Winners 2010 Skyscraper Competition
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eVolo Magazine is pleased to announce the winners of the 2010 Skyscraper Competition. Established
in 2006, the annual Skyscraper Competition recognizes outstanding ideas that redefine skyscraper
design through the use of new technologies, materials, programs, aesthetics, and spatial organization.
The award seeks to discover young talents whose ideas will change the way we understand
architecture and its relationship with the natural and built environments.
The Jury of the 2010 edition was formed by leaders of the architecture and design fields including:
Mario Cipresso, Kyu Ho Chun, Kenta Fukunishi, Elie Gamburg, Mitchell Joachim, JaeYoung
Lee, Adelaïde Marchi, Nicola Marchi and Eric Vergne. The Jury selected 3 winners and 27
special mentions among 430 entries from 42 countries.
Globalization, sustainability, flexibility, adaptability, and the digital revolution, were some of the
multi-layered elements taken into consideration. The first place was awarded to a project for a
vertical prison designed by architecture students Chow Khoon Toong, Ong Tien Yee, and Beh Ssi
Cze, from Malaysia. Their project examines the possibility of creating a prison-city in the sky, where
the inmates would live in a  free and productive community with agricultural fields and factories
that would support the host city below.
The recipients of the second place are Rezza Rahdian, Erwin Setiawan, Ayu Diah Shanti, and
Leonardus Chrisnantyo, from Indonesia, whose project  Ciliwung Recovery Program aims to
purify and repair the Ciliwung River habitat. The building is designed as an ingenious habitable
machine that would collect garbage, purify water, and provide housing to thousands of people that
live in the slums along the river.
The third place was awarded to Ryohei Koike and Jarod Poenisch, from the United States, for
their project  Nested Skyscraper that explores robotic construction techniques for a novel structure
of carbon sleeves and fiber-laced concrete. The building is a system of multiple layers of composite
louvers which thicken and rotate according to solar exposure, ventilation, and materials performance.
Among the special mentions there are skyscrapers used as bridges that link different territories, cities
in the sky powered by renewable energies, instant deployable buildings for disaster zones,
skyscrapers that purify and desalinate sea water, or high-rises that commemorate historic dates. Other
proposals create new pedestrian layers for existing cities. Some use the latest building technologies
and parametric design to configure environmentally conscious self-sufficient buildings, while others
create city-like buildings where different programs are mixed in one structure.
eVolo Magazine would like to acknowledge all the competitors for their effort, vision, and passion
for architectural innovation.
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Vertical Prison
First Place
Chow Khoon Toong, Ong Tien Yee,
Beh Ssi Cze
Malaysia
Some studies reveal that post-release
offenses are very high and that criminal s
imprisonment is just a temporal solution
because they do not have the opportunity
to rehabilitate in a desirable community.
This project examines the possibility of creating a vertical prison in the sky where inmates will have
to work and live in a community that will contribute to the host city below. The prison will have
agricultural fields, factories, and recyclable plants that will be operated by the offenders as a way to
give back to the community. They will live  free until they have completed their sentence and are
prepared to rejoin their communities.
The vertical prison has its own transportation system which consists of different  pods for officers,
prisoners, firefighters, and other workers. Read the rest of this entry
Water Purification Skyscraper in Jakarta
Second Place
Rezza Rahdian, Erwin Setiawan,
Ayu Diah Shanti, Leonardus
Chrisnantyo
Indonesia
The city of Jakarta, Indonesia, was
originally designed in the confluence
of thirteen rivers which were used for
transportation and agriculture. The
largest of its rivers is The Ciliwung
River, which has been extremely
polluted during the last couple of
decades, characterizes by hundreds of
slums inhabited by thousands of
people in marginal conditions.
