EU Tower; a high-rise building for the European Union in Brussels

EU Tower; a high-rise building for the European Union in Brussels

Premnath, J.

Merkeley, T. (mentor)
Ronald, D. (mentor)

Architecture

Architecture

TALL Studio (Vertical cities Europe)

2013-06-25

The project is a mixed use high-rise building for the European Union to come up in the European quarter of Brussels. It is a part of the original master plan for the Rue de la Loi by Christian Potzamparc to improve the public experience on the avenue. The design exercise aims at looking into the issues generated by contemporary high-rise buildings on the urban fabric and also about representing diverse European values and character in one single building. Most of the central business districts of major cities are no longer welcoming to a pedestrian; with buildings shutting down their ground level to the passersby; leaving nothing for them to look at or engage with. The office building typology including high-rise towers which are filling up the cities for the last few decades have destroyed much of the original spirit of the European cities. The design challenge is to approach these problems and develop a design which can integrate with its context while bringing new life and activities to the street and also deal with the issues of architectural form and identity.

highrise building
mixed use

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Student theses

master thesis

(c) 2013 Premnath, J.