Dreams are series of images, thoughts, feelings and sensations that transpire in the mind during sleep. They are smooth stories that can suddenly become rough, violent. They are storylines that unfold, break and come one after another. Strange becomes reality and senses give way to instincts. Dreams become ideas and visions are created by imagination.
The practicality of vertical living meets the comfort of an urban townhouse in this 16-storey residential condominium rising on a 580 square meter lot in an upscale neighborhood in San Juan City, Metro Manila, Philippines. Each of the 12 luxurious residential flats is housed on its own exclusive and unique floor with a generous area of 280 square meters per unit. These combined with 2 storeys of commercial units and another storey for amenities result to a gross floor area of 6,400 square meters.
The project challenges the common residential typology, aiming for a hybrid between a single family home and an urban residence. To this end our approach responds not only to the specific zoning and programmatic criteria, but also takes as a point of departure the natural landscapes of the island, in particular El Yunque Rainforest (Forest in the Clouds). It also glances across notions of aerial gardens particularly those mythologized in the sketches of [KM] ancient Babylon.
By the turn of the Twenty-Second century, a new epoch in global survival had emerged. The human race was no longer concerned with sustainability as a trend, because it could no longer deny the fact that the world was in fact dying. The environmental catastrophes that surfaced in the Twenty-First century became increasingly frequent. Barraged with hurricanes, tornadoes, earthquakes, and tsunamis, mankind was at the brink of extinction.
This project is a morphological study that emphasizes circulating forces and an extended field of movement. It is designed by dynamically simulating self-organizing biological systems. Simultaneously, selective decision making is used to sculpt innate yet deliberate spatial relationships and formal qualities.
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