The Ciliwung Recovery Program (CRP) is a project that aims to collect the garbage of the
riverbank and purify its water through an ingenious system of mega-filters that operate in three
different phases. The first one separates the different types of garbage and utilizes the organic one to
fertilize its soil. The second phase purifies the water by removing dangerous chemicals and adding
important minerals to it. The clean water is then fed to the river and to the nearby agricultural fields
through a system of capillary tubes. Finally in the third phase all the recyclable waste is processed.
One of the most important aspects of this proposal is the elimination of the slums along the river. The
majority of the people will live and work at the CRP which could be understood as new city within
Jakarta. The CRP project will be a 100 percent sustainable building that will produce energy through
wind, solar, and hydroelectric systems. Read the rest of this entry
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Nested Skyscraper in Tokyo
Third Place
Ryohei Koike, Jarod Poenisch
United States
The Nested Skyscraper adapts to
climatic, urban, and programmatic
conditions with the use of advanced
materials and robotic construction. Its
form and building method derive from
the carbon sleeves and fiber-laced
concrete performance. It is a
composition of multiple layers of
louvers which thicken and rotate according to solar and wind exposure.
The construction method consists of a series of robots that stretch a network of carbon sleeves that
are sprayed with fiber-laced concrete to create a primary structure. A second set of robots wraps the
structure with a steel mesh for lateral movements and increase or decrease its density according to
structural and programmatic needs. The resulting structure of  nests is a hybrid of compressive and
tensile elements that frees the skyscraper typology from the rigid multiplication of floor plates.
This prototype was designed as a fashion boutique for Tokyo; a city of extreme climate, density, and
earthquakes. It explores the use of advanced materials and robotic construction to re-imagine the
skyscraper. Read the rest of this entry
Hermit Mountains  Towers of Ancient Dreams
Special Mention
Hongjun Zhou, Lu Xiong
Australia / China / Japan
Some of the inspirations for this project are
the classical Chinese landscape paintings of
the Lijiang River, the natural environment,
and the culture and traditions of the local
ethnic groups. The main idea is to create
sustainable towers for people seeking solitude
and meditation. Among the different programs
there are agricultural fields, terraces for
meditation, housing, and recreational parks.
The towers are carefully designed to be integrated to the landscape and to provide a proper place to
live and work for the different groups along the Lijiang River. It was designed with the use of three
dimensional voronoi patterns that follow the configuration logic of the immediate landscape. Read
the rest of this entry
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Sky Table  A Social Implant
Special Mention
Ayrat Khusnutdinov
Russia
The Sky Table is a large horizontal
building suspended above six blocks of
an abandoned neighborhood of a generic
city. Its primary structure is a steel mesh
that peels into four colossal columns that
connect to plazas and parks at street
level. Due to its large scale and the
variety of programs this proposal could
be considered a city within a city where offices are located inside the pillars, housing is available in
ten levels within the platform and recreational areas cover the entire roof level.
Many green technologies are integrated; a recycle plant and gas tank is located underground below
the main columns. Solar panels are located on the roof level along with wind turbines which are also
used below the steel mesh where the aerodynamic shape of the building will direct fast air currents.
Read the rest of this entry
Strait of Messina Skyscraper
Special Mention
Maurizio Pino, Filomena Francesca
Pastore
Italy
One of the most discussed topics in
Italian politics is the construction of a
bridge over the Strait of Messina which
will link Sicily to the main land. The
shorter distance between the cities of
Messina and Reggio Calabria is 3,150
meters and the average sea depth is
between 80 and 120 meters. In 1968 the Italian Road and Motorway Network held a competition to
design this bridge and the winning project  Future Metropolis of the Strait by Alberto and Giuseppe
Samoná considered both areas a single entity and proposed one city on both shores.
