Vertically Stacked

Source: Charles Correa

Kanchanjunga Apartments, Mumbai, India, 1983 designed by Charles Correa

Correa pushed his capacity for ingenious cellular planning to the limit, as is evident from the interlock of four different apartment typologies varying from 3 to 6 bedrooms each. Smaller displacements of level were critical in this work in that they differentiated between the external earth filled terraces and the internal elevated living volumes. -- ArchDaily

Source: Safdie Architects

Ardmore Habitat Condominium, Singapore, 1985 designed by Safdie Architects

the project consists of two 17-story vertically-stacked units with terraces. -- architect's web site

Tartu Rebase Street, Tartu, Estonia, 2008 designed by Atelier Thomas Pucher and Bramberger [architects]

....to combine the advantages of privacy, outdoor gardens, and boundless views that a single residential home offers with the low economic and maintenance costs of an apartment.

....solution was to create `Stacked Villas´ by superimposing Villas or Penthouses on top of each other. This would maintain the major advantages such as wide boundless views, private outdoor spaces and generous living areas on the one hand as well as the economical advantages of less building and maintenance costs which would subsequently have less impact on the environment. -- ArchDaily

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The Emporio, Bangkok, Thailand, 2008 designed by Architects 49

While façade design, emphasizes the vertical architecture element to enhance sense of elegance and luxury, inspired by eastern cultural and traditional element. The Emporio place is where two disparate cultures meet in their finest forms. The modern western design yields the optimum functionality for easy living. Enchanted by the rich oriental values discreetly expresses in the outstanding rhythm of architecture. -- ArchDaily

Source: Misae Hiromatsu archdaily.com

Bumps, Beijing, China, 2008 designed by SAKO Architects

The residence buildings are 80 meters height. Every two floors are set as a unit. Every unit is staggered by 2 meters horizontally. Whole 80m’s building is repetitions of these units. The setback areas are used for terraces. Interlaced black and white units highlight the concave-convex façade and show a clear lineament of the building. All the windows are 1 meter square. Randomly placed windows weaken the existence of all pillars and beams. Therefore, the appearance of the buildings look like stacked by lots of small black and white ‘boxes’ together.  -- ArchDaily

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Harbour Isle Apartments, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2008 designed by Lundgaard & Tranberg Arkitekter

The project builds upon an urban plan that transforms a former industrial area to a modern, integrated residential and business zone, taking better advantage of the harbour front location.

The project consists of 236 apartments in two U-shaped blocks with inner courtyards opening towards the harbour.

Varying heights of 5 to 8 storeys visually reduce the scale of the project and, along with the thin proportions of the glass partitions, give the white facades a light and graceful appearance. -- architect's web site

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Broadcasting Place, Leeds, UK, 2009 designed by Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios

Through this massive form, windows were conceived as the flow of water cascading through a rock formation. This design intent is reinforced by the selection of cor-ten steel as a solid, sculptural and weathering material, constructed as a rain-screen façade.  -- ArchDaily

Source: Josef Weichenberger Architects

Wohngarten Sensengasse, Vienna, Austria, 2009 designed by Josef Weichenberger Architects

The linear construction, composed of three connected individual buildings, creates a membrane-like break between the park area and the urban space. In doing so, particular attention has been paid to permeability with paths and visual connections in the direction of the park on the one hand and the partly two-floor ground floor area forms part of the open urban space. These spaces with their views upon the surrounding greenery create a “green break” in association with the untouched and completely preserved tree avenue in the Sensengasse which fuse the façade of the garden and the airy opening of the “vertical green” together with the park to form one organic whole. -- ArchDaily

Source: Wang Weijen Architecture archdaily.com

Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom, Hong Kong, 2009 designed by Wang Weijen Architecture

With four strategic voids created vertically and each became activity centres for four-levels of classrooms, the design organizes the program into several four-storied cubical massing as planning module. Through offsetting these cubical modules, a series of inter-connected greenery sky gardens are developed into an alternative pedestrian system all the way up as semi-outdoor campus spaces. -- ArchDaily

Source: Julian Weyer archdaily.com

Siloetten/The Sil(o)houette, Løgten, Denmark, 2010 designed by C. F. Møller Architects in collaboration with Christian Carlsen Arkitektfirma

.... where the former silo complex has been transformed into a ‘rural high-rise’, with 21 high-quality residences composed as individual and unique ‘stacked villas’. -- ArchDaily

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Social Housing Tower Of 75 Units In Europa Square, Barcelona, Spain, 2010 designed by Roldán + Berengué

Grouping together floors from 3 to 3, the image of the tower, perceived in some kind of cinematographic long plan, could approximate to a building of 5 floors of height.  -- ArchDaily

Source: Fran Parente archdaily.com

Fidalga 727, Sao Paulo, Brazil, 2010 designed by Triptyque

This proposal is nourished by the formal and textual complexity of the site, and reformulates the traditional “paulista” residence model. The fragmentation of the building’s body into three parts is made for a better integration of the recreational area and the vertical / horizontal circulation spaces. A small square in the frontal area is given back to the urban space.  -- ArchDaily

 Source: Thilo Härdtlein archdaily.com

Stella Zwei, Vienna, Austria , 2010 designed by Zechner & Zechner

The external form of the building is defined by the non-uniform placement of loggias, some of which are planned to span two stories. The loggias are bright spaces cut into the anthracite grey box, and this creates a playful and varied facade. -- ArchDaily

Source: Jim Ernst / DPA / Adagp archdaily.com

La Liberté , Groningen, The Netherlands, 2011 designed by Dominique Perrault Architecture

Through the treatment of the façades, Dominique Perrault creates a real dialogue between the both buildings and between the project and its urban environment. Whatever the viewpoint, the façades of the three housing blocks never offer the same treatment of colours – black, grey and whites. These shades of colour strengthen the stack impression and energize the city skyline. -- ArchDaily

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Residential Tower, Mexico City, Mexico, 2011 designed by Meir Lobaton + Kristjan Donaldson

The residential tower provides the family the luxury of living in an apartment building without sacrificing the comfort of a backyard.  Gardens located on every level try to break with the dichotomy between land and building, and, more importantly, provide an area that is attractive and functional for the family members.Each floor plan is organized around a single apartment type that is 400 square meters with a gardened extension of approximately 160 square meters.  By rotating the apartments 90 degrees at successive levels, the gardens sit above the cantilevered bedrooms of the apartment below. -- ArchDaily

Source: Federico Cairoli archdaily.com

First of May Neighborhood, Santa Fe, Argentina, 2012 designed by CBAyA

The combination of two different kinds of standard floor plans, in quantity and location at different heights generates formal variables that seek to adapt to the changes that every investment project suffers. Both floor options are formed around a central void, which in either case opens to the front, the side, or the back allowing views to different points on each level and ventilating the whole from within. By locating in that central space, vertical and horizontal circulations, we are looking to replace the typical closed and dark core, with a space that is integrated in multiple directions, and allows different parts of the city to peek into the internal structure of this building which aspires to become a neighborhood. -- ArchDaily

Source: Boeri Studio archdaily.com

Bosco Verticale, Milan, Italy, 2013 designed by Boeri Studio

Bosco Verticale, Vertical Forest, by Boