The Overskyscraper
Tower Collectives
Harvard University
Cambridge, United States, 2008
Professor: Ciro Najle
Assistant: Trevor Patt
Students: Adi Assif, Charilaos Biskos, Jennifer Boner, Nicolas Fayad, Anna Font, Ioannis Kitanis, Youngsu Lee, Shi Zou
The skyscraper is the ultimate (latest and decisive) building typology to absorb a systemic megalomania in a single cybernetic universe, a machine with its own laws that generates unpredictable organizations by extreme congestion and mutual intensification. (RK) The over-skyscraper is the primal (primordial and elemental) building typology that gives substrate to the proliferation of systemic megalomanias in a plural cybernetic multiverse, hosting a multitude of organizations in a gradient of intensity.
The skyscraper is pure exteriority paradoxically enveloped in a self-contained building system, where the exponential discrepancy between the increase of the interior volume and that of its containing envelope produce an unprecedented organizational potential. (RK) The over-skyscraper is a multiplicity of various kinds and degrees of exteriority, a collective building life form constituted of numerous systemic beings, whose assemblage and collaboration engender a manifold singularity, a monstrous commune.