DSBA + upgrade.studio won the 1st prize in Taiwan Tower Conceptual International Competition

Taichung, Taiwan
D.S.B.A. + upgrade.studio
Post By:Kitticoon Poopong

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FLOATING OBSERVATORIES” Proposal by Dorin STEFAN’s DSBA, Mihai CARCIUN and upgrade.studio wins the “Taiwan Tower” Conceptual International Competition.

"Starting from the ‘geographical’ visual of Taiwan – which is an island resembling a leaf – we have developed the concept of the technological tree: we have designed 8 spatial leaves (with eight being a propitious number in the local culture) in the form of zeppelin-like elevators which glide up and down the ‘tree trunk” and which serve the purpose of observation decks / belvedere. I have