Sweden | The Turning Torso | Scandinavia | Malmö | Vänder Torso | skandinavien
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Turning Torso is a neo-futurist residential skyscraper in Sweden and the tallest building in Scandinavia.
In 1999, Calatrava was invited to design a mixed-use residential tower for a prominent site in Malmö's Western Harbor area and was planned to be exhibited during the European Housing Expo 2001. The project was envisioned as an important part of the transformation program of Malmö's Western Harbor near the A–resund Bridge connecting to Sweden and Denmark. Given the opportunity to enhance and enlarge a public area defined by the intersection of two main roads, Calatrava conceived his project as a free-standing sculptural element posed within the cityscape.
The form of the tower is based on one of his sculpture, the Turning Torso, where he abstract the form of human movement into a stack of cubes positioned elegantly around a core. In the original sculpture, seven cubes are set around a steel support to produce a spiraling structural effect. In the HSB Turning Torso, the building's form is composed of nine box units, shaped like cubes with triangular tips. Each unit houses five floors of about 2,000 square meters and are in fact the 'sub-buildings' of the tower. The tower's nucleus containing the internal elevators and stairs, through which the units communicate is the equivalent of the sculpture's steel support. At 190 meter high, the Turning Torso is the tallest residential building in Sweden and the second tallest residential building in Europe.
At the top of the tower, visitors can see Copenhagen to the west, Falsterbo to the south, the Skane plain to the east and Helsingborg to the north. Units one and two contain 4000 square meters of office space. Units three through nine contain 147 apartments, varying in size from 45 to 190 square meters, summing to a total of 13,500 square meters of residential space. Served by three elevators, each residential floor accommodates one to five apartments with all wet spaces (kitchen, bathroom) allocated near the nucleus. The meeting rooms are allocated at the top of unit nine, on floors 53 and 54. Each of these meeting floors has two rooms and one of the room can be divided. The main load-bearing structure is a circular reinforced concrete core, whose center corresponds exactly to the rotation center of the floors.
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In 1999, Calatrava was invited to design a mixed-use residential tower for a prominent site in Malmö's Western Harbor area and was planned to be exhibited during the European Housing Expo 2001. The project was envisioned as an important part of the transformation program of Malmö's Western Harbor near the A–resund Bridge connecting to Sweden and Denmark. Given the opportunity to enhance and enlarge a public area defined by the intersection of two main roads, Calatrava conceived his project as a free-standing sculptural element posed within the cityscape.
The form of the tower is based on one of his sculpture, the Turning Torso, where he abstract the form of human movement into a stack of cubes positioned elegantly around a core. In the original sculpture, seven cubes are set around a steel support to produce a spiraling structural effect. In the HSB Turning Torso, the building's form is composed of nine box units, shaped like cubes with triangular tips. Each unit houses five floors of about 2,000 square meters and are in fact the 'sub-buildings' of the tower. The tower's nucleus containing the internal elevators and stairs, through which the units communicate is the equivalent of the sculpture's steel support. At 190 meter high, the Turning Torso is the tallest residential building in Sweden and the second tallest residential building in Europe.
At the top of the tower, visitors can see Copenhagen to the west, Falsterbo to the south, the Skane plain to the east and Helsingborg to the north. Units one and two contain 4000 square meters of office space. Units three through nine contain 147 apartments, varying in size from 45 to 190 square meters, summing to a total of 13,500 square meters of residential space. Served by three elevators, each residential floor accommodates one to five apartments with all wet spaces (kitchen, bathroom) allocated near the nucleus. The meeting rooms are allocated at the top of unit nine, on floors 53 and 54. Each of these meeting floors has two rooms and one of the room can be divided. The main load-bearing structure is a circular reinforced concrete core, whose center corresponds exactly to the rotation center of the floors.
#Sweden #Turning Torso #Scandinavia #Malmö #UnlimitedTravelersCorp #InterminableCorp #VänderTorso #skandinavien