CONTINUUM TOWER      

The vertical expansion of buildings in Skyscapper typologies typically creates an abrupt connection to the ground it occupies. This is predominantly the case in the city of Chicago, where this project is located.

This proposal provides an alternative way of conceptualizing the meeting point between the tall building and the surrounding context of Chicago. The Continuum Tower establishes a double-layer facade that acts as a canopy that links the public programs outside the tower to the private mixed-use programs inside the tower. This in-between space further connects the tower to its contextual surroundings, offering a pedestrian sky bridge, which creates new connections between each side of Lake Michigan. 

The tower’s design is inspired and informed by the surrounding skyscrapers’ fabric; the tower tapers at specific heights referencing the prominent symbolic tall buildings nearby to have a historical-temporal connection to the surrounding context and trace the history of tall buildings on site. Therefore, the tower is taking the name of Continuum Tower for its contextuality in Time and Space and is set to have a height of 616m (2023 ft).