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Socializing the sky : the typology of tower clusters /

The book presents the remarkable history of the emergence in the past two decades of a dramatically new design of multi-tower and multi-functional tall building clusters. Based upon a decade of architectural research, the book provides a definition of the new typology, here termed The Tower Cluster,...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Oxman, Robert (Author)
Other Authors: Anderson, Jake (Managing editor) (project manager.)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: [Novato, California] : ORO Editions, [2024].
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Tall buildings > Design and construction > History > 21st century.
Towers > Design and construction > History > 21st century.
Table of Contents:
  • PREFACE: Vertical Urbanism and Early Visions of the Tower Cluster and the Connected City
  • PART I: Introduction to the History and Sources of Vertical Urbanism
  • The Role of the Formation of Conceptual Structures in the Advancement of the Architectural Discipline
  • 1.2 Vertical Urbanism as a Foundational Concept of Future Urbanism
  • 1.3 Visionary Urbanism in Early Visions of the City of the Future
  • 1.4 Le Corbusier and Streets in the Sky as a Generative Concept in Multistory Urban Housing Blocks
  • 1.5 The Revival of Streets in the Sky
  • 1.6 The Failure of Streets in the Sky and the Disappearance of the 3-D City
  • PART II: Prototypes of the Tower Cluster Typology
  • 2.1 What is a Tower Cluster? What Isn't a Tower Cluster?
  • 2.2 The Emergence of the Tower Cluster
  • 2.3 Typological Innovation and the Creation of a Prototype
  • 2.4 The Destruction and Reconstruction of the World Trade Center
  • 2.5. The Crystallization of the Morphology of the Tower Cluster
  • 2.6 Typological Anomalies
  • 2.7 The Crystallization of the Tower Cluster: Summary
  • 2.8 The Crystallization of the Tower Cluster: Conclusions
  • PART III: The Tower Cluster as a Flexible Mixed-Use High-Density Urban Building Typology
  • 3.1 A Conceptual Definition of the Typology
  • 3.2 Contributions to the Definition of the Typology
  • 3.3 A Logic of Structural Organization: Numerical Subtypes
  • 3.4 Design Intelligence of the Tower Cluster
  • PART IV: Classes and Forms of Urban Amenities in Tower Clusters
  • 4.3 The Uniqueness of Urban Amenities in the Tower Cluster
  • 4.2 Amenities Structures as the Organizing Elements of the Tower Cluster
  • 4.3 Clustered Amenities: Sky Plazas, Sky Malls, Sky Spas
  • 4.4 Connective Amenities: Skybridges, Skywalks, Skyways
  • 4.5 Sky Gardens
  • 4.6 Sky Pools
  • 4.7 The Observation Deck
  • 4.8 Conclusions: The Significance and Design Potential of Sky Amenities
  • PART V: The Amenities Revolution and the Emergence of the Vertical Campus
  • 5.1 Introduction: Now Amenities in the Vertical Campus
  • 5.2 Residential Amenities in Tower Clusters
  • 5.3 Hotel Amenities in Tower Clusters
  • 5.4 Offices and High-Tech Office Headquarters Amenities in Tower Clusters
  • 5.5 Emerging Amenities Structures in Tower Clusters
  • PART VI: From Collective Form to Connective Form
  • 6.1 Collective Form
  • 6.2 From Collective Form to Connective Form: Berlin Hauptstadt-Alison and Peter Smithson with Peter Sigmond-Wonke
  • 6.3 The Networked City of Connective Urbanism
  • PART VII: On Socializing the Sky
  • 7.1 The Tower Cluster and the Networked City
  • 7.2 The Syntax of Amenities in Tower Clusters: The Vertical Campus
  • 7.3 The New Architecture of Amenities Structures
  • 7.4 Socializing the Sky
  • 7.5 The Unification of the Tower Cluster
  • POSTSCRIPT: On Typological Evolution and the Creative Role of Typological Knowledge.