Apartments are made up of rooms stacked on top of one another in this extreme vertical housing proposal by Chicago studio Kwong von Glinow, which is the latest video in our Dezeen x MINI Living series.
Titled Tower within a Tower, the scheme tries to solve an issue that is typical in traditional "pancake stacks" of apartments – the lack of opportunity for neighbourly activity.
Kwong Von Glinow proposed the conceptual Tower Within a Tower as a solution for Hong KongKwong Von Glinow's proposal, which won a challenge to create new housing typologies for Hong Kong, reimagines the apartment unit as a collection of spaces stacked on top of each other vertically rather than arranged on a horizontal plane.
Each customisable apartment would be assembled off-site from a selection of modules, chosen according to the needs of future inhabitants. The scheme reimagines apartments as vertical homes with rooms stacked on top of each otherThese units would then be brought to the site and stacked on top of each other to form an apartment building.
Each successive floor of every unit would have a smaller footprint, causing the vertical apartments to take on a pyramid-like appearance and opening up space between the upper floors of the homes.
The pyramid-like form of the apartments is intended to open up communal space between the homesAlison Von Glinow, co-founder of the studio alongside Lap Chi Kwong, emphasises that the spaces between units have been opened up to foste...