Lying skyscrapers span four tall buildings?

In Chongqing, a big city in southwest China, 6,000 construction workers are busy on a large construction site overlooking the intersection of the Yangtze River and Jialing River. Eight skyscrapers will rise from the river: two of them are over 350 meters high and the other six are over 250 meters high. ?

The Raffles City project in Chongqing was designed by world-renowned designer Moses? Designed by Safdie, the total construction area will reach 65,438+034,000 square meters, integrating residence, office building, shopping mall and entertainment club, integrating various public transportation facilities and a park. It also has a more famous uniqueness: buildings over 300 meters in length? A deceptive skyscraper? It spans four towers and is connected at the height of 42 floors (60 floors in Chinese).

Every landmark in China has set a world record, and raffles city in Chongqing has the highest covered bridge and the most connecting towers in the world. There are also smaller covered bridges between adjacent towers, so people can shuttle between eight towers without going down to the ground.

Safdie said that this project is the most complicated one he has ever designed. He said:? It will become the center of the city. A densely populated city like Chongqing has no space to build a large park and has to move into the air. ?

Outside the construction site, there are vegetable markets, wholesale markets, vendors and food stalls on both sides of the street. Construction workers huddle together to eat spicy noodles, and vendors bargain with customers with fruit baskets on their shoulders.

Safdie said that the project reflected an increasingly obvious trend in urban planning: skyscrapers built vertically for a long time began to develop horizontally.

He said:? I think it's time for a more three-dimensional urban planning. Urban planning will begin to require people to relate all kinds of property to each other-first on the ground, and then transferred to the air, rather than looking at the land in two dimensions. ?

The covered bridge in Raffles City will have a public observatory, a residents' club, hotels and restaurants, and an outdoor viewing platform. Safdie and his team have tried to connect tall buildings with covered bridges in Singapore.

There are other similar projects in the world.

Minneapolis, USA has the largest elevated passage system in the world? In Asian cities such as Hong Kong and Bangkok, air corridors are public facilities connecting buildings, stations and sidewalks. These facilities are usually only a few stories above the ground-but as the tower height rises, so does the height of the air corridor.

Some towers of Beijing Contemporary Wanguo City are connected by air corridors between floors 12 and 18. Dashilan Apartment in Singapore is a large-scale public rental housing project. Seven 5 1 floor apartment buildings are connected by air corridors and air gardens. The Velo Tower in Seoul has two skyscrapers connected by a 30-story air corridor.

Safdie added? Can the concept of connectivity requirements be extended? You can even plan a 25-story street. You have every chance to realize these ideas in a certain plot, and I think this is our goal. ?

If the sky corridor represents the future, then technology will accelerate its arrival. German engineering company Thyssen? Krupp demonstrated a new horizontal-vertical elevator system last year. The system can get rid of the height limitation and realize the translation between buildings. Buildings can be built higher and interconnected to form a network of connections all over the city.

Thyssen Michael, director of Krupp elevator system? Cesar said: This gives us an opportunity to understand architecture from different angles. For me, as a designer and engineer, I no longer need to consider putting the elevator in the center of the building? I can install them anywhere in the building. Realize translation and create new degrees of freedom. You can let people move freely in the same building or adjacent buildings. You don't even have to change elevators. ?

Matthew, head of Asia-Pacific energy and sustainable service department of Jones Lang LaSalle? Clifford thinks that the interconnection of high-rise buildings has a positive impact? Such as avoiding ground pollution and traffic congestion.

In raffles city, Chongqing, most air corridor facilities will be open to the public. This project includes a park around the tower, and this project also leads directly to the subway station and bus station.