PROJECT 54

"ELASTIC WOODSCRAPER II"

Weingartner Architects

More than a distinguishing mark on the landscape, this slim hybrid Tower with a height of up to 180 meter aims to become an attractive meeting point for the Community and a fun new way of life for the Residents. On a small site with a small footprint up to 300 people can live, play and work together. Why 300 people? Because history shows that 300 people build a happy, strong lasting community that works.

The design of the elastic_WOODSCRAPER II consists of up to 8 light strong wooden Skycubes – each equipped with 15 elastic_LIVING®Apartments by Angelo Roventa on 3 floors, locally sourced,  lifted and stacked in zig zag manner, cantilevered off from a hidden central RConcrete core – almost flying effortless above the shared Lobby Cube. The Skycubes are prefabricated, mounted on site. Each elastic_LIVING Apartment offers up to 225 M2 (!) Living Area, a Wellness Bathroom, a Private Room, 360 degree Panorama Views and Rooftop Terrace on top of each Skycube with an Urban Garden (www.urbanfarmers.com), Playground, Whirlpool & Sauna, Sun Terrace & Barbecue for the Residents and their guests.

The unconcealed Wood Skycube Space Grid Structure is protected by an advanced smart triple smart structural glazing envelope that changes light transmission properties under the application of voltage. The glass skin saves costs for heating, air-conditioning and lighting and avoids the cost of installing and maintaining motorized light screens or blinds or curtains. An integrated LED matrix inside the skycube envelope gives artificial Light and communicates: As soon as the central control system senses the absence of human users in an elastic_WOODSCRAPER II space, it shifts the control of the building’s lighting elements to a secondary network, which unifies all individual lights and orchestrates them to show comprehensive three-dimensional light choreography. The negotiation between spaces “actually” in use and those spaces taken over by the artistic control will be a constant and essential aspect – those residents and users who actually live in the space blur and distort the perfect picture and the illusion of the elastic_WOODSCRAPER II as a some kind of coordinated organism.

The slender RConcrete core will contain up to 5 smart elevators, 2 scissor fire stairs and risers for plumbing and power.

More details about the project here.