High-Rise Buildings: Multiple Typologies
The high-rise buildings featured, primarily intended for office and residential use, seek aesthetic meaning, a relationship with their surroundings, flexibility, and ecological achievements through energy efficiency, ease of maintenance, the connection of interior spaces to public realms, clear structural and construction systems, adaptability to continuous change, and the use of digital technology. These projects offer diverse formal solutions that move away from, rather than toward, standard approaches like modular repetition or unifying curtain walls. Their formal expressions, scale, and materials grant them a unique presence within their environment, achieved through various strategies such as disrupting modular repetition, combining materials, utilizing prefabrication and movable components, and employing design software to ensure comfort. They also value the volume as a whole, emphasizing their planes through diverse treatments on front and side facades and highlighting entrances with transition spaces and single- or double-height volumes. Concrete remains the structural constant, while the use of glass, metal, masonry, and other traditional and contemporary finishes—including persistent uses of ceramic, concrete, metal, and plastic—serves as an aesthetic resource within the overall design approach.
