Tokyo Parking Tower

There is a large mass of traffic that raises a big question, how can you manage a large mass of car parks when there are not enough square meters of land? Is it possible to manage a tower that meets these needs?

The project must contemplate the following program.
1- The design of the area surrounding the tower: it includes green areas shade spaces, paths...
2- The tower: it must be designed in the urban void of 2260 m² of surface, a tower whose main use is parking. The height, the number of floors, the total capacity of the tower will be determined by the participant himself. The participants must design it according to the following concepts:
- Use of space to maximize capacity
- Integration with the environment of the building (facade finish)
- Self-sufficient Building
- It will be positively valued that the building contributes energetically to the city.
- The building is allowed to be expandable or transformable over time.

The area of these spaces will be decided by each individual team. This program is indicative and therefore can be modified by the participant. That is why the character of the proposal can be modified as long as it is fully justified in the proposal.The design freedom is absolute and the intervention surface is free, this contest suggests that the participant investigate the forms of intervention in a singular landscape and a building that is potentially sensitive. Study limits, scales, views, access, materiality are the keys to follow.It will be positively valued to investigate the sustainability techniques that make the research station self-sufficient in its entirety.

* Being a contest of ideas, participants are free to modify the proposed surfaces. This report should be taken as a reference of the spaces necessary for the project to be functional and as a measure of the total dimensions of the project. Participants can suggest new areas not proposed in this document, as well as eliminate or combine some of those already mentioned.