Vietnam will soon have its own 333-meter skyscraper in Vietnam’s largest city, which is able to mimic the topography of the country’s natural landscape.
The constructing, called Empire City, will probably be built near the middle of Ho Chi Minh City, in a rapidly developing area on the eastern bank of the Saigon River.
Architect Ole Scheeren, who unveiled the plan, said it might consist of three towers that might rise from a mountain-shaped podium.
This podium will feature terraced gardens, designed to resemble the multi-tiered rice fields of Vietnam, while the tallest of the towers will swell at the highest to create a raised garden, or “sky forest.”
“I believed we should always think concerning the way forward for architecture and town itself and consider how nature and other people can coexist,” Scheeren told Dezeen, the world’s hottest and influential architecture and design magazine.
“But we wanted to find a way in which nature could exist not only on the ground but also high in the sky,” he said. “So we created a podium that looked like a giant terraced landscape to anchor the three towers to the ground, and then that landscape was pulled into the sky.”
“This gives the public access to the incredible height of the building and allows them to truly experience the organic forces of nature.”
At 333 meters tall, Empire City will probably be taller than any of Ho Chi Minh City’s existing skyscrapers – far exceeding the 262.5 meters of the Bitexco Financial Tower, currently town’s tallest constructing.
The fundamental 88-story tower, called Empire 88 Tower, will feature apartments and a hotel, in addition to a public commentary deck and an event space on the highest floor called Cloud Space. The podium will house shops, and two smaller towers will house offices and houses.
Scheeren sees the project as an emblem of town’s future development.
“The city’s leaders and planners are trying to find a really positive future for the city, where it doesn’t just repeat the same problems that have arisen as other cities have grown and densified – they’re trying to take into account the features and responsibilities,” he said.
“They see this project as a very strong confirmation of that.”
The architect founded his studio Buro Ole Scheeren in 2010, after a period as director at OMA. He has lived in Asia for over ten years and has worked on skyscrapers in Beijing, Bangkok, Singapore and Kuala Lumpur.
In a previous interview with Dezeen, he said he liked working in Asia since it had “a certain fearlessness and vision for the long run.”
Scheeren says there may be an incredible energy in Ho Chi Minh City and he expects it to rework over the subsequent few years.
“It really reminds me of Bangkok many years ago,” he said.
“If you have a look at how long the development work is taking, that is one in all those moments where you’ll think it was unimaginable. But I’ve lived in China long enough to know that things we never thought are possible.”
Scheeren was ranked 161st on the inaugural Dezeen Hot List.
It also recently revealed plans for its first constructing in Europe, a renovation of a Nineteen Seventies office constructing in Frankfurt, and its first constructing in North America, a skyscraper in Vancouver.
Source :Dezeen.com
