Taking advantage of air rights above
existing an transportation nexus, this design integrates elevated train lines,
apartments, offices and shops to create a nodal point within NYC.
Chad Kellogg and Matt Bowles of AMLGM clad
the building in a distinctive metal-and-glass skin, intended to be iconic
as well as functionally flexible, adaptive and responsive.
The connective steel structural elements
morph according to an algorithm to allow for larger openings or shaded sections
as needed.
The vertical extrusions shoot upward
using the same language as the horizontal connectors, entries and extensions
that tie the building into the urban fabric.
The design is both oriented toward human
occupation and contextually related to landscape of the surrounding city,
operating effectively at multiple scales.
While similarly audacious large-scale,
mixed-use projects have failed in the past, the density of NYC lends itself to
such a compact, all-in-one approach.
From the designers: “A wide range of living conditions are offered within the one
development. The programmatic options are set within a blend of floor plate
geometries, transitioning from cylindrical to triangular from the base to the
top of each tower. A composite or alloy of multiple flexible systems optimizes
the skin so that each point has unique exposure, and is deployed on a grid that
follows the direction of the surface.”
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