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MAD architects: urban forest
urban forest, chongqing, china
all images courtesy of MAD architects
MAD architects has sent us images of a new project, urban forest, located in chongqing, china.
drawing on the mountainous landscape of the country, the commercial high-rise building,
is made up of curved, abstracted shaped floors which have been layered slightly off-center
from one another. connected by a core cylindrical structure, each level's interior is
protected by full length glass windows with a see-through, wrap around balcony.
this provides transparency throughout the building, and makes the floors almost seem as if
they are floating on top of one another. the overall design brings together nature and the
urban metropolis, with the incorporation of green space and large expansive views of the city.
urban forest, concept and night view
at night
detail
amongst the city skyline
it seems fragile, would it resist earthquakes?
Does this kind of project propose something new to think o make a reflection in architectural terms?
...yeahh that would be so cool!... blablabullshit
It's well rendered an maybe in the future trees can be grown with neat hydro roots?
Relax it's just an idea.....
For me its as insane, phalic, unsafe, etc, as all its neighboors... yet, less boring...
i remember the last gehry one though
This is definetly not a fast sketch, everyone who made renderings in this quality knows what I am talking about.
In the end it is a phantastic sketch, a great phantasie and a I am shure buildable, with a little help of people who likes to get visions going. But this, but that, but here, but there - just stupid trashtalking coming in most cases from pampered people can't hold a pencil the right way.
http://www.mvrdv.nl/#/projects/asia/417gwanggyopowercentre
Check out, www.yassai7.com
Although yeah, Chongqing isn't too far from the epicentre of the Sichuan earthquake that hit in 2008 (close enough for the city to shake pretty violently) and this doesn't look all that earthquake proof...
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