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"Knotted Tubes" High Rise Residential Tower, Roman Lara Iv
"Knotted Tubes" High Rise Residential Tower, Roman Lara Iv
Architectural Engineering
Knotted Tubes is an 800' residential tower designed by a team of two third year architecture students and one graduate architectural engineering student in the two-quarter high-rise design studio partnered with Skidmore, Owings, & Merrill LLP. The report documents it's design origins and narrative evolution throughout the studio's duration, as well as the design process and final iteration of the whole system, focusing on the structural system and tectonic integration.