#structuralfacade

Prototype

Louis Kahn · Structural Design

Louis Kahn with fascinating Anne Tyng both explored in late 50s singular structural models  for a tower design based on geometry with triangular mesh into facades, this supposed a visionary statement on architecture concept so valid in the currect times. 

Here is a similar concept, a tower which combines modular homes with vertical farms, designed to be build with CLT in India: +

images from: 

# 1-Architectural Review v.121 n.724 May 1957, 345   # 2-Architecture D'Aujourd'Hui v. 25 no. 55 Jul 1954, 11  #3-Perspecta 2 1953, 24 #4- Architecture D'Aujourd'Hui 102 Jun 1962, 5