Asymptote worked on this project in collaboration with OMA, designing the red slice through the building that houses the exchange. I led the design from our side, which was pretty cool, as Rem referred to me as “dude” the whole time.
This is one of the first real projects that I designed that I thought was any good. It has some glaring problems, but it opened up a door for me to see how techniques I’d been using in experimental work could begin to apply to the real world.
The Budapest Bank Tower we designed at Asymptote Architecture has won an international competition that included Zaha Hadid and Frank Gehry among others. The tower frames the view across the Danube in an industrial section that is being developed by the Orco Group (the competition organizers). The 30 story tower is designed to incorporate a second tower, to be constructed later, and is set to become the tallest building in Budapest.
The scheme is based on a single line that projects through multiple vectors and is given volume through a series of hyperbolic projections. The building is supported by a two rotating cores and a structural skin that we developed in collaboration with ARUP. The mesh skin is based on experiments we conducted with perforated topologies and aggregation, where a surface would become less perforated under heavier loads and more perforated under light loads.
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Asymptote Architecture: Hani Rashid and Lise Anne Couture
Perth Amboy High School » Concept Rendering
Perth Amboy High School » Model
The competition design for Perth Amboy High School that I did with Eric Goldemberg at Eisenman Architects, is going to be exhibited along with the other finalists at the Architectural League of New York. We took second place behind John Ronan. Check out the competition website here.