An exhibition of the results of work carried out in the Academy for Architectural Culture (acc), at Campus Rainvilleterrasse from 9 to 29 March 2018

Address: Rainvilleterrasse 4, 22765 Hamburg
Opening hours: Monday to Friday, 10.00 to 16.00 o’clock

The Utopia of the vertical city has forever kept planners and utopians under its spell. From the Tower of Babel to the production designs of “Blade Runner” this vision is recurrently conjured up.

The adaption of these ideas for solving the existing challenge of increasing concentration on large cities and the resulting global megacities has produced a pronounced high-rise boom worldwide. These high-rises, in parts emblematic, offer maximum living space on a minimum footprint. Newly developed concepts for multifunctional high-rises attempt to reach urban qualities to maximise the amenity value and quality of life for its users and residents. Unresolved, however, are issues of vertical densification, which do not loose urban values and neighbourliness as they are found in traditional urban residential quarters with their heterogeneous variety of functions and uses.

The workshop focused on the design of a hybrid high-rise for the Chinese metropolis Shenzhen, one of the fastest growing cities in the world, which as a three-dimensional urban structure shall translate urban qualities into the vertical, by means of a functional mix of public and private functions, of open and closed spaces as well as urban and green elements.

Photos: jochen stüber objektfotografie