Green Skyscrapers
In the next few days we will showcase 25 innovative proposals for green skyscrapers. These projects were submitted for the Annual Skyscraper Competition from 2006 to 2009.
Project 20 of 25
Domenic Cerantonio, Michael Wu, Wilson Tang
Australia
Poreux is a Project located in Docklands waterfront Melbourne, Australia. It is a proposal to Bridge Docklands to Melbourne centre activity district. The railway tracks split the two places, discouraging a fluid transition of urban life. A Voronoi network is used as the basis of the design concept as an attempt to evenly distribute density of population and programs horizontally and vertically, diffusing the hierarchical organization inherent in a city iron grid to encourage every network reaching its potential. The programs have been scrutinized at both the macro level and micro level to ensure it embraces and contributes to its surrounding to make Docklands a more accessible and a more pleasurable place to be in. Read the rest of this entry »