Vertical Nation

By:  | June - 6 - 2010

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Vertical urbanization has been much criticized during the last few years and it raises numerous discussions in France. Should we build skyscrapers in Paris? How can we integrate them into an environment where vertical living has not been used? When we consider existing skyscrapers we note an important loss of social exchange. It is necessary to rethink their spatial organization and its relationship with the existing urban fabric and create a structure that benefits the city.

Guy Debord defined ‘psycho-geography’ as the study of the effects of urban tissue organizations on human behavior. This approach is linked to the notion of the ‘dÈrive’, a strategy for reconsidering the city through an exploration of space and time without preconceptions. The organization of the skyscraper should have its origins in the ‘psycho-geography’ of a horizontal urban plan and the interaction between public and private spaces. The Vertical Nation is a city within a city. Circulations are ribbons around the building, treated as streets where all the amenities and programs derive from. These ribbons extend to the city creating a continuous pedestrian flow between the two.

Designed by Maud Sanciaume, Lucie Rieutord, and Jieun Kim

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