Future Towers

摘要

Future Towers is a part of Amanora Park Town, a township in Pune which largely houses young professionals and the city's growing middle class. In just 11 years, Amanora Park Town has grown to over 25,000 residents by focusing on a diverse, high-quality mixture of towers alongside low-density villas. But the pressure to expand faster with more high-density, low-individuality housing was ever-present. MVRDV's design for the Future Towers aimed to offer an alternative to the pattern of generic, repetitive residential towers resulting from rapid development all over India. Because construction costs are low in India, and elevators are comparatively expensive, a reduced number of lift cores combined with corridors were in this case more economically desirable than having many towers. Therefore, instead of a cluster of freestanding buildings, MVRDV's response to the brief was a singular mountainous structure with peaks and valleys, under which 1,068 apartments are unified into one building.A critical deviation from the norm was to convince the client that the entire development would be more vibrant with a mixture of different units. This way, the building would ensure that users from the full spectrum of India's exploding middle class all mingle.