An explanation written in Dec. 2009 The Hyper Tower in 2090
“Hyper tower or vertical city is based on the concept that a city could have more space for open space or nature conservation at ground level if the city was expanded vertically rather than horizontally”. (MVRDV, 2005) It is an outcome of maximizing density on minimum land. Therefore, with no usable land for horizontal expansion, hyper tower is inevitable in new London. Furthermore, it evolved to be more self-sustainable and more isolated from external environment in a catastrophic environment. It is a structure with a nuclear power station in the center and a series of concentric function layers surrounded. The function layers include: residential layer, traffic layer and social layer. Near the core, the personal space for every inhabitant is provided in residential layer to ensure their basic living requirements. At the surrounding, working space, communication space, and entertainment space are set in social layer to meet their higher demands for social activities. And in between, the traffic system connects the residential and social layers together both vertically and horizontally. This sequence follows a natural rule in fruits, which keep the seeds of life in the core and the nutriments at the pulp. Also this arrangement distributes the sunshine and functional space efficiently. Retails, restaurants, and plazas obtained the most sufficient sunshine, because residents were expected to spend most of their daytime in this area. Contrarily, residential layer with living capsules exclusively, is fully adopted by artificial illumination, because residents were expected to stay in their personal room only in bed time. In short, it could be seen as a diversified first type tower or a compacted third type tower group, with concentric function layers which is similar with the ones in pyramid.
“Hyper tower or vertical city is based on the concept that a city could have more space for open space or nature conservation at ground level if the city was expanded vertically rather than horizontally”. (MVRDV, 2005) It is an outcome of maximizing density on minimum land. Therefore, with no usable land for horizontal expansion, hyper tower is inevitable in new London. Furthermore, it evolved to be more self-sustainable and more isolated from external environment in a catastrophic environment. It is a structure with a nuclear power station in the center and a series of concentric function layers surrounded. The function layers include: residential layer, traffic layer and social layer. Near the core, the personal space for every inhabitant is provided in residential layer to ensure their basic living requirements. At the surrounding, working space, communication space, and entertainment space are set in social layer to meet their higher demands for social activities. And in between, the traffic system connects the residential and social layers together both vertically and horizontally. This sequence follows a natural rule in fruits, which keep the seeds of life in the core and the nutriments at the pulp. Also this arrangement distributes the sunshine and functional space efficiently. Retails, restaurants, and plazas obtained the most sufficient sunshine, because residents were expected to spend most of their daytime in this area. Contrarily, residential layer with living capsules exclusively, is fully adopted by artificial illumination, because residents were expected to stay in their personal room only in bed time. In short, it could be seen as a diversified first type tower or a compacted third type tower group, with concentric function layers which is similar with the ones in pyramid.
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