Imagination Rules the World
Recently have been announced the winners of the 2016 Skyscraper Competition. The award was established in 2006 to recognize outstanding ideas for vertical living. The participants annually try to answer the question: What is a skyscraper in the 21st century? Their imagination knows no bounds, and the most daring ideas shake the most sophisticated minds. The projects presented to the contest often resemble the decorations of the science-fiction movies, but it is quite possible that exactly so will look our reality in the near future.
The participants should take into consideration the advances in technology, the exploration of sustainable systems, and the establishment of new urban and architectural methods to solve economic, social, and cultural problems of the contemporary city including the scarcity of natural resources and infrastructure and the exponential increase of inhabitants, pollution, economic division, and unplanned urban sprawl. There are no restrictions in regards to site, program or size. The objective is to provide maximum freedom to the participants to engage the project without constraints in the most creative way.
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. It is also a response to the exploration and adaptation of new habitats and territories based on a dynamic equilibrium between man and nature - a new kind of responsive and adaptive design capable of intelligent growth through the self-regulation of its own systems. 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. The Jury selected 3 winners and 21 honorable mentions from 489 projects received.
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