half of the terrace is unwalkable, the other part will need shading since the building is located in mediterranean climate.
The void space in the chain can be used for high speed alternative circulation - escalators. one of the escalators would connect the "artificial ground level"s and the other would be in two pieces allowing landing on the mid-levels.
These are the apartment in one compartment. each compartment has 12 apartments.
4 of them (the sandwiched one) are smaller. the others spread on two levels. (left)
The walkways to the otherside of the ring. 2m wide. (right)
in this version,
instead of having 1 lift, 4 lifts fit into the core.
the ring is 40m wide instead of 32m
red is the shared space, yellow is the void, green is the private, magenta is public programme.also the alignments are fixed, 6m x 6m is the core, shared and void spaces are 8m x 8m and the corridore is wider than the older version: 2m.
If the corridores had ceilings that are transparent/translucent more light would go into the space around the core.
every
two levels (6m) makes one apartment. so on each compartment, there are
8 apartments. every two apartment also forms a corner unit - creating
one compartment when 4 of them comes together.
frame 01 : the vertical shared space for 4 apartments, frame 02 : artificial ground levels with opennings allowing light in, frame 03 : the lower apartments, frame 04 : the upper apartments, frame 05 : public / sports programme frame 06 : continuous shared space for the other side for the other 4 apartments. frame 07 : the void space / potentially to be used as public circulation, restaurants and bars.
the ring is changed in this version.
there's the outer and inner ring.
the outer is the residential programme and inner is shared / public programmes.
upper compartments can ideally host sports, restaurants.
this type of a tower is interesting because in this configuration, very much desired public programmes are not trapped on the ground levels and they can be hosted in the core of the tower having views over the city.
in the animation;
green is residential
blue is the public
pink is the floor for each community.
the size of the ring is now 32m
while one shared space is always attached to the lift, the other circulates around the ring forming another type of connection vertically.
the other square is the void.
each duplicated tower hosts one core.
the core moves around the ring on each level until it reaches the same location on the top floor.
i'm working both on digial and physical model for the site.
the site is located now on 100m north of the old one. the old site was too narrow to experiment with multiple towers. the site still has the same social context, crazy contrast between the cheaper housing district and the crazily expensive condoniums next to each other.
the highway is morphing to a street in the last decade. this was meant to be the outskirts of istanbul in 90's.
only the highway - underground system provides the access to these towers. they are all worlds within themselves. a mosque next to a 238m tall residential tower shares almost nothing with eachother. the giant tower next to the site, Sapphire Istanbul is like a sitting person facing his back to the real city.
This violence should not happen with the chain tower on this site.
the black part represents 0m depth / the edge,
as the colour goes lighter, for each step the depth changes +600mm
the shared spaces in two opposite corners, on every level the rotation also happens for these shared spaces. which can allow level 1-3, 2-4 connections.
this is representing the inner space surrounded by the apartments...
again, assuming the aparment rings are filled, this rotating model is trying to show the negative space around the rings.
again, assuming the aparment rings are filled, this rotating model is trying to show the negative space around the rings.
on the model below, the shift on each level was 3.5m, here the shift for rotation is 6.0m.
when one of the units is missing on the outer ring of the level on top, 2.5m of gap can have function like allowing more daylight to the sky courtyards / larger shared spaces.
not on every level the same corners are the shared spaces,
on the snake chain, the idea was to have one end as shared space and the other corner as void. here, by rotation this rule is applied to different corners.
the void can make space for a slightly larger shared space between different levels.
on the snake chain, the idea was to have one end as shared space and the other corner as void. here, by rotation this rule is applied to different corners.
the void can make space for a slightly larger shared space between different levels.
making the shift of levels a little more extreme can be an option too, right now the shift is 2.5m's on every level.
