SYNOPSIS

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Tower tower is a living fully functional lifestyle hotel. To pose a proposal to the question of “What is the future of co-working in the next ten years?”, to that a new tower inserted into a long narrow existing tri-parti building was the answer; this vertical life was the answer. Like delirious New York and other lofty spaces such as SOHO, this was not to be one, but to propose a space where the average community of Chicago can afford this vertical life. A life where community is a firsthand, where lifestyle is a priority, by exploring the idea of designing a co-working space without a co-working space.

The tower includes amenities crucial to any working individual such as healthcare, childcare, laundry service, boutique offices, shared kitchen, common social spaces, common living, private living, a swimming pool and event space, all co-living within the inserted tower which is surrounded by an ethos of co-work. Co-working spaces today don't exist in a void where offices are in honeycomb cubicles but rather open plan spaces where members of the community benefit from one other; creating this inter-dependency of both work and companionship. The blob like event space crashing into the tower is a grand gesture that breaks away from the convention of the rectangular block, looking out to the heart of the city, tantalizing the very many individuals to want to experience the space.