Stairscraper / Nabito

Dec 2010

By Alison Furuto — Filed under: Events ,Housing , Nabito, New York, United States

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Nabito shared with us their latest project for mixed uses, The Stairscraper, a horizontal skyscraper, designed to be in New York, which won the Total Housing Competition. It is currently on exhibit until the 22nd of January at the Store Front for Art and Architecture in New York City. More images and architect’s description after the break.

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Contemporary housing is spreading into the more complex and (broad) concept of HABITAT.This housing project is impossible today without thinking of something much more complex, but simply the solution to meet a social need and right. In housing today, the motto “TOTAL HOUSING” seems justified. It represents the idea of understanding a wider habitat, a system of complex social relationships with the environment in search of enjoyment of life, mixing different ambits and different uses.

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A habitat sensible to the singularities , designed for cultural exchange, uses, programs and activities in relation with work, communication and leisure. These human attitudes could not be more separate.The time of urban planning related to the division of time and space in 8h 8h 8h (hours for a tot m2 per person; time for work tot m2 per person, time for leisure tot m2 per person, time for the rest tot m2 per person) through which have been conceived modern cities with their standards, has given way during the last 15 years, to the possibility of a match to the activities between residential, recreational, educational, productive ,carried out in a 24-time continuum in which it is difficult to differentiate spaces for their activities.

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It’s easy to say that in relation to the contemporary change in the space-time conditions, there is also a change in the structure of society and the peculiarity of mobility in an urban environment, a social space, which is more and more defined by cultural diversity and a multiplicity of attitudes and activities.

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The work space becomes, for example, an open space to many other possibilities and activated in a productive and at the same time ludic time not necessarily restricted in a specific area (space-time) of the day. So the investigation of a “TOTAL HOUSING” can not be reduced to the study of some typologies of different and flexible as it can be, but rather should be extended to the environment of complicity with the urban complexity and complicity. Interior and exterior, intimate and social space, landscape and architecture, the habitat cellula and “his” sensitive relationship with the natural and urban environment at the same time.

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Questioning the relationship between quality and quantity is the essence of this radical research. The Stairscraper is a real provocation on the possibility of extending the housing to a Total Habitat sensitive to individual needs in a collective whole. So the passage from the private cottages (no spaces social bookmarking) to social cottages, maintaining individual and intimate space is evident.

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The Stairscraper is a superposition of individual singular garden houses with the same characteristic of the horizontal sprawl, but liberating the land and concentrating the uses and the energy. It is a social collective of individualities. The stairscraper is a complex 360 degree design that incorporates all kinds of common facilities and public spaces at different levels maintaining the intimacy of the individual space with the same quality.

Architects: Nabito
Location: New York, USA
Assigned Typology: Private
Client: Confidential
Assigned Task: Project design, site supervision, and security at design and execution
Budget: Confidential
Project phase: on going
Collaborators: Teo Valli, Agita Putnina, Isidora Stecki, Sandra Stefanovic, Furio Sordini.

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Miesosoup says:

I think the general consensus from comments about this project will follow like this:

interesting yet problems with this and that and that and this.
AND too utopian AND to bjarke ingels-esque
p.s.

in the 3 apartments per floor situation: you have to leave the core and walk through people’s yards to get to your front door?!

# December 28, 2010 at 17:03

Adam says:

It is hard to cut through the verbose project description. I think that the goals of this project are to recreate the complexity of the urban environment by mixing public and private spaces, while retaining the intimacy of suburban or rural settings.
I’m having a pretty hard time locating “all kinds of common facilities and public spaces”. Each unit appears to be allocated a section of the outdoor terrace. I don’t see how this promotes interaction, community or complexity. The units are rather private.
There also seems to be some things that are suggested by the plan that are either strange, underdeveloped or problematic. For example, are you outside when you get off the elevator? You have to circulate through the exterior terrace to get to the unit?
“Radical research”? at best a partially developed concept.

# December 28, 2010 at 17:28

Jakov says:

do we really need this? is this a breakthrough?

# December 28, 2010 at 18:49

isla says:

wow jakov, such a constructive comment, why don´t you better keep your mouth shut for that kind of opinions.

# December 28, 2010 at 21:31

Drew says:

Who are you to attack jakov for his opinion? especially when he’s got a point. this building would stick out like a soar thumb. on top of that, its boring and tacky and there’s nothing special about it apart from being really tall which isn’t anything particular these days. And from a functionality point of view, and I’m not advocating for a glass box, there’s so much unused space in the negative space thats created by the spiral. so not only would actual construction cost fortune just for the basic structure work. Simply put, I think this building really lacks any sort of elegance that a form like a spiral can have. So I’m with jakov, do we really need this?… no

# December 29, 2010 at 02:36

Quelava says:

Yeah, we should all keep our mouths shut and click “like”…come on, this is an epic fail.
the floor plans are a disaster, the solar orientation is totally ignored, the text is heavy BS-ing written so no one could get what the idea was, because the idea is nothing but a formal play. These things are possible and welcome on the first year of studies, but as a serious project that someone would actually build…I am really amazed that there is a client for this. I agree with Adam – a partially developed concept. Poorly developed, if I might add.

# December 29, 2010 at 03:19

Mk says:

who is we?

# December 29, 2010 at 04:24

I and I :-)

# December 29, 2010 at 04:27

enrico says:

I think it is formal. And deeply tehoretical. In real life it’s not so easy to join together residential and productive activities. For them “productive” probably means someone working with a computer into a room, that’s it.
I do not thing that such an idea is going to work in practical terms.

# December 29, 2010 at 04:54

mvb says:

Actually, the idea is very convenient for King Kong.

# December 29, 2010 at 04:57

fooosco says:

funniest comment ever on archdaily :)

# December 29, 2010 at 11:51

observer says:

just for the sake of been obnoxious, but the title “stairscraper” does not make any sense, does the building scrape the… “stair”?

Enjoy.

# December 29, 2010 at 10:31

Holcim Awards US says:

It is definitely not practical, but as an experiment it is alright. The outdoor yards would be a great addition to city life. It would perhaps be interesting to connect each yard with stairs to the one below so you could climb the whole tower from garden to garden. This would enhance the connectivity and community aspects.

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# December 29, 2010 at 15:59

colo says:

I would like to see them grow trees on those thin slabs…

# December 30, 2010 at 11:38

ras says:

Horizontal skyscraper? I think not.

# December 31, 2010 at 13:51

grass roof says:

Mmm,
The Spring Summer Winter Autumn visual amuses me the most.
Firstly, If I had kids and they were anything like me when I was five they would not be allowed ANYWHERE near that nice thin glass balcony – it looks very climbable.
Also, trees? Really? Colo makes a good point.

# January 4, 2011 at 05:31

Ujnumara says:

Should have been called the “skystairs”

# February 17, 2011 at 09:52

this says:

This is statement from Architect – We have to do something original with cool idea and strong name. For me this is another example that architecture of our times going nowhere. It’s not just formal project, it’s something unnecessary.

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