Socializing the sky : the typology of tower clusters / Robert Oxman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Oxman, Robert, author.

Contributor:

Anderson, Jake (Managing editor), project manager.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Tall buildings--Design and construction--History--21st century.

Tall buildings.

Towers--Design and construction--History--21st century.

Towers.

Physical Description:

260 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 28 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

Typology of Tower Clusters

Place of Publication:

[Novato, California] : ORO Editions, [2024]

Summary:

"The book presents the remarkable history of the emergence in the past two decades of a dramatically new design of multi-tower and multi-functional tall building clusters. Based upon a decade of architectural research, the book provides a definition of the new typology, here termed The Tower Cluster, and its major concepts, design characteristics, and the typological knowledge required to design creative sub-variants. It provides the detailed analysis of a large series of outstanding recent case studies of the typology. In addition, the book categorizes various types of sky amenities such as sky plazas, sky bridges, sky pools, outlook decks, and other functions that have been, in this new typology, distributed through the vertical order of the tower cluster in order to create a vertical campus containing a designed selection of social, cultural, commercial, and entertainment facilities. The various types of advanced amenities groupings within multi-story residential buildings, hotel buildings, office buildings, and high-tech headquarters/ research buildings are presented and discussed in detail. The design knowledge of tower clusters and their vertical amenity structures are defined, and the definition and general application of typological knowledge in design provides valuable knowledge base for the future design of creative sub-variants of the tower cluster as well as for their urban and landscape development. The highly articulated knowledge component contained in the book becomes a valuable contribution to the future design of tower clusters as well as to the creation of a model of how to define architectural knowledge. It constitutes a brilliant working guide for the design of new skyscrapers."--Back cover.

Contents:

PREFACE: Vertical Urbanism and Early Visions of the Tower Cluster and the Connected City

PART I: Introduction to the History and Sources of Vertical Urbanism

The Role of the Formation of Conceptual Structures in the Advancement of the Architectural Discipline

1.2 Vertical Urbanism as a Foundational Concept of Future Urbanism

1.3 Visionary Urbanism in Early Visions of the City of the Future

1.4 Le Corbusier and Streets in the Sky as a Generative Concept in Multistory Urban Housing Blocks

1.5 The Revival of Streets in the Sky

1.6 The Failure of Streets in the Sky and the Disappearance of the 3-D City

PART II: Prototypes of the Tower Cluster Typology

2.1 What is a Tower Cluster? What Isn't a Tower Cluster?

2.2 The Emergence of the Tower Cluster

2.3 Typological Innovation and the Creation of a Prototype

2.4 The Destruction and Reconstruction of the World Trade Center

2.5. The Crystallization of the Morphology of the Tower Cluster

2.6 Typological Anomalies

2.7 The Crystallization of the Tower Cluster: Summary

2.8 The Crystallization of the Tower Cluster: Conclusions

PART III: The Tower Cluster as a Flexible Mixed-Use High-Density Urban Building Typology

3.1 A Conceptual Definition of the Typology

3.2 Contributions to the Definition of the Typology

3.3 A Logic of Structural Organization: Numerical Subtypes

3.4 Design Intelligence of the Tower Cluster

PART IV: Classes and Forms of Urban Amenities in Tower Clusters

4.3 The Uniqueness of Urban Amenities in the Tower Cluster

4.2 Amenities Structures as the Organizing Elements of the Tower Cluster

4.3 Clustered Amenities: Sky Plazas, Sky Malls, Sky Spas

4.4 Connective Amenities: Skybridges, Skywalks, Skyways

4.5 Sky Gardens

4.6 Sky Pools

4.7 The Observation Deck

4.8 Conclusions: The Significance and Design Potential of Sky Amenities

PART V: The Amenities Revolution and the Emergence of the Vertical Campus

5.1 Introduction: Now Amenities in the Vertical Campus

5.2 Residential Amenities in Tower Clusters

5.3 Hotel Amenities in Tower Clusters

5.4 Offices and High-Tech Office Headquarters Amenities in Tower Clusters

5.5 Emerging Amenities Structures in Tower Clusters

PART VI: From Collective Form to Connective Form

6.1 Collective Form

6.2 From Collective Form to Connective Form: Berlin Hauptstadt-Alison and Peter Smithson with Peter Sigmond-Wonke

6.3 The Networked City of Connective Urbanism

PART VII: On Socializing the Sky

7.1 The Tower Cluster and the Networked City

7.2 The Syntax of Amenities in Tower Clusters: The Vertical Campus

7.3 The New Architecture of Amenities Structures

7.4 Socializing the Sky

7.5 The Unification of the Tower Cluster

POSTSCRIPT: On Typological Evolution and the Creative Role of Typological Knowledge.

Notes:

Place of publication from publisher's website.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 226-236) and index.

ISBN:

9781957183954

1957183950

OCLC:

1444146257