上海临港海岸扭转塔-2
上海
An observation tower precedent featuring a skeletal steel frame and twisting vertical fins, useful for studies in vertical circulation and landmark design.
- What we like about this project
- The tower's profile gently swells and twists outward on one side to accommodate projecting observation balconies.
Materials
- painted-steel
- galvanized-steel
- concrete
Visual identifiers
- twisting-tower
- steel-fins
- open-stairs
- coastal-marker
Style tags
- contemporary
- skeletal
- industrial
- minimal
Visual tags
- tower
- observation
- coastal
- skeletal
- vertical
- Geometry
- Vertical rectangular tower with an asymmetrical bulge and twist midway up, wrapped in fine vertical fins and housing open internal stairs.
- Facade system
- Open steel fin louvers and railing system enclosing structural stairs and platforms.
- Structural guess
- Steel moment frame with cantilevered viewing platforms and internal diagonal stair stringers.
- Spatial scale
- Tall multi-story observation tower rising against a flat coastal expanse.
- Lighting
- Soft, diffused overcast daylight under an evening or hazy sky, casting minimal shadows and highlighting the slender metallic profile.
- Atmosphere
- Serene, solitary, and quiet against the vast open flatness of the coastal landscape.
- Environmental context
- Coastal mudflats under an open sky with a distant low horizon line and breakwater.
- Spatial experience
- The tower stands as a vertical marker on a flat horizon, offering sequential views through its open skeletal structure as one ascends.
- Composition rhythm
- Dense vertical fins create a steady, fine-grained rhythm that breaks and shifts at the tower's twist.
- Style reading
- Contemporary skeletal tower architecture
- Program
- Coastal observation tower
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- painted-steel, galvanized-steel, concrete
- Visual identifiers
- twisting-tower, steel-fins, open-stairs, coastal-marker
- Style tags
- contemporary, skeletal, industrial, minimal
- Visual tags
- tower, observation, coastal, skeletal, vertical
- Geometry
- Vertical rectangular tower with an asymmetrical bulge and twist midway up, wrapped in fine vertical fins and housing open internal stairs.
- Facade system
- Open steel fin louvers and railing system enclosing structural stairs and platforms.
- Structural guess
- Steel moment frame with cantilevered viewing platforms and internal diagonal stair stringers.
- Spatial scale
- Tall multi-story observation tower rising against a flat coastal expanse.
- Lighting
- Soft, diffused overcast daylight under an evening or hazy sky, casting minimal shadows and highlighting the slender metallic profile.
- Atmosphere
- Serene, solitary, and quiet against the vast open flatness of the coastal landscape.
- Environmental context
- Coastal mudflats under an open sky with a distant low horizon line and breakwater.
- Spatial experience
- The tower stands as a vertical marker on a flat horizon, offering sequential views through its open skeletal structure as one ascends.
- Composition rhythm
- Dense vertical fins create a steady, fine-grained rhythm that breaks and shifts at the tower's twist.
- Style reading
- Contemporary skeletal tower architecture
- Program
- Coastal observation tower
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture