERVATION AREA GRADE A LISTED BUILDINGS

HEIGHT RANGE ( METER IN AOD )

LOCATION OF THE TOWER

ARCHEOLOGICAL PRIORITY ZONE ( APZ)

LOCATION OF THE TOWER

100 +

EXISTING PEDESTRIAN MOVEMENT POSSIBLE PEDESTRIAN MOVEMENT

51 - 100

41 - 50

31 - 40

21 - 30

11 - 20

EXISTING PEDESTRIAN MOVEMENT

10 +

POSSIBLE PEDESTRIAN MOVEMENT

HERITAGE VALUE SITES WITH PLANNING CONSENT FOR TALL BUILDINGS

POSSIBLE VISUAL CONNECTION TO ADJEACENT GREEN SPACES HIGH FOREST CONNECTION

MULTIPLE WAY ROAD

LOW FOREST CONNECTION

ONE WAY ROAD

TOWER

POSSIBLE VISUAL CONNECTION TO ADJEACENT GREEN SPACES HIGH FOREST CONNECTION

LOCATION OF THE TOWER

CORRIDOR

LONDON LOW LINE PROPOSAL FOR BLACKFRIARS RAILWAY

CORRIDOR

LOW FOREST CONNECTION

SOLAR AND WIND ANALYSIS

Site Analysis Heights of the surrounding buildings and types of road

Site Analysis Different Green Spaces and Pedestrian Movement

NORTH

REA

8:00 am

LONDON LOW LINE PROPOSAL FOR BLACKFRIARS RAILWAY

OR TALL BUILDINGS

NORTH

EAST

WEST

OFFICE

RESIDENTIAL HOUSING CULTURAL INSTITUTION

4:00 pm

SOUTH

4:00 pm

EAST

WEST

12:00 am 1200 Lux Avg 12:00 am 900 Lux Avg

SOUTH

RELIGIOUS INSTITUTION

SPEED RANGE ( MPH ) 11.39 % 40.48 %

CALM

Average Year Round Sun Path June

11.39 % 40.48 %

CALM

TY ZONE ( APZ) Direction of the Major Wind Flow

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34.69 %

9.69 %

3.74 % 0.79 % 0.12 % 0.0035% NEAR GALE

Direction of the Major Wind Flow

December

SPEED RANGE ( MPH )

NGS

34.69 %

9.69 %

3.74 % 0.79 % 0.12 % 0.0035%

LOCATION OF THE TOWER

PEDESTRIAN Wind SpeedEXISTING Analysis

NEAR GALE

MOVEMENT

POSSIBLE PEDESTRIAN MOVEMENT POSSIBLE VISUAL CONNECTION TO ADJEACENT GREEN SPACES HIGH FOREST CONNECTION

Environmental Factors Affecting the Orientation of the Massing

Sungho Choi

CONCEPT & VISION DEVELOPMENT CONSTRUCTION OF ARTIFICIAL NATURE: ACHIEVE WELLNESS IN OCCUPIERS AND WIDER PUBLIC RECONNECTION TO THE LAND: THE INTRODUCTION OF VERTICAL FARM AND ALLOTMENT

EMERGENT OF LANDSCAPE IN SPACE FOR ALLOTMENT, FUNCTIONING AS VISUAL GARDEN

SCENES FROM THE MOVIE LAPUTA

RESEARCH OF EXISTING VERTICAL GREEN TOWER TYPOLOGIES :

INSPIRATIONS

SOCIAL CONTACT & BELONGING EXTENSION TO ADJACENT CONTEXT

URBAN OPENING

A M O R E P A C I F I C H Q, S E O U L B Y D A V I D C H I P P E R F I E L D PERMEABLE LATTICE CITY BY UNIV OF SINGAPORE

UTOPIAN URBAN FUTURE

GENEROUS ATRIUM

SKY GARDEN

PACIFIC HOTEL,SINGAPORE BY WOHA ARCHITECTS

INTRODUCTION OF NATURE PENETRATING TO INTERIOR OF THE TOWER

NATURAL VENTILATION SKY LIGHT AIR PATHWAY

THE EMPIRE CITY, HO CHI MINH CITY BY OLE SCHEEREN

CONCEPT SKETCHES VERTICAL HABITATION

EXTERIOR

INTERIOR

SKY FOREST CITY TOWER,SINGAPORE BY WOHA ARCHITECTS

Concept Development Concept sketch of the artificial landscape within tower

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View of the Atrium Park Hydroponic and aquaponic system within the atrium park

