LANDMARK TOWER / U2 STUDIO.
ARCHITECTURAL CONCEPT COMPETITION

COMPETITION REPORT
We propose a non-recognizable form, a  new set located in an essentially renewed site assigned for new possibilities and linked to the new changing requeriments. The figure developes into a continuous changing spiral, through the spatial spreading of its plan. The cross-section envolves a non lineal free-section and multiple spaces that could lodge  mixed and different activities. The mechanism we use is to stack and provide continuity to the uses, developing different public (pubs, cinemas, gyms, exhibition halls...) and private (housing) spaces. Working, living, drinking, shopping, running, dancing... could manipulate and adapt the spaces, generating new upright relations and expanding the real limits of the building. The result is that each floor will be dictated by each user and spectator, by their own necessity and imagination. So, a simultaneous actuation from many fronts in a continuous mixing, enriching and changing process, where all the situations are not determined in an single way, but are taking part in a global continuity.

The image by the piers appears as a vertical landscape figure: a singular piling of hybrid and mixed activities and possibilities, where the building  could relate to its inhabitants, allowing them to change the relationships and the way the tower is perceived by the city. Visitors will cross over the roofs and the tower, and circulate along the central space of the set. The entrance building is thought as an artificial landscape, where the roofs become pedestrian promenades and open air spaces.

The construction process is thought as an industrial assembling, mixing the heavy-industries past and the new heterogeneus present. The structure is conceived as a continous concrete surface,which defines the requested spaces, in accordance with all the complex spacial situations. An aluminium skin generates the external enclosure, which protects from the direct sunlight, offers transparencies, and establishes a changing relationship with the landscape. So the tower will become part of the daily sunlight effects, shining with the rays of light and turning into a lamp in the sunset, as a new landmark in the Dublin pier.