KDL Portal
An aerial precedent for a high-rise tower integrating large volumetric sky portals and carved terraces within a parkland and lake setting.
- What we like about this project
- Large multi-story glazed voids punch completely through the upper third of the tower massing.
Materials
- glass
- steel
- concrete
Visual identifiers
- carved-tower
- sky-terraces
- glazed-portals
- park-setting
Style tags
- contemporary
- futuristic
- megastructure
Visual tags
- high-rise
- urban-tower
- park-integration
- mixed-use
- waterfront
- Geometry
- Slender vertical tower rising centrally, featuring shifted volumetric cutouts, sky terraces, and exposed multi-story glazed portals along its height.
- Facade system
- Unitized glass curtain wall with integrated double-height framed viewing portals.
- Structural guess
- Steel frame with outrigger core or concrete composite core and perimeter columns.
- Spatial scale
- High-rise tower set within a sprawling urban parkland scale.
- Lighting
- Soft, diffused daylight with gentle highlights catching the glazed tower facades and reflecting in the foreground lake.
- Atmosphere
- Serene and monumental, balancing dense vertical urbanism with tranquil natural elements.
- Environmental context
- Dense urban skyline surrounding a lush park with a central water body and dense mature tree canopy.
- Spatial experience
- The tower floats above a green park edge, establishing a dialogue between dense urban verticality and a natural water body.
- Composition rhythm
- Asymmetrical shifting volumetric blocks creating vertical interruptions in an otherwise slender tower profile.
- Style reading
- Contemporary megastructure architecture
- Program
- Mixed-use commercial and cultural tower
- Perspective
- Aerial/Site
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- glass, steel, concrete
- Visual identifiers
- carved-tower, sky-terraces, glazed-portals, park-setting
- Style tags
- contemporary, futuristic, megastructure
- Visual tags
- high-rise, urban-tower, park-integration, mixed-use, waterfront
- Geometry
- Slender vertical tower rising centrally, featuring shifted volumetric cutouts, sky terraces, and exposed multi-story glazed portals along its height.
- Facade system
- Unitized glass curtain wall with integrated double-height framed viewing portals.
- Structural guess
- Steel frame with outrigger core or concrete composite core and perimeter columns.
- Spatial scale
- High-rise tower set within a sprawling urban parkland scale.
- Lighting
- Soft, diffused daylight with gentle highlights catching the glazed tower facades and reflecting in the foreground lake.
- Atmosphere
- Serene and monumental, balancing dense vertical urbanism with tranquil natural elements.
- Environmental context
- Dense urban skyline surrounding a lush park with a central water body and dense mature tree canopy.
- Spatial experience
- The tower floats above a green park edge, establishing a dialogue between dense urban verticality and a natural water body.
- Composition rhythm
- Asymmetrical shifting volumetric blocks creating vertical interruptions in an otherwise slender tower profile.
- Style reading
- Contemporary megastructure architecture
- Program
- Mixed-use commercial and cultural tower
- Perspective
- Aerial/Site
- Discipline
- architecture