The main idea of our project is to further develop their concept and design this bridge as a skyscraper
and a place to live. The building is configured as a modular three-dimensional grid that rises from a
hollow platform below the sea level. The volumes are articulated according to different functions
such as residences, public spaces, and cultural and entertainment areas. Read the rest of this entry
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Vertical Confluence  Skyscraper in Paris
Special Mention
Jiang Yuan, Xu Yang
France
Vertical Confluence is a
contemporary skyscraper that
integrates to Paris s historical
urban fabric. The volume morphs
according to its program and
relationship with the existing
urban spaces and landscape. The
lower volume contains an
auditorium and an open-air theatre facing the Seine River. In the middle there is a public library with
views toward Paris s biggest green space known as  The Bois de Vincennes . In the upper levels,
facing the city s skyline, there is a museum, a restaurant, and a café. Read the rest of this entry
Generic Box Skyscraper
Special Mention
Dae-ho Lee, Byung-hwa Kim
South Korea
Cities like Dubai and Seoul are
developing hundreds of
extravagant skyscrapers as way to
express their economic prosperity
and geopolitical power.
Architecture has been transformed
into a marketing tool for
individuals, corporations, and
countries in which, unfortunately,
there is a lack of responsibility
towards the existing urban fabric and the environment.
This proposal departs from formalism and focuses on the interaction between programs and the
transformation of the building volume according to its relationship with the inhabitants, the city, and
the landscape. The structure consists of three main building blocks for housing, offices, and gardens.
There is a set of rules to plug each block and optimize the space while creating a novel program
distribution. The result is a porous tower with gardens and terraces distributed throughout the entire
building. An environmentaly responsible cladding is equipped with photovoltaic panels and manual
windows.
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Rain Collector Skyscraper
Special Mention
2010 Skyscraper Competition
Ryszard Rychlicki, Agnieszka
Nowak
Poland
Capture the Rain Skyscraper is a
building whose roof and external
shell ,which consists systems of
gutters, are aimed at capturing as much rainfall as possible to meet the daily needs of its inhabitants.
Average daily consumption of water per person is 150 liters, out of which 85 liters may be replaced
by rain water. Within the last thirty years water consumption has significantly increased. There are
lots of factors that contribute to such an increase such as increasing number washing machines and
dish washers, increasing popularity of garden showering devices and flushing toilets. A third of water
being used in households in western countries is flushed in toilets.
Since 1900 the total water consumption in the US has increased by 1000%. At present, an average
American uses five times more water that a citizen of developing countries. Such an increase is
related to among others improved living standards. On the other hand, a national hobby of the Danes
is collecting rain water for washing and watering plants. Within the last ten years average use of pure
water in Denmark dropped by 40% and inhabitants of the so called eco-villages use a third part of the
national average. In view of these data, we decided to design a tower, whose structure will allow for
capturing and processing as much rainfall as possible to provide with water for its inhabitants.
For millennia plants have been developing systems of capturing and processing rainfall. Such
systems helped them to deal with water deficits or surpluses. Similarly, we wanted to copy their
simple mechanisms of rainfall capturing and processing. Initially, in designing the tower, we focused
at shaping and modeling the surface of the roof to capture as much rainfall as possible. Under a roof s
surface, there are water reservoirs in the form of a large funnel and reed fields, which serve as a
hydro botanic water treatment unit. The unit processes water into usable water that is further
transmitted to apartments. A network of gutters on the external surfaces of the building is designed
to capture rainfall flowing down the building. Such flowing rainfall is transmitted to floors and its
surplus is stored in a reservoir under the building. Water captured and processed by the building may
be used for flushing toilets, feeding washing machines, watering plants, cleaning floors and other
domestic applications. Having analyzed rainfall in several large cities in developed countries, we
obtained a formula that shows what percentage of daily pure water consumption may be replaced
with rainfall thanks to the technology applied in our building.
Structural Cell Skyscraper
Special Mention
2010 Skyscraper Competition
Hong Wong, SheungHok Lim
United Kingdom
In 2008, for the first time in history, more than
half of the world s population is living in cities
than rural areas, that s 6.6 billion of us. By 2050,
this figure is expected to surge up to 9 billion. This
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had led to rapid urbanization in cities all over the world over the past several decades. However the
form and spatial organization of skyscrapers (or vertical-strategy) have been majorly dominated by
the structural and cost efficient of extrusion of floor plates and the definition of space by planes- floor
plates, walls and ceilings.
