Skyscraper Variations #1

Skyscraper Internals

Experimenting with the skyscraper core, floors... trying to create some interesting living spaces within the structure. Would you work in an office like that? Is it mandatory nowadays to integrate "green" gardens with trees some 100m above the ground?

Refining the Genotype

...of my genetic algorithm prototype, in order to derive more interesting shapes, actually resembling architecture.

Skyscraper #1

It surely would be hell to build, but I assume that the irregular exoskeleton may prove to be a wind-cheating design. Of course, this is merely a speculation which should be put to the test.

Skyscraper - Getting There!

Well, in the end, it’d have to be architecture. I decided to go for the skyscraper design, since the skyscraper has been the paramount challenge of architecture for more than a hundred years, and it still is.

So in the weeks ahead, I shall design – based on the stuff accumulated so far – a nice, somewhat surreal, skyscraper. What could be more fun?

Tree or Chalice

Joints

Preparing for a Skyscraper

Rise

Simple outisde, complex inside

Bayerischer Zwiebelturm

Uebungen #3

Uebungen #2

Uebungen #1