The tower grows through a sequence of morphological “stages,” each responding to competing forces—historic preservation at the base, structural efficiency in the mid-rise, and extreme slenderness at the upper floors. Instead of treating these pressures as compromises, the project frames them as generative rules. Programmatic blocks (museum, residences, offices, public viewing levels) act as nutrients that thicken, taper, or split the structural body, producing a vertical typology that is never stable and never singular.
A continuous structural lattice, analyzed and calibrated through iterative simulations, behaves almost like a vascular system: redistributing load, diffusing wind stress, and creating a gradient of densities as the tower ascends. This produces a form that reads less like a monolith and more like a cultivated organism—part graft, part scaffold, part bloom.
The result is a skyscraper that exposes its own making: a tower that doesn’t hide the forces acting upon it, but expresses them as its architecture. It questions the desire for height not as a race to the sky, but as a negotiation between urban responsibility, structural logic, and the inherent strangeness of pushing a building beyond its comfortable limits.