DESA1002 'Continuous City' Stephanie Brancatisano

Abstract

“Mega cities are characterized by global connectedness and local disconnectedness.” The E8 Residential Tower is a step towards combating this sense of isolation that can manifest in mega cities such as New York. The tower spirals upwards out of the ground aspiring to expose the value in living within a community. Dedicated public community spaces are distributed throughout the tower, with the intention of providing different facilities that families, professionals and retirees enjoy socialising within. There are three distinct ‘blocks’ in the tower, each with eight levels of unique residential apartments and the very open public space above. Hence this contemporary dichotomy of feeling isolated in a large city that has been evolved through globalisation is addressed in the creation of this tower.