Projects / Design Competitions
2008 eVolo Skyscraper Competition
V-Hive for Vertical Hive - a concept for skyscraper design utilizing the natural organic growth of unitary hexagonal cells, which cluster, grow and evolve to form honeycomb colonies in a vertical fashion, and applied to the vertical nature of skyscrapers.
By creating a lattice structure to which these cells can attach, the organic germinating nature of city growth is reproduced. The clustering of individual cells form sky-pod colonies which themselves become “neighborhoods” or “buildings” in a vertical urban environment. Thus the life and energy of the two-dimensional/horizontal urban fabric of the city is continued along on the three-dimensional/vertical axis through the void/core of a transparent and environmentally permeable structure. This allows for the formation of an open-air 360 degree vertical urban corridor—an experiential level of the vertical street.