They require continuous heating in winter and cooling via air conditioning systems in hotter months.
Often there is little to no form of natural ventilation within the engineering, making these behemoths constantly climate-control hungry. That’s because most 20th century skyscrapers were not designed with thermal performance in mind. They are often, at best, missing out on conservation and natural energy elements and at worst, they are vast energy consumers and waste producing vessels in their own right. The traditional style of skyscrapers comes with its own environmental baggage. From land, air and sea pollution to natural resource depletion and waste disposal challenges, pressure is mounting from governments and the wider public alike to introduce cleaner construction practices. The state of current global climate issues is forcing every industry to look to conservation and eco-friendly materials, production processes and waste management. Meet the new generation of skyscraper, moving in altogether different and very green, direction… From China’s Shangai Tower (2,013 feet) to the UAE’s famous Burj Khalifa (2,717 feet).īut does the future of the skyscraper require us to take a closer look in order to preserve and continue one of mankind’s greatest triumphs over physics? MORE ON WEATHER.In the years since the first skyscraper adorned our skylines in 1885 (Chicago’s ten-story Home Insurance Building) we’ve watched as engineering and design have taken this craft to ever increasing heights. The competition, which began in 2006, encourages its contestants to find new uses of “technology, materials, programs, aesthetics, and spatial organizations” in order to challenge the way we understand current architecture and its relationship with natural and man-made environments.
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Winners of the competition receive $5,000 for first place, $2,000 for second and $1,000 for third, plus the earned media attention, according to Student Competitions. Heat given off by the tower would also be used to warm nearby homes, according to the Data Tower’s selection page.
The Data Skyscraper would be a sustainable center, using hydropower and geothermal energy from the country's renewable energy sources to completely power the tower. The design would offer a more efficient alternative to the current data centers that consume high amounts of energy and leave a large carbon footprint.
(More: Goodyear Unveils New Concept Tires) The tower would act as a massive 3D motherboard, allowing companies to store and process the endless streams of data used daily. Third place was awarded to Italian designers Valeria Mercuri and Marco Merletti for their proposal of the Data Skyscraper in Iceland, an alternative to modern data centers. Designed by Hadeel Ayed Mohammad, Yifend Zhao and Chengdu Zhu, the drone home base would offer the delivery packages and commercial goods to the residents of the city, barring the future’s lesser drone restrictions. In second place, The Hive, a standalone vertical terminal in New York City, would be a control center for delivery drones. The park’s high perimeter would feature mirrored glass, reflecting the rest of the city’s vast architecture. Views from the 1,000-foot tall skyscraper encasing the park would have unobstructed views of the scattered mountains and lakes of the renovated landmark. (More: Skyslide : 1,000-Foot-High, Glass-Bottomed Slide Is Coming to Los Angeles) Designed by Yitan Sun and Jianshi Wu, their project the New York Horizon suggests digging below the surface of the current park and recreating a landscape to be seen from the surrounding horizontal skyscraper, according to eVolo. This year's winner was a redesign of New York City’s Central Park, but instead of reaching skyward with the park, designers went in another direction. The magazine eVolo held its 2016 Skyscraper Competition, an annual contest where architects from all over the world submit their innovative designs for buildings of the future, and the winning designs put a major spin on the modern skyscraper that comes to mind. At least, that’s what the winners of an annual skyscraper competition think. In the future, drone towers, sustainable skyscrapers and submerged city parks will scatter the globe.
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