Living Tower - An architectural miracle

The Living Tower is a proposal for a new kind of living in the Melbourne CBD, one which proactively engages inhabitants to imagine and change for a better future. Embracing a concept where ‘sustainable’ is not enough, architecture becomes a catalyst for giving back to the urban and natural environments. Wind, water, solar, and geothermal resources are harvested not only to create better living environments, but to generate algae production, generating energy for the building and back into the power grid.

Conceived as a living Klein bottle, with a continuous skin folding from the inside to out, a street level bio-cube harnesses the cooling effect of a temperate mirco-climate, passively controlling the climate within the tower. Above the bio-cube, pods are inserted into the bottle skin, organised through a recursive aperiodic tessellation. An algorithm for growth and decay, with mathematical properties related to phi, the tessellation creates distinct spatial properties, as well as a strong organic quality to the architecture.

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Veronica Cassandra
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