“Connected Tower” will tackle the challenge of radically decomposing the tower in order to liberate it from its current fixed typology dominated by the repetition and segmentation. Istanbul presents itself as a crucial model in this challenge, due to the increasing high-rise construction during recent years in specific parts of the city. Therefore, taking the existing architectural characteristics of the high-rise buildings and their urban implications in Istanbul, “Connected Tower” aims to set the tower free from its existing binary axioms – building and city, circulation and habitation, structure and skin. The tower here becomes an extreme testing ground where it can evolve from being a solitary type to a novel vertical system described with the qualities of adaptation, integration, and fluidity. The design process highlights learning from the integrated nature of biological systems in order to infuse vertical systems with adaptive, multi-functional qualities. The generation of differentiated verticality is carried out by algorithmic design processes in various computation platforms. The creations in the digital world are tested and realized with digital fabrication processes involving various CNC methods, leading to the production of physical prototypes of various scales. In relation with the agenda, a series of lectures by leading academics and professionals will be organized as part of the public events of the School.
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| AA Istanbul Visiting Schools |
The extreme spatial dimension of verticality will be put to the test through an online platform linking the workshop with another AA Visiting School, AA Athens, which is taking horizontality as its agenda. Participants are encouraged to join both workshops in order to experience the transition between the two architectural limits.
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| AA Istanbul Visiting Schools |
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| AA Istanbul Visiting Schools |
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| AA Istanbul Visiting Schools |
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| AA Istanbul Visiting Schools |
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| AA Istanbul Visiting Schools |
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| AA Istanbul Visiting Schools |
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| AA Istanbul Visiting Schools |
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| AA Istanbul Visiting Schools |
