2024 Skyscraper Competition
Honorable Mention
HSH Design Studio
Habib Shahhosaini (principal), Zahra Alishi, Yasna Aliakbari, Sahar Rezaei, Kousar Panahi, Sara Soleimani, Soheyl Behbodi, Asma Irani, Armaghan Shoaei
Iran
Nowadays, everybody discerns the tourism industry as the leading industry of the third millennium.
Based on the predictions made by the World Tourism Organization (WTO), the number of international tourists will reach two billion people in the next 20 years with an average growth of 43 million tourists per year.
Tourism, with all its sub-branches, is the sturdiest, most stable, and safest sector that can offer innumerable chances for employment and significant activities to the inhabitants of the planet. Actually, the tourism industry can support today’s global macroeconomic circulation in a peaceful context and away from environmental risks in an established and developable way.
In line with moving towards sustainable development, the tourism sector can comprise a large amount of economic and social strategies of countries in a promising way, and accordingly, one of the key concerns related to tourism is tourists’ residence. Since tourists must settle in an appropriate place and live there to stay and meet their basic living needs, therefore the diversity and proliferation of accommodation units is an evaluation index in the direction of the countries development level.
Via the aggregate number of tourists, the construction of hotels has augmented, and actually, more land needs construction, which causes the growth of cities and the loss of agricultural land, soil erosion, more pollution of the environment, and jeopardizing the health of people and it adds to the energy crisis that this issue conflicts with the concept of environmental sustainability.
Based on the stated topics, generating a building in the form of a skyscraper that plays the role of a hotel has been chosen as a design topic. A hotel that can not only please tourists but also take steps towards attaining sustainable development. In the design of the skyscraper hotel, it was settled that the building must be replicable and its service facilities should be added this idea of self-replication can work in interaction with the importance of sustainability concepts.
In line with the increase of services of this skyscraper (including rooms), the study of silkworm cocoons as a sustainable biological element in nature was chosen as a design idea.
Silkworm cocoons create an extensive range of dissimilar structures that are a mixture of exclusive physical and chemical properties to interact with different environmental conditions
Studies have revealed that scrutinizing the physical structures and morphology of the silkworm cocoon as two significant parameters of architectural elements can be even more important than the properties of the silk fibers themselves.
The general geometry of the hotel skyscraper is derived from a standing cube like a silkworm cocoon suspended to create diverse and experimental spatial qualities. Silkworm cocoon fiber composites with white color and elliptical shape as a replicable structure provide the possibility to expand the hotel in horizontal and vertical dimensions, if desirable, without the need for land demolition and new constructions.
A self-replicating hotel to achieve environmental sustainability.
