Skyscape
Studio Patrik Schumacher
Tutors Pierandrea Angius
Team Luca Paolo Bacilieri, Devansh Daisaria, Du Huang, Jingwen Su
The changing climatic conditions affect lives ever more around the world. As a result, we are in a desperate desire of an urban development that is more sustainable and environmentally friendly, a resilient approach to confront any possible climatic calamities. We see climatic conditions as a new frontier for architectural design and want to address these imminent transformations with new architectural morphologies. We believe that communities can have better and thriving lives by addressing these issues through architectural design and by doing so will be are able to enhance daily social lives and ensure future prosperity.
The thesis aims at achieving an ecologically resilient productive landscape that is user-sensitive and city-centric, as well as economically generative and physically adaptable to the context. The research and findings conclude with a pilot-project for a distressed community and recreates strategies to engage the public in establishing resilience to flooding through a combination of top-down and bottom-up approaches.
The research also explores engineering and urban architectural methodology and investigates strategies for reducing or preventing the overall impact of ecological crises through adaptive urban super-structures – commonly known as skyscrapers/high rise or towers. Throughout the process we test ways of translating non-architectural concepts into architectural forms that can effect a changing perspective, raise awareness, and encourage the production of a new urban fabric, which enhances social life processes.