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Borrowing the shape of the long, twisting bodies of China's iconic
dragons, "Sity" is a building concept we're still trying to wrap our
heads around. It's designed to snake through a swathe of Shanghai and
includes a man-made river and park underneath it.
While the structure looks impossible to navigate, the designers have actually put some thought into how you could live and work in this thing, too.
Sity's spiraling structure sees it intersect the ground at several
points. It's at these junctions that pedestrians can enter, and the
structure is also joined to Shanghai by a subway line, river vessels and
a grid of roads.
So, what happens once you're inside? It's a little hard to
picture, but the plans call for "internal vertical/horizontal
transport," which we take to mean elevators and walkways. The structure
is mixed-use, and would include living and work, as well as public
spaces and recreation areas. In the gallery online get a better sense of its scale: people
are tiny and stick-like and boats look like toys. According to Architizer, it's supposed to stand some 60 stories tall, which would make Sity absolutely massive.
Via Yanko Design and Architizer
