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VERTICAL STACKED CITY
2014 unbuilt
Image credit: Christian Erroi
Height: 250 m / 820 ft
Gross Floor Area:
Corporate Offices: 90,000 m2 /
968,752 ft2;
SOHO: 60,000 m2 / 645,835 ft2
Plot Area: 8,952 m2 / 96,358 ft2
Location: Shenzhen, China
Green Plot Ratio: 440%
Community Plot Ratio: 340%
Civic Generosity Index: (5 thumbs up)
Self-Sufficiency Index:
Energy: 7%; Food: 10%; Water: 5%
Ecosystem Contribution Index:
(2 thumbs up)
As the new city of Shenzhen in southern China has no historic urban grain or pattern of settlement, the Vertical Stacked City sets out to create a sense of sociable street-life by stacking fine-scaled community clusters of Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) between urban-scaled stacks of corporate offices at ‘Multiple Ground Levels’. Rather than the typical indoor shopping podium, the Vertical Stacked City rises above a collection of individual shops within an open air urban plaza. Internal Screens of Green proposed throughout the height of the core are lit by mirrored daylight. Three 6-storey Sky Villages are clustered and cantilevered from the tower, so that a sense of identity and individuality is introduced to the downtown office block. Comprising a mixture of home offices, small offices, and cafes, these naturally-ventilated villages enable the vibrant street life akin to traditional Chinese cities.
• 56-story ‘High-Density, High-Amenity’ skyscraper designed as a ‘City Within a City’, offering a live-work-play lifestyle for residents and workers
• The tower is a humanly scaled ‘Domesticated Megastructure’, which stacks three clusters of SOHO ‘Sky Villages’ on ‘Multiple Ground Levels’ placed between the corporate office floors
• The three clusters form distinct aerial neighborhoods with communal ‘Sky Gardens’ and ‘Tropical Community Spaces’ overlooked by small offices and apartments that surround a vertical atrium
• The central service core is wrapped by ‘Screens of Green’ and the three 6-storey clusters – cantilevered beyond the building envelope – are ventilated and illuminated by ‘Vertical and Horizontal Breezeways’
• Curtain walls of the corporate offices feature building-integrated photovoltaic facades
