Joining glass blocks
The main idea behind the project is to create a battery of individual rooms, where Each room is unique and identifiable within the housing complex. This was achieved when carrying out careful investigation of local construction methods that revealed the possibility of changing and varying floor slabs to create corners, blankets and balconies well distributed in each department, differentiating each residential space. At the base of the tower you can see that The first levels adapt to local conditions specific street, while The top adapts completely to fit with the sky and the rest of the buildings that fill the city. The in the middle of the tower is where the variation in the much more controlled and subtle levels is noted, since it functions as an axis of the column.
The main distinctive of the 56 Jenga tower is that it has broken the trend of repetition and anonymity in high -rise buildings. The project was created from inside out Since the project began with the meticulous design of individual rooms, treating them as «glass blocks» grouped floor by floor. These blocks join in an orderly but original way to shape the outside of the tower. The strategy of stacking rooms works to create a lot of terraces and outgoing balconies and from the inside these blocks are like a Great windows series with one of the best views in New York.
One of the priorities that was had when designing these glass blocks was to be very careful to Avoid direct view at a neighboring apartment Since these outdoor spaces provide links between people, perhaps strangers, which share the residential building. These houses in heaven form a cohesive battery that It becomes a vertical neighborhood similar to the specific neighborhoods of New York such as Tribeca, Chelsea and West Village.