Site

 

The  prototypical site in China, Wuxi City, Jiangsu Province, allows the  exploration of  issues of displacement and cultural identity  as well as those of community  and diversity as defined by architectural form, The smart city leverages  both passive and active technologies in its formation this includes the local , as a definition of connectivity , with off-grid networks  owned by the inhabitants. It is proposed that the physical and material qualities of this construct should manifest itself in a porous coral like form, these can either appear as slices joined together to form a more conventional urban grain or as in this instance become a stacked series of evolving circumstances defined by the consequence of the internal and external environment.  

Concept 

 

The banyan tree deposits additional downward branches to stabilise its imposed load much in the manner of this structure, Osteon city maximises the potential of a small footprint, touching the earth lightly, while providing the maximum in amenity, at times appearing as a cumulonimbus cloud formation, and at others as a floating forest.

Ethos 

 

The proposition considers the nature of the skyscraper as a 210-floor community, where work, retail, hospitality, leisure and residential accommodation form an aerial community serviced horizontally by driverless cars and bicycles Segways and pedestrian routes.