FLEXmod Skyscraper

By:  | March - 30 - 2011

Finalist
2011 Skyscraper Competition

Nick Ochoa, Sabrina Brenner, Michael Krause
United States

Flexible-Modular (FLEXmod) puts the power of form and program into the hands of the occupant. A lightweight mutable structure can be sculpted to desired shape, function, and size. With the ability to change from iteration to iteration with ease, architecture becomes the symbol of the owner. The FLEXmod system can be utilized universally as either individual units or combined with additional units to create spaces and structures that span infinity.

In the instance depicted by this project, the need for a residential community has arisen. FLEXmod units comprised together form the superstructure for residential tower like compositions. Additional FLEXmod units dedicated to housing and support spaces plug into the superstructure. A complex form of private spaces integrated into various public spaces feeds the notion of a unified community.

As a model for a movement representational of sustainability, units are only added as necessary. Rather than creating a building that is designed for a set of criteria, the building becomes designed by the needs of the inhabitants. If a decreased need for program occurs, units are simply removed and transported to other sites or stored efficiently.

Imagine a generation able to grow, develop, and thrive instantaneously within one structure.


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