建筑师:BIG建筑事务所
地点:美国,亚利桑那州,凤凰城
建筑师负责人:Bjarke Ingels和Thomas Christoffersen
项目负责人:Iannis Kandyliaris
项目团队:Thomas Fagan, Aaron Hales, Ola Hariri, Dennis Harvey, Beat Schenk
合作伙伴:MKA(结构),Atelier10(可持续性),Gensler(当地建筑师),TenEyck(风景)
承包商:Novawest公司
面积:70000平方英尺
年份:2012
摄影:图片由BIG建筑事务所提供
该70,000平方英尺的观测塔位于凤凰城市中心,将为凤凰城的天际线添加一个显著的建筑,从该观测塔上可以尽享城市周围的山脉美景和壮丽的日落景观。
Novawest公司以凤凰城为基础开发,委托该团队设计一个观赏地,为凤凰城的游客和市民提供机会尽赏太阳谷的独特风光。
“这对于凤凰城市中心来说正是合适的地点和合适的时间来建造一座标志性项目,并且我们知道我们需要的是非同寻常的设计。
BIG建筑事务所已为我们交付了独特的答卷,其形式和功能结合将永远改变当地的天际线,并为游客提供了千载难逢的人生体验。”Novawest公司的Brian Stowell说。
未来的观测塔可看作一个顶部带有开放式螺旋球体的钢筋混凝土的高大芯体,就像地图上一个标志着地理位置的大头钉。其不断上升的球体包括灵活的展览厅、零售商店和娱乐空间,这些可以通过三个联通地下室和楼顶的玻璃电梯到达,并在游客上升或下降时提供城市和塔的全景。
通过连续的螺旋形长廊从顶部向下走,来观测塔的游客可以在不断运动的过程中体验该建筑的所有项目,同时可动态享受凤凰城和Arizonian景观360度的全景。
“像Arizonian周围景观的季风、哈布沙暴和山峦一样,该大头钉型的建筑通过观赏者的运动,成为景观运动过程中的一个参考点和机制。像纽约的古根海姆博物馆,围绕其中心的空建筑下楼时使游客获得了独特的艺术体验一样,在观测塔从建筑内部到外部的运动,可以让游客凝视凤凰城和凤凰城周围的景观。像天国的天使盘旋在城市的上空一样,该建筑可以让游客从球形的建筑体的一端下楼到另一端,获得一种似乎悬浮在半空中的动态三维体验。”BIG建筑事务所创始合伙人Bjarke Ingels称。
该建筑的螺旋布局结合了不同的规划元素和旋转方式,形成了一个连续的动态旋转的空间,它与游客的运动成比例,使游客获得独特的视觉体验。不同于固定宽度的构造,其入口处开始于零,不断螺旋上升,在中间达到其最大宽度,然后又逐渐收缩并最终结束于零。
其球体内部的规划元素的分离不是通过物理的垂直间隔墙,而是轻轻穿过坡度和高度差,从而保持总体的连续性并创建一个灵活的展览和活动空间。
一旦游客到达球体的中间,他们就可以选择结束他们的旅程乘电梯回到地面,或继续参观到下半球的餐厅。这一参观运动就像是一段通过一个行星中心的旅行,又像是从北极到南极的旅游。
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Architects: BIG
Location: Phoenix, AZ, USA
Architects In Charge: Bjarke Ingels and Thomas Christoffersen
Project Leader: Iannis Kandyliaris
Project Team: Thomas Fagan, Aaron Hales, Ola Hariri, Dennis Harvey, Beat Schenk
Collaborators: MKA (structure), Atelier10 (sustainability), Gensler (local architect), TenEyck (landscape)
Client: Novawest
Area: 70,000 ft2
Year: 2012
Photographs: Courtesy of BIG
Located in downtown Phoenix, the 70,000 sf Observation Tower shall add a significant structure to the Phoenix skyline from which to enjoy the city’s spectacular views of the surrounding mountain ranges and dramatic sunsets.Phoenix-based developer Novawest, commissioned the team to create a destination event to provide tourists and citizens of Phoenix alike the chance to enjoy the unique features of the Valley of the Sun.
“This is the right place and the right time for a signature project for downtown Phoenix and we knew the design needed to be something extraordinary. BIG has delivered something exceptional, blending form and function in a way that will change the local skyline forever and will give visitors a once-in-a-lifetime experience.” Brian Stowell, Novawest.
The future observation tower is conceived as a tall core of reinforced concrete with an open-air spiral sphere at its top, resembling a metaphorical pin firmly marking a location on a map. The spiraling sphere contains flexible exhibition, retail and recreational spaces which are accessed via three glass elevators that connect the base with the summit and offer panoramic views of the city and the tower’s programs as visitors ascend or descend.
Walking downwards from the top through a continuous spiral promenade, the visitors of the observation tower experience all of the building’s programs in a constant motion, while enjoying dynamic 360 degree views of the city of Phoenix and the Arizonian landscape.
“Like the monsoons, the haboobs and the mountains of the surrounding Arizonian landscape, the Pin becomes a point of reference and a mechanism to set the landscape in motion through the movement of the spectator. Like the Guggenheim museum of New York offers visitors a unique art experience descending around its central void, the motion at the Pin is turned inside-out allowing visitors to contemplate the surrounding city and landscape of Phoenix. Like a heavenly body hovering above the city the Pin will allow visitors to descend from pole to pole in a dynamic three dimensional experience seemingly suspended in midair.“ Bjarke Ingels, Founding Partner, BIG.
The spiral layout combines the different programmatic elements and the circulation into a continuous dynamic twirling space which is proportioned according to the movement of the visitors, producing a unique viewing experience of the surroundings. Instead of a constant width, the spiraling promenade starts from zero at the point of arrival, reaches its maximum width at the middle, and shrinks back to zero at the point of departure.
Separation between the programmatic elements within the sphere happens not through physical vertical barrier-walls, but softly through the slope and the height difference to preserve a total continuity and create a flexible space for exhibitions and events. |
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