Skyscraper For Flooded Cities Due To Global Warming
2017 Skyscraper Competition
Editors’ Choice
Jialing Shi
United Kingdom
In recent years, the climate change has been repeatedly mentioned. It is becoming an important factor affecting the urban development. Some coastal cities are in danger of being overwhelmed by climate change, at the same time resulting in irreversible damage to human societies. This program is a proposed spatial solution to this land / urban crisis, which integrates the local factors and spatial information from the surrounding context so the skyscraper could provide an alternative for the environmental disastrous areas. ?Destruction?, ?Regeneration?, and ?Self Sufficient? are the key elements of the program, aiming to create a vibrant space in the desolate environment. The concept is the self-sufficient skyscraper floating on the submerged land area that integrates and substitutes the original social system.
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Source:
evolo
URL:
http://www.evolo.us/category/architecture/
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