2011 Skyscraper Competitors New York City
eVolo is pleased to invite students, architects, engineers, and designers from about the globe to take component in the 2011 Skyscraper Competitors. The annual eVolo Skyscraper Competitors is a forum for the discussion, development, and promotion of innovative concepts for vertical density. It examines the relationship in in between the skyscraper and the natural world, the skyscraper and the community, and the skyscraper and the city.The exponential improve of the world’s population and its unprecedented shift from rural to urban places has prompted hundreds of new developments with out adequate urban planning and poor architectural style. The aim of this competitors is to redefine what we comprehend as a skyscraper and initiate a new architectural discourse of economic, environmental, intellectual, and perceptual responsibility that could ultimately modify our cities and improve our way of life.The use of new materials, technologies, aesthetics, and novel spatial organizations, along with studies on globalization, flexibility, adaptability, and the digital revolution are some of the multi-layered components that the participants ought to take into consideration. This is also an investigation on the public and private space and the role of the person and the collective in the creation of a dynamic and adaptive
vertical community.There are no restrictions in regards to website, program or size. The objective is to offer maximum freedom to the participants to engage the project with out constraints in the most inventive way. What is a skyscraper in the 21st century? What are the historical, contextual, social, urban, and environmental responsibilities of these mega-structures?
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