The 3.2 brief aims to investigate a post-covid High-Rise. In response, I focused my approach on 3 key themes, Innovation, Sustainability, and Community. From my previous 3.1 unit briefs (held in the first half of the year), I took a keen interest in Parametric Architecture, a computationally driven design to create complex forms and geometries, which my 3.1 Pavilion manifested. I carried this deep interest in parametric and fluid structures as the basis for my 3.2 High Rise proposal.
In addition, I studied Norman Foster’s 30 St. Mary Axe Building, or ‘the Gherkin’, as a precedent to incorporate theory to sustainable and environmentally driven design. The application of the innovation and sustainable driven design from the Gherkin study meant that my 3.2 proposal aims to offset embodied and operational carbon. Landscaping also became an integral focus of my project to encourage outside space, a 'break from the office', improving well-being, productivity, and social cohesion.
