Office for Metropolitan Architecture or better known as OMA has come up with this unique 36-storey residential high-rise in Singapore, four individual apartment towers are vertically offset from one another and suspended from a central core which is what makes it appear as if they’re floating, according to the architect, the lifted towers also reduce the building’s footprint leaving more room for park space and other leisure-related structures on the main floors, if the architect did his homework, he would certainly know by now that Singapore has a lot of green space and leisure related structure for the citizen, almost all within walking distance from residential area.
The design vertically redistributes the floor area in four alternating towers to create a skyscraper in which architectural and urbanistic concerns merge with mechanisms that create added value. The architecture, in this sense, goes beyond form and generates symbiotic qualities
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