Greenwich tower. A new concept for a skyscraper in Manhattan NYC

The title of our project is « GreenWich Tower » and it deals with the development of a multifunctional skyscraper and a new park in the area of Lower Manhattan, placed in NYC. The subject of our thesis was proposed by a student competition in Turkey, promoted by Isover. In fact the destruction of the existent Battery Park Garage and the revitalization of the Battery Park Tunnel is a real issue, which might be realized soon and we wanted to present our proposal. The choice of this subject was motivated by the will of accomplishing, as a final project of our Master Degree, a complex work about an original typology of building: the skyscraper. The aims of this thesis are: the creation of a big park over the tunnel, the integration of a skyscraper in such a valuable area, the development of a sustainable project, the close examination of particular themes such as new technologies and the challenger study of the structure. We start detailing the urban analysis that lead us to reorganize the project area and develop a master plan of our district integrating the design of a contemporary multifunctional park over an existing tunnel. Then we explain our architectural concepts illustrating them through the drawing of plans for every use of the skyscraper, the cross sections, the elevations and three dimensional views. The architectural and structural project are developed together. Once the project is basically defined we deal with the constructive technology and quality of energetic performances of the tower. We tried to present some original technological solutions rather than create a summary of existent solutions. This project has potential to cover well the four study areas of this Master of Science in Architectural Engineering, which are Urban Design, Architectural Design, Technological Design and Structural Design.