GREEN TOWER

way above the ground provides enough reason to stay there for a couple of days.

There is a plan on extending the hotel further down to the river. The aim was to create spaces where people could retrieve to, detached and off the ground, unpretentious and reduced to a minimum. The architects wanted to evoke a sense of impermanence and allow for other experimental structures to fi ll in the blanks in the future. The architects are now collaborating with other architects on

experimenting with new shapes, materials and organizational ideas– all surrounding the idea of off- the- ground structures.

Taking advantage of the height on aspects like passive cooling and shading through adjacent trees, being away from mosquito shrub and simply enjoying another vantage point was only a few of the design drivers shaping this place. The architects are welcoming studios to chip in their ideas in form of a small competition that will be launched soon.