THE OPEN TOWER
Balancing unpredictability and architectural authorship, The Open Tower reframes the conventional high-rise as a heterogeneous and non-hierarchical vertical city. The project democratizes the space, allowing its occupants to control informality and programming public agoras along the entirety of the tower, generating a new ground for immigrants displaced by climate change.
Project Type: Student Work at Columbia GSAPP
Year: 2020
Team: Michelle Clara, Renee Gao, Devansh Mehta
Faculty: Phu Hoang
Project Featured on Columbia GSAPP Abstract 2021