This striated spatial definition and its arrangements had forfeited the future adaptability of skyscraper
space for ever-changing needs and users group.
In this project, we are exploring the opportunities that individual space be composed from a unique
cell-structural system, where like a cell could be split, replicated and combined  to form different
spatial opportunities. Having to support this transforming space, an ever-evolving vertical
transportation system has to be explored. Similar to any metro-system in cities around the globe, it
can always be extended and re-routed, regions and zones are defined dedicating to specific functions
(e.g. office/ retail) and inducing population cluster and growth.
In the dated horizontal urban planning (abundant in Asian cities), the striated and smooth elements
often occur concurrently. The zoning for individual working, recreations and public entities are
regarded as the striated. The smooth is the exact volume and organization of space for living and
working entities that accommodate for ever-changing group/family size through time. As they are
lease to different users through time and having to cope with the ever-evolving different needs, living
and working components. Read the rest of this entry
Water-Scraper: Underwater Architecture
Special Mention
2010 Skyscraper Competition
Sarly Adre Bin Sarkum
Malaysia
Throughout history, through his need for
civilization, man has created buildings that
consume resources. The skyscraper is the epitome
of this voracious consumption, its highly dense
grouping of activities ie work, play, rest etc has become an ominous harbingers of our ecologically
bleak future. As a reaction to the modern skyscrapers and its dilemmas the world s eminent minds
have created many variations of the skyscraper in the form of the antithetical subscrapers,
groundscrapers and even depth scraper. Yet still they still struggle to achieve zero input/zero output
in terms of resource production. There are greenscrappers which , though themselves are ecologically
sound, are tied to and urban fabric and interconnection of production networks which are still
contributing negatively towards the environment. Read the rest of this entry
Freshwater Factory Skyscraper
Special Mention
2010 Skyscraper Competition
Design Crew for Architecture
Nicolas Chausson, Gaël Desveaux, Jiao Yang
Huang, Thomas Jullien
France
Skyscrapers are urban icons. In collective imagination,
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 skyscraper means  city because it is a solution that was invented to meet density issues in big
cities. As we were looking for the redefinition of the term  skyscraper through the use of new
programs, we decided to look for somewhere else to implement a skyscraper. Obviously, it has to be
the countryside. The main question we had to answer then was: why would we build a skyscraper in
the countryside? What issue could justify the need to build skyscrapers in the countryside?
As you might know, although water is very present on earth, 97% is salted and 2% is blocked as ice.
Actually, there is only about 1% left of liquid freshwater and the UNO and the World Water Council
estimate there might be a crisis affecting half the worldwide population by 2030. Freshwater will be a
major stake in the 21st century. Indeed the production of a daily food intake for a human being
requires 3000 liters of freshwater and the annual rate of freshwater needs is 64 billions cubic meters.
Farming makes up 70% of the worldwide freshwater consumption. Our proposal is a totally new
building: an unseen response to sustainable development and the up coming stakes. Read the rest of
this entry
Natwalk 2.0: Walking Skyscraper
Special Mention
2010 Skyscraper Competition
Anton Markus Pasing
Germany
Preface
 The sky switches on daylight for us  or the
shower. We are small gods, mere gods of the
machine which is our highest. Our universe is a huge motor, and yet we are dying of boredom. In the
midst of fullness, there is an insidious dragon gnawing at our hearts.  D.H. Lawrence
About
The basic idea of Natwalk 2.0 is based on the assumption that as highly developed descendents of our
species, machines will more readily understand the significance of an ecological renewal than we
human beings. Moreover, they act with an ethical and social conscience. The origin of the machines
is knowingly left in the dark. Read the rest of this entry
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