V Towers is fruit of an iconographic will and of the strict functional and urban planning specifications required for the project. The size of the requested development and a meticulous study of the functional program seemed to indicate a need for two apartment and office towers over a commercial podium. Our project tries to distort this predictable layout in keeping with the other new buildings of the development, and proposes a dynamic building where the two towers, instead of being set over a podium, emerge from a common knot on the base and lose weight while growing up. The result is a building with two arms raised in a V.
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Description: | VTowers. 40-storey building | |
Status: | design development | |
Client: | HIFC Hangzhou International Financial Center | |
Situation: | HANGZHOU | |
Area: | 131.404M2 | |
Budget: | 60.000.000€ |
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Company: | EQUIPXCL + ADA BARCELONA ARCHITECTURE |
Authors: | Xavier Claramunt, Yago Haro |
Collaborators: | José Ahedo, Maria Solé, Miquel de Mas, Joan Cuevas, Oriol Bordes, Hilda Compte, Adam Mendoza, Anke Schaumburg, Horacio Arias, Cristina MartÃnez, Anna Ramos |
Model: | EQUIP 3D |
Photographer: | Adrià Goula |
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Publications: | |
2009 Magazine. IDL #47. Spain |