AIS Lawn House Tower Project Announced as Winning Finalists receiving honorable mentions

AIS Lawn House Tower Project receives honorable mentions.

Metropolis launched the Living Cities competition, prompting architects to conceive of design solutions for the coming urban influx and attendant housing crisis that will hit New York in future decades.

Asked to design residential towers in steel, these projects came a close second in addressing the threads of sustainability, flexibility, lifestyle amenities, and multigenerational design that the competition sought to highlight.

“The Lawn House Tower incorporates the benefits of suburbia with the efficiencies of city living. Its design is a series of 200 family-oriented units with lawns, layered on top of each other to create a spiraling tower. These series of walkable green lawn roofs are thermally controlled, retain storm water, and are sound buffered from the above and below units. Temperature sensors are built in, which not only detect outdoor temperatures but also ambient indoor temperatures. The spiral form breaks prevailing wind, creating diffused wind passage between apartments and the lawns. Each individual unit can be fully pre-fabricated and assembled (and easily dismantled) on site. These and other features help in reducing the project’s carbon footprint.”

https://www.metropolismag.com/ideas/living-cities-runners-up/