Mixed use towers competition - Chongqing
Milano, Italy; Chonqing China 2012
Design team: VMCF atelier, Arch. Valerio Ferrari, Arch. Angelo Marelli, Dott. Riccardo Roberto, Arch. Junhua Zhou
Since the Beibin Lou site faces onto one of Chongqing’s two rivers, the new buildings are likely to become city landmarks. Two towers of 100m and 200m in height situated just behind the city government offices. High density in a small space. We cut the buildings into “slices” and then put them back together again to avoid the “mass” effect. Our idea was that by adding one slice to another, we could offer good views, sunlight and fresh air to everybody. Piecing the various sections together conjured up the idea of a robot, whose shape is typically studied to be as close as possible to function. In Beibin lou, we followed the same principle, all the time bearing in mind that Chongqing is the world capital of robotics.
