Comments on: Daekwon Park’s Superstructure for Sustainable Skyscrapers

By: mikkoroque

mikkoroque — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 10:47:00 +0000

Im making a report on Daekwon Parks’ Superstructure for Sutainable Skyscrapers and if any moderator or anyone that can be able to send me these pictures to my email would be of great help. I have tried emailing several people however no one seems to reply. Many Thanks. BTW, my email is miks232000@yahoo.com Thanks again

-mikko

By: mikko

mikko — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 08:09:59 +0000

Great idea for these eye catching tall buildings. However, i\\\’d agree with hugo regarding the design of these symbiotic interlock. Functionally, it would be of great help, however it wont look good on all buildings. Imagine how a city would look like having these symbiotic interlock ideas. It would kinda look boring seeing similar structures connected on several buildings. Its maybe because of how it looks like which made me not like this idea but being id give it two thumbs up it being environmentally helpful.

BTW, i was wondering if i could get pictures from this site. Is there by any chance someone i can talk to who would give me pictures? Thanks in advance

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By: irish

irish — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 03:46:21 +0000

I have to question if daekwon park had answered his own question of reuniting isolated city blocks, how well he answered to his own question. I will say no. I still see strong emphasis on vericality, programtically impractical, and structually non-sensical, acutally very dangerous. I will say he has the decieving ideas that seems like he had answered his own question of reuniting. He stated that today’s urban spaces are very fragmented, limited and unkind to nature, and he wanted to reunite thecity blocks, provide green space, and nodes for the city. However, what he had created is even more fragmented, even to the vertical diration. This adds another problem added to the current isolation of skyscrapers in horizontal direciton. His design has very limited access both in vertically and horizontally. He just added another problems, rather than solving what’s currently exists.
I wonder where he came up with this form. But what i see is that he came accross this form randomly, and have randomly placed green ideas. Randomly placing grass does not mean green. Also, can you guys imagin all the vibration and noise from the wind turbine ? This will certainly damage it’s own structure also the adjacent builinsg attaced by the bridge. I will say he had decieved the judges with interesting form when he himself did not answered to his questions, rather creating even more drastic problems.

By: supersoyboy

supersoyboy — Tue, 06 May 2008 23:24:58 +0000

I think its trying to make more of a statement than be practical so in that sense it would be more sustainable to not even have them around!

By: doug l

doug l — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 18:41:58 +0000

I think I prefer these fantastic structures to the skyscrapers they are attempting to connect. Perhaps they could grow organically and evolve into elevated nests where the villages similar to the arboreal societies of our past could flourish, up above the floor of the (concrete) jungle.

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By: shroomie77

shroomie77 — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 22:09:24 +0000

PL- what kinds of crimes do you speak of?

And what would make you say they’re not green?

…I would pay for that.

By: Kate Andrews

Kate Andrews — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 06:12:24 +0000

Mike – Thanks for posting this competition, it’s made happy [and inspired] reading this evening. K.

By: Mike Chino

Mike Chino — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 21:12:47 +0000

Hi Scott,
Archicool has a post outlining what the submission process was like for the 2008 contest. Since it’s a yearly competition, I’d imagine the next contest will fall along a similar timeline (October – March). We’ll be sure to post updates as the year progresses. Best of luck!

http://www.archicool.com/cgi-bin/presse/pg-newspro.cgi?id_news=3466

By: bpg131313

bpg131313 — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 19:56:07 +0000

While I\’m not sold on the vertical structures themselves, I do like the idea of sky bridges. The idea that one can get to a building a few blocks away simply by going through the bridges means a lot of time saved by not getting on an elevator, going down, walking on the sidewalks and having to stop for traffic at each intersection, and then getting on an elevator to get to the floor you needed to be on in the building. Sky bridges are a great idea and I think they deserve further study in their wider adoption throughout a city structure.

By: Scott

Scott — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 17:56:15 +0000

How do I enter into the competition? Exciting stuff!

By: organicgrid

organicgrid — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 17:30:11 +0000

By far, one of the ugliest Sustainable Skyscrapers I have ever seen. Looks like a beehive for humans.

By: PL

PL — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 15:03:42 +0000

I think this would be a disaster for our cities – both visually and socially. Hugo is right. They are parasitic and they look the part. I can’t imagine the crime that would occur on those sky bridges. And I just don’t think these are green at all. I know there are wind turbines here and there and some sky gardens but that’s doesn’t nearly come close to off-setting the resources needed to make these and the extra energy they are drawing from their hosts. And all that structure for hardly any programmable space – who would pay for that? Anyway, let’s get past the cool imagery and criticize it for what it is.

By: LivingSpaceBuilders.com

LivingSpaceBuilders.com — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 11:35:59 +0000

But hugo, as you see from the photos only beautiful people can live inside of these structures :)