Ecotower
What is the humane connection? -as part of an Eco-system. “We need in particular to get beyond those habits which made the city a thing to be engineered with the aim of containing and controlling social processes. Planning methods, with their strong utopian antecedents, have often presumed a fixed spatial order underpinning an idealized social stability. They have conceived an ideal correspondence between spatial form and a regular, mechanical social purpose, and imposed that form, fixing fixtures in an often banal or repressive caricature of the exact utopia concerned” Future City, Stephen Read. Utopia is an ideal community or society possessing a perfect socialpolitico-legal system. The word Utopia means “no place”. How to approach Eco-tower? The idea and evolution of form; as Architecture, as Use, as Atmosphere and as Identity. As art of Experience? The architecture is to be Question and it should go along the lines of Question. Not to give an Answer but to find the Question of what is the Architecture. Question the Architecture of this and when this is the Architecture. Then question how best to Answer. The cycle of the building and its community inhabitants. The use of the building as an instrument. This Eco-tower is not a building it is a master plan? The building is an object of function. Is the presentation about: the sculptural form, as consequence or, performance and event of the inhabitants daily sceptical?
The Eco-tower is located within Munich’s 1972 Olympic Park. To the east is a grassed landscaped public recreation area, south and west is residential neighbourhoods. Directly west of the site is a main roadway into and out of Munich’s city centre. To the north are the main stadiums of the Olympic park, a motor ring road and the Olympic village. The Eco-tower will radically alter the site context. This is the starting leader in the design concept of the Eco-tower. To pull both east and west in, twisting them around and pushing them up out of the ground. This will help integrate the Eco-tower into the area creating a context at human scale which will give a blurring of street scape from city to the vertical village.