Future Cities Perspectives (part 2)
Recently have been announced the winners of the 2018 Skyscraper Competition. The award was established in 2006 to recognize outstanding ideas for vertical living. The competition is an investigation on the public and private space and the role of the individual and the collective in the creation of a dynamic and adaptive vertical community. These ideas, through the novel use of technology, materials, programs, aesthetics, and spatial organizations, challenge the way to understand vertical architecture and its relationship with the natural and built environments.
HONORABLE MENTIONS
LAX 2.0: THE VERTICAL AIRPORT
Jonathan Ortega
United States
Aviation has made the world a smaller place. A century ago it would take weeks to travel across a continent by rail, and months to traverse the oceans by ship; today, travelers can cross an ocean in a matter of hours and circumnavigate the globe in a few short days. As air travel has shrunk the world, however, aviation infrastructure has expanded exponentially. Today’s airports use a massive amount of space for terminals, concourses, taxiways, and runways. This growth is compounded by the surrounding roads and highways feeding into, out of, and around these sprawling airport complexes. Moreover, airports are often hemmed in by the surrounding infrastructure, limiting future growth and complicating current designs. The use of verticality of structures, while not new, opens up new opportunities for development and expansion of airports into smaller footprints, leaving more available land for green space as well as for other development possibilities. Future airports can take advantage of verticality to reduce their land use.
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