High-rise Habitat

The high-rise habitat combines dense urban development with a green habitat adding new public space, and nature in a terraced landscape of parks. A mix of city and nature is created in the combination of a complete green roof and traditional stepped high-rise building. The stepped landscape offers a variety of pocket parks from street level parks to roof parks and sky parks. The green roof is a new ecosystem increasing biodiversity, cooling the building as well as surrounding city spaces by absorbing and vaporizing rainwater.

Project name

High-rise Habitat

Typology

Residential, Commercial

Location

Manhattan, NYC, NY, USA

Year

2012

Status

Competition entry

Size

80.000 m2

Client

Collaborators

Buro Happold

Design team

Sinus Lynge, Tue Hesselberg Foged, Toni Rubio Soler, Ivana Stancic, Jeppe Kiib, Monica Capitanio, Andris Rubenis, Yulia Kozlova