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LAI, Jimenez

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Jimenez Lai is currently assistant professor at the Uni

Illinois, Chicago. He received his Master of Architecture

University of Toronto. Previously, Lai has lived and work

ert shelter at Taliesin, Arizona, and resided in a shippin

at Atelier Van Lieshout, the N etherlands. Lai has r eceivin competitions in Japan, Eur ope and the USA. Profess

has worked for Michael Meredit h, REX, and OMA/Rem

Rotterdam and New York. In February 2006, his Space

was featured on archinect.com and in 2007 he was a re

of the LeFevre Fellowship. In April 2008 his projectPha

Module opened at Materials & Applications in Los Ange


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Ill write.

I promise.

do you really

have to go?

Ill be back in one year.

Its a really pr estigious

experimental project...

...You do remember

today is our anniversary,

right?

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Welcome.My name

isWyatt.

Are you ready foryour assignment?


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I cant believe that I will

be gone the whole year.

It will be a good year,

just you wait and see...

We are approaching

troposphere...

Remember? In 2009, Burj

was complete

...at over 800m, it

became the tallest

structure on earth.

people were asking...

how high can we go?

where would it b

what will it look like?


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These towers gradually required

resources and economies on a

national level.

NewYork City celebrated thecompletion of itsTower of Babel

on the New Years Eve of 2200.

It is a 12km extrusion of the site

formerly known as Central Park,scraping the Stratosphere.

The soar for new heights

continued until the world

could only afford 10Towers.

Beijing2012

843 m

800 m

1000 m

1200 m

1400 m

1600 m

1800 m

2000 m

2200 m

Tehran2014

871 m 900 m 921 m

1000 m1048 m

1111 m

1175 m

12,000m

1257 m

1389 m1477 m

1688 m

1800 m

Singapore2017

Sydney2019

Rome2022

Graz2029

Istanbul2033

Chicago2036

Tokyo2039

Bombay2042

Paris2046

HongKong2049

SaltLakeCity2050

(public transit map)

The ManhattanTower had

the capacity for 87 million

inhabitants. It is a State in

one architecture.

Vacant properties in the sky

needed to be sold quickly.

The government decided

to intervene.

Lawmakers pass

new bills to entic

owners to move

Lowered credit rates, debts,

and subsidy programmes,

It was a new beginning

for many citizens.


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such power...

The Tower vacuumed all nearby resources and population.Architecture became the city.

This reversed the figure-ground relationship between Manhattan and the Central Park.

The government implemented all public spaces and amenities inside the tower, drawing

a zoning map in an architectural section. It made sense for citizens to abandon suburbia.

Following the vertical urbanism, various housing typologies were developed in sections.

Planetary conditions in verticality determined much of the zoning strategies.

A new dawn for all.


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500 km/h of electricity...

ATTENTION!

Arriving: TROPOPAUSE.

Final Station.

80% of the planets vapour...

ugh!

As you know, it is

physically impossible

to live in Stratosphere.

Stay here for a year.

We calculated a 90%

survival rate.

You are our experiment.

Show us humans can live

higher thanTropopause.

(In memory of Jo

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