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Concept Sketch of the Allotment Garden for Residents

Allotment Garden for Residential Housing Concept Sketch of the Vertical Park

Concept Sketch of the Allotment Garden for Office

Vertical Park

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Allotment Garden for Office

Detail of the existing tunnel spreading out into the horizontal park

The Introduction of Horizontal & Vertical Allotment Parks & Gardens Emergent of vertical landscape in space for allotment: Functioning as a garden for occupiers and visual park for the wider public

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5th Floor Planof the tower Ground ï¬&#x201A;oor plan SouthBank Tower

CIRCULATION DIAGRAM:

ACCESS OF HORIZONTAL AND VERTICAL ALLOTMENT PARKS & GARDENS BY DIFFERENT USER GROUPS

Black Friars Bridge Southwark St Bear Ln

BankSide

Tate Modern

Types of Circulation Scale 1:250

Public

Office employees

Holland St

BankSide

20 m

Residents Ground Floor Entry

Second Floor Entry

Circulation Diagram Access of horizontal and vertical allotment parks and gardens by different users

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Ground Floor Plan

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DETAIL SECTION:

ZOOM IN OF PRIVATE ALLOTMENT GARDENS FOR OFFICE WORKERS & RESIDENTS

Zoom in of the Residential Allotment Gardens

Detail Section of Private Allotment Gardens for Office and Housing Additional distribution of the sunlight for areas not accesible for the sunlight to penetrate

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Zoom in of the Office Allotment Gardens

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View of the Residential Allotment Garden Allotment garden focused on food production

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DIFFERENTIATION OF THE FACADE DIFFERENTIATION OF THE FACADE DIFFERENTIATION OF THE FACADE

3 cell u

3 Cell Unit

2 cell u

2 Cell Unit

Housing

Residential Housing

1 Cell Unit

Vertical Park

Podium

Iteration 1

Iteration 2

Solar Analysis

Balcony Distribution on the Facade of the Residential Complex Allotment Garden focused on food production

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Solar Analysis

Vertical Park

Office

1 cell u

Office

Podium

Program Distribution

Office Louvre

Podium

Office

Louvr

Podium

Facade Distribution

Program Distribution Facade Distribution Program Distribution Solar AnalysisSolar Analysis Program Distribution Facade

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LAST-MILE DELIVERY CENTRE Angelina Kiryukhina

The mixed-use high rise brings logistics facilities and housing engages with social context of VNEB Opportunity Area. It combines a last-mile delivery centre with student accommodation, food market and art gallery in response to increasing reliance on e-commerce, pressure on urban logistics development and population growth in London. The vertical delivery centre uses automation in storage, processing facilities and autonomous vehicles as a driving force to make deliveries more sustainable serving on the city scale and tower scale. The design provides inter-program interaction in the delivery centre to improve quality of London urban life. The ground level creates a dynamic dialogue between delivery logistics and visitors flows in customer interface areas and the outdoor market to socialise, support local traders and community with river views. From the podium vehicular and pedestrian movements are directed into the lower rise and upper rise respectively. The upper rise has vertical street as a connector of co-existing of public and semi-private spaces of market and gallery. Vertical street is stairs and atriums arranged in a spiral around the tower. They visually connect sweeping exterior and interior views through structural enclosures and are a platform for social interactions.

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National Rail and Underground stations

Primary road

Construction works

Secondary road

Commercial

Tertiary road

Leisure centre School National Rail Vauxhall Bus and Underground Kennington Station Nine Elms Vauxhall Bridge

National Rail tracks Park pathways Embankment One way

Local connections

Two way

Civic

Vehicular

Commercial Empty plot

Victoria Line

Green space

National Rail

Residential River Site

Area and nodes

Circulation

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Design criteria

Museum

Market Several points of entry - efﬁcient circulation Wide pathway - market stalls are visible from afar

BOH is completely hidden and centralised - reduced distance Wide and tall corridors - efﬁcient circulation for large artworks transportation

Gallery spaces are arranged non-linearly - visual exchange and comparison of artworks Gallery spaces are visible from library and cafes - visual and social learning

Streamlined services

BOH is completely hidden and centralised - speedy processing of orders and delivery Order and collection points or vehicle stationsare close to service lifts - reduced delivery route

