This high-rise project, located in the vibrant Ancoats, was designed and conceived as a ‘scheme breaker’. High-rise buildings have noticeably been considered over the years as quite controversial, especially since they are often seen by many as heavy structures that abruptly break off city’s skylines. The idea behind this project was to break this wrong perception of towers, by creating an atypically light’ tower (the term being used in this project in terms of visual lightness). The focus was creating the perception of a light-weight tower which appears almost to be floating at instances.
The entire development of the project was centred around this main concept. The juxstanpunction of the curvness of the rings and the squareness of the building blocks was used to create a dynamic aesthetic for the tower. However, the rings also act as structural support for the building blocks (slightly shifted to maximise direct sunlight onto the work floors), providing them with a caging and lateral stability.
