Tall building
Architecture creates connection between human and the surrounding by creating an 'in between' spaces where people can directly interact to what they perceived from the surrounding through their sensations. In low-rise urban fabric, 'door' and 'window' acts as a filter that keeps certain elements remained outside and selectively allows other elements to your house (light, wind, noise, smell, etc). Thus, that helps bringing the 'flow' of the neighborhood into your private environment. The 'flow' can be explained as a smoothing process, a physical movement that takes place at the door step, a movement of a simple swinging door, smoothly transferring one person from outdoor to indoor. In high-rise building, the transferring moment takes longer. The 'street flow' stopped at the elevator entrance and another flow take over, going through the whole building itself, called 'elevator flow'. The 'elevator flow' can be seen more as a tornado that suck everything up to the sky. Caused an alienation and disorientation leads to uncertainty of behavior in high-rise living. The transferring process going from the street, to main front door, to elevator waiting lobby, to the elevator and to the corridor is confused. The transferring spaces when all these actions take place are neither public nor private nor 'in-between'.
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Distance us and ours environment.
The elevator
As human vision designed to perceive distance by seeing objects moving in a line toward the observer, in that way, human body can perceive distances and depth perception to be able to see the world in three dimensions. When riding an elevator, human body is trapped in steel box, full with buttons and numbers and the box is designed to move human body in the most seamless way that there is nothing to be perceived, not even motion sickness, maybe just a little ears pop. It is designed to eliminate waiting time during transit from high-rise building
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Perception of distance and time is distorted.
The intervention
This intervention contains several platforms which acts as a vertical bus that drives people to their destination and enter through the facade. When taking the journey, passenger will pass by a system consists of outdoor escalator, corridor, stair and balcony. This intervention focuses on vertical transportation and create a connection between the city and the building. This is not design to move as fast as possible, from A to B, but rather focus on the experiences while moving from ground floor to higher floor, how the cityscape gradually changing along the way, expose the living of high-rise residents and to explore the vibrance of multiple activities inside the building. To see this intervention as a part of the city's movement. That the building is not the final destination itself but is a route to your home.