Bundle Tower

Bundle Tower is a freely floating, latent utopia, designed to replace the towers of the World Trade Center, which were destroyed in the terrorist attack on New York. However, it could also stand in other locations in metropolises such as Beijing, London, Mexico City, Paris, Seoul, Singapore, Shanghai, or Tokyo. The tower is presented in its most general form, without any local specifics that might arise from the eventual differences of specific towers or from the character of a specific plot of land. Bundle Tower can be described as a maximally diagrammatic form of an architectural type that emerges from a general ecosystem and awaits specific conditions in which to realize its potential. A provisional scale has been chosen, corresponding to the original WTC complex (1.3 million m²), but in principle, it is designed to become the tallest building in the world.
When we look at the history of skyscrapers, we find that with greater height, there is always a concentration and strengthening of materials at the building's perimeter. The taller the building, the less stable its perimeter becomes, and it is necessary to increase the building's radius. The result is very deep layouts that cannot do without artificial lighting and mechanical ventilation.
We wanted to create a new type of skyscraper and tried to work more with the overall volume of the building rather than just its structure and layout. Above all, we wanted to avoid excessively deep office spaces, which the former WTC solved by splitting the complex into pairs of independent towers. Our design assumes maintaining the physical continuity of the entire mass of the building and its statically advantageous use. The complex will take the form of a bundle of interconnected towers that support each other, thereby increasing the structural strength of the construction without deepening the layout. In contrast to the traditional model of high-rise buildings, based on a strategy of minimization, the arrangement of the bundle of towers means a firmer structure, a richer operational scheme, and ultimately a safer building.