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Affordable housing 2025 NEW YORK

Year: 2025

Category: Residential Architecture

The tower of 30 floors concerns the participation in the Affordable Housing 2025 NEW YORK design competition for the design of housing low price ; the height of the tower is approximately 106.50 m. The attack on the twin towers on September 11, 2001 and the recent earthquake of March 29, 2025 in Myanmar pose first of all safety issues for rapid evacuation in the event of fire, oscillation and subsequent collapse. The ideal solution is that of flying cars, the mechanics of the future, for this purpose each apartment should have garages for flying cars, only the design idea was provided, that is, a tower with 6-7 m span overhangs adequately anchored to the structure, capable of supporting the weight of the aircraft, overhangs embellished with pillars and flower boxes; the occupants of the apartments should take family skydiving courses with real evacuation tests in the event of an exceptional event. Safety, prevention and support of falling from heights is a current problem and concerns many metropolises in the world, not only New York City with its old and new tall buildings.

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Planimetry

The building is located in an area destined for car parking, adjacent to a sports center including 3 tennis courts, green spaces and three swimming pools that have been preserved. The building intervention requires a considerable investment, the car park was built underground by rebuilding and demolishing the buildings of the swimming center. The tower is 106.50 meters high and 30 floors high and has a shape that comes from a four-leaf clover, a rare flower to find in nature, clovers are much more frequent; they are 4 hearts with regularized corners and are an omen of good luck. The tower itself is a phallic symbol from a flower can only spring a tree a trunk, the presence of the flower boxes and the use of biophilic design best describes the natural symbolism of the tree and the arched overhangs are with the vegetation of the real nests have the meaning of reproduction and the nutrition of the maternal breast are breasts on a tree with vegetation above symbol of life; The aircraft for safety would be the birds that should have their boxes on the balconies necessary for safety which is then the fundamental function of the house: nest shell protection. The building consists of 34 floors, 4 underground intended for parking with 600 parking spaces, 30 floors above ground of which the first 5 floors are destined for commercial tertiary activities while the other 25 are for housing with approximately 600 apartments. I did not consult New York City planning regulations and stuck to the brief, as these are design ideas that may never be realized if they remain in digital format.The existing vegetation and trees have been preserved and new plants have been added to the adjacent green areas. Clearly, the height is incommensurate with the 106.50 m of the tower.

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Ground floor plan

The structure is regular and complies with the criteria of modular design, 8 modules measuring 14.50 m x 18 m have been identified, served by 2 stairwells each with 2 elevators; on the ground floor there are commercial activities such as a clothing store, a minimarket for groceries, a dance school, a space for music and a fitness gym for the presence of the swimming and tennis sports center and a hall for the exhibition and sale of cars. The commercial premises are accessed from the inside through paths of adequate width of the common spaces for interaction and socialization obtained between the modules.

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Giuseppe Mosca