Sky-Terra Towers Project

Designed by San Francisco architect Joanna Borek, the towers of up to 1600 feet and extending into the plaza area of the flat layer with green space, 4-foot-wide roads for cars and electric bicycles, rain water collection systems, and on foot are interconnected. Lift is embedded in the core of each tower to bring people to the plaza skyscraper.

sustainable elements into Sky-Terra

Sky-Terra is the concept of giant skyscrapers look like pieces of artwork from the ground, but they do more than just look pretty. Interconnected network of towers, one of the many outstanding entries in the 2009 competition eVolo Skyscraper, Borek’s Sky-Terra skyscrapers designed with Tokyo in mind – a town that was too crowded and want to public recreation space. The purpose of making-Terra Sky is to create a new city in the sky layer made of parks, amphitheaters, fields, and public spaces other. Very different from traditional buildings that block the town from ever seen direct sunlight, sky-Terra tower allows people to get more sun without dealing with the pollution below.

Sky-Terra Towers Plan

For city dwellers who live a more congested area and the solid, becomes more challenging for them to spend time outdoors, sports and leisure. One obstacle is building the tower over the park, blocking sunlight, while the streets are contaminated with particles and exhaust from vehicles. To cope with the growing need for space greenurban, based in San Francisco designer Joanna Borek-Clement had imagined it appears Sky eye-Terra skyscrapers – not just one building, but interconnected network of towers that inspired by the shape of the cell neurons. The skyscraper was given a new layer of city – one closed publicparks, amphitheaters, fields, and swimming pools and public bathhouses.

sky-terra cellular skyscrapers

There are several problems with skyscrapers. The first is the lack of sun rays on the bottom-hole and the space in the plaza’s fins should allow the light to road, but it still looks like the less sunlight will reach the ground than traditional skyscrapers. Then the second is the wind and weather factors when you are at the top. However, this can be anticipated with breakthrough Sky Terra-designed building for the already-congested cities like Tokyo, and for these cities, some green space, direct sunlight and fresh air is better than none at all.

Borek’s Sky-Terra skyscrapers

Joanna Borek-Clement, who also worked for the Bay Area-based DGA, designing many sustainable elements into the Sky-Terra. Transportation system consisting of interconnected walking and walking 4 feet wide intended for motorcycles or small electric cars. Everything that is not a path or road that is intended to be a green space that will help reduce the urban heat island effect. Rainwater collection will provide water for landscaping needs, and the towers’ construction materials consisting of parts of the module that will be mass produced for the conservation of resources and energy.

sky-terra skyscrapers provide public space

This plaza has many options and configurations, from public parks, greenbelts, playground, jogging track, amphitheaters, swimming pools, bath houses – all with the aim of providing people with access to open space.

Sky-Terra skyscrapers building

Core part of every structure which contains the elevator system will transport people from the street level to the top. Office, commercial, and maybe even housing will occupy space fins that extend from the core of the tower. And if you’re worried that the plaza will block the sun to the city streets below, the level of the plaza is designed with holes and spaces between the fins which allow light to beam down. Because it is more sustainable to live in a city, innovative and creative designs such as the Sky-Terra beautiful and can provide efficient solutions to give people access to healthy recreation room.

source : cubeme, inhabitat, joannaborek, woonq