Visual accessibility

Stakeholders Solar accessibility

Internal Film Live perfomance

Sponsorships and partnerships Internal communications and PR

Cultural department

Communications department

Building Security

External

Security department

Museum director Legal & ﬁnancial department Management Legal

Agency accountant

Maintenance

Visitors

Cleaners Engineers Plumbers Electricians

Residents Locals Tourists Members Groups

Superviser Cafe owners

Common space

Rooms

Art studio

Common space

Rooms

Foyer

Exhibition space

Maintenance Order and collection points operators

Rooms

Common space

Cafe

Rooms

Tea & coffee

Bakery

Rooms

Reception

Common space

Entrance

Food manufacturers Government

Bakery

Dairy

Grain Dining hall

Cafe

Order & collection

Perishable products storage

Control room

Units of scale

W/C

Performance space

Rehearsal space

Kitchen

Cinema

Fruits

Jams Sweets

Entrance

Cafe

Fresh juices

Entrance

Hall

Book storage

Food packaging

Wine

Reception

Cloakroom

Coffee

Shop

Flowers

Library

Residents Tourists Groups Elderly

Shop

Hall

Multipurpose room

Customers

Entrance

Vegetables

W/C

Cleaners Plumbers Electricians Drivers

Laundry

Common space

Exhibition space

Market stall owners

Waiters Cashiers Managers

Storage

Exhibition space

External

Internal

Art dealers Sponsoring companies Government

Accounting Expenses Revenues

W/C

Ofﬁce

Publishing Administrative and ﬁnancial Manufacturing

Exhibition space

Conference room

Publications department

Stakeholders

Fish

Butcher

Preparation

Storage Private area

Recycling room

Semi-private

Drop off

Public

Loading bay

Storage

Conservation workshop

Public access Semi-public access Private access Cross-program connections

BOH elevator

Food delivery connections Visual access

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Owners

Floors

Westminster

Programs

Floor 20 Single en-suite room - 30 m2

Private entreprenerus

36-38

corners - more space and views

Food market

River

Vauxhall Park

Common room -- public, open Study spaces -- semi-private, semi-enclosed near common room Rooms -- private, fully enclosed

Standard twin -- 20 m2

(shared bathroom, built-in kitchen)

Visual connection

sides - less space and views

Battersea Park

Floor 8

UAL

9-35

Exhibition space -- open, corners and near voids for visibility Art studios -- enclosed, reconfigurable with wall partitions

Student accommodation

Visual connection

Floor 5

Exhibition space -- open Cafe -- open Order & collection -- near market and BOH lifts for efficiency Visual connection

UAL

5-8

Art studio Public gallery

Vauxhall 1 BID Private entrepreneurs

4-6

Cafes Food court

Warehouse

Nuro FedEx Starship

G-2

Floor 4

Food court -- open Order & collection -- near market and BOH lifts for efficiency Visual connection

Bikes//robots Loading bay Parking

Basement

HGV loading bay High bay warehouse Office Quality assurance dept and storage Automated food delivery station

HGV loading bay Warehouse

Perspective Section: Ownership and Program Stacking

Institutional and commercial owners sponsoring construction costs and daily operation of student housing, delivery centre, food market and art gallery.

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Plans

Zoning based on private-public enclosures, interior-exterior visual connections and circulation.

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LAST-MILE DELIVERY WORKFLOW Order/collection

BASEMENT DELIVERY CENTRE PLAN Processing/storing

1 3

2 1

Customers order and collect at the entrance from the outdoor food market 1- reception desk 2- Unicar Telelift automated delivery Micro scale inbound delivery: tower

Outbound

Goods movement Automated food delivery movement

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Delivery items are checked in/out and retrieved from/taken to storage 1- High bay manual warehouse (floor 4) 2- High bay automated warehouse (basement) and Unicar Telelift station 3 - Office Macro scale outbound delivery: city

Inbound

2 goods lifts and 1 automated delivery lift to distribute to visitors, residents and traders

1 - Arrival/departure 2 - Processing 3 - Storing 4 - Quality assurance

HGV loading bay High bay warehouse Office Quality assurance dept Automated food delivery station

Arrival/departure to/from the loading bays from the site 1 - moped/bikes/robots drive-in (ground - 3 floors) 2 - HGV ramp (ground - basement) 3 - autonomous vehicles (ground floor)

