This project aims to invert the negative consequences of the Los Laureles Canyon’s treacherous topography and south to north slope, using them instead to responsibly accommodate the projected increase in population as set forth by the Municipal Planning Institute, IMPlan. In addition it provides the services most canyon residents say they either need or want, whether it is for themselves or for their children. The project considers the canyon walls as a series of highrise buildings, or, skyscrapers tilted on their sides. These are Building_Transit COREdors.
Consider the high-rise building: This typology is entirely about efficiency. Maximizing a small footprint, the high-rise stacks multiple floors and occupants into a densely efficient tower. Services and utilities are collected into a vertical core that services each floor. Elevators move people up and down between levels connecting the top-most floor to the bottom-most floor. Pipes circulate water; ducts carry air; electrical and data lines power each level’s outlets, appliances and machinery. Vertical circulation of all kinds are collected and channeled through a corridor of services that runs vertically throughout the entire structure.
electricity | data water | air vertical circulation
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