This may be a hotel, but the concept is an intriguing one that could be applied to high rise buildings of all types: a porous and verdant shell with several open-air plazas that step their way up the building to reach a green and inhabitable roof.
With the mix of red aluminum, blue waters, wood decks, and, of course, all the trees and plants, it’s a colourful and striking building. The location of the plazas switch sides as the building rises, so that the indoor parts and the outdoor parts aren’t just stacked repetitively all the way up. And while there aren’t any there now, I could easily envision some wind turbines in the crown that could generate at least some of the building’s own energy.
Nifty stuff. The Oasia Hotel by WOHA
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