Angelina Kiryukhina

Structure and enclosure Primary

Primary

Core layout

straight standardised student housing

joined and opened

Student housing Art gallery

larger market and gallery floor area shared circulation and atriums enclosures

Exoskeleton enclosures define spiral shared circulation and shifting atriums

Food market BOH Automated food delivery MEP room

narrowed delivery centre ramp and parking reduced floor

Storage

Exoskeleton and glazing

Floor plates and central core

Megacolumns enclosures

Secondary

floor plates columns HGV ramp

dâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Humy ramp

shear walls shear walls

Basement delivery

Delivery centre ground - third floors

Structure Exp 18 Mix-up: Tall Towers

Angelina Kiryukhina

Existing residential neighbourhood

Underground, National Rail, Bus stations

Existing residential neighbourhood

Future residential neighbourhood

Market visitors Gallery visitors Students Delivery vehicles Most elevator stops Least elevator stops

Movement

Structural Enclosures and Spiral Movement

Pedestrian and delivery vehicular circulation from the transportation hub, existing and future residential neighbourhoods to the podium and tower.

Exoskeleton openings correlate to the public program circulation via stairs. Corner megacolumns enclose the cycle and moped drive-in ramp and loading bays.

Exp 18 Mix-up: Tall Towers

Angelina Kiryukhina

Stations

Delivery to Central London SE postcodes

Pedestrian zone Vehicular zone Entry point Loading Security Order and collection point (food delivery and public

Delivery to SW postcodes

Pedestrian (public) movement Pedestrian (students) BOH movement Vehicular movement Routing: direction Automated food

Residential neighbourhood

Site and Podium Movement Exp 18 Mix-up: Tall Towers

Angelina Kiryukhina

Vertical street Private Common room Studentsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; lounge and cafe Art studio

Art studio

Private gallery Cafe / Public gallery Cafe / Public gallery Food court

Public Cafe / Public gallery

Food court

Voids and atriums follow circulation for spiralling visual connection

Movement Visual connection

Vertical street Exp 18 Mix-up: Tall Towers

Angelina Kiryukhina

Public gallery floor facing the cafe and food market and overlooking City of London tower cluster and Westminster.

Food market floor facing the cafe and overlooking the river, Central and North London.

Vertical street Shared circulation is a facilitator of spiralling vertical movement between public programs and a space of contemplation, social interactions. Voids and atriums following staircases activate sweeping views of the inteior and city.

Exp 18 Mix-up: Tall Towers

Angelina Kiryukhina

Museum for the Senses Vian Rasool The goal of this project is to break the conventional use of a tower for the sole purpose of residential and office by introducing special programs which promote community interaction. A mix-use tower that includes a museum, a co-working space and winter gardens. Currently the in the UK there is a growing trend of professionals looking for flexible jobs which do not require the typical 9-5 working hours. Having a space that allows people to work from home was essential. A museum that allows the users to explore the different senses and that does not constrain the them to follow a specific circulation. The top of the tower aims to be an attraction for external public by having spacial connection in between spaces. The project challenges community interactions by creating a tower that includes a variety of spatial contidions.

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Residential A living space with a 30% of affordable housing

Playground/ Kids Activities

Residents Only Meetings Room

Event Room

Museum An exhibition space that enhance the senses

Explore

Co-working

Workshop Room

Work

Conference Room

A space where people can work together

Meetings Room

Focus

Video Conference Room

Individual Booths

Isolated

Relax

Isolated and Connected

Green Areas A green space that can be adapt on the needs

Isolated

Isolated and Connected

Exposed and Connected

Exposed

Diagram Different criteria of physical spaces are applied on the project depending on the programs

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Exposed and Connected

Elevation The project aims to create physical and visual connections by specially made spaces, which are exposed or private.

Vian Rasool

Residential - Section A residential that includes a green area for gathering that visually connects the different floors.

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Residential - Plan The green area is shared between the flats on the same level

Vian Rasool

Museum - Section The proposal includes a museum that enhances the other senses through purposely made room and indirectly through spatial organization.

Sound Smell Touch

Co-working - Section The co-working space offers different spatial organization, for public meeting and private appointments.

Exp 18 Mix-up: Tall Towers

Vian Rasool

Restaurant - Section A restaraunt that can be rent out for events as well.

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Restaurant - Plan The rooms in the restaurant are physically connected by ramps.

Vian Rasool

Ground Level Circulation

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Vian Rasool

Ground Level Pods The proposal includes areas at ground level such as a convention centre, a showroom and a supermarket.

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Vian Rasool

Museum interiors collage

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Vian Rasool

Tower in context

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Vian Rasool