ROAMcity
A CONTAINER EXCHANGE COMMUNITY
Our design proposes a commercial base with two endlessly adaptable residential towers that act like “mooring” docks for the shipping containers.
ARCHITECTURE
Our proposal is based on our intent not to expand horizontally by creating a vertical neighborhood; provide a building that questions and inspires behavior, celebrating mobility and flexibility; create a visual emblem and a geometry that weaves and reflects together the larger surrounding context, celebrating the mobility of the container and of the environment, characterized by transient station, Broad Street station, bridges and overpasses; create a community which interacts with the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard and downtown; express and explore the truthful aesthetic expression of the container and of the structural and infrastructural systems; create a kinetic, “active” structure, a living sculpture that celebrates and responds to the ever-changing conditions of our society; consolidate ecological functions in the proposed towers and maximize the performance of both the interior and the exterior environments.
ORGANIZATION
The Towers consist of a multi-storey and sustainable infrastructure containing the service core and the service-container, the living-container “clips-on” and moves with the occupant, getting unloaded and reloaded, swapping to an other container exchange tower or simply within the structure. The fixed parts of the units repeat and rotate every 12° to allow for the double height interstitial “wedge”; this indoor/outdoor ”courtyard” augments the dwelling space with the device of simple sliding glass shutters, which allow the units to open and close the space. The robotic lift not only carries passengers, but also lifts the containers and electric cars. The structure becomes a vertical suburbia composed of courtyard “maisonnettes” cantilevered in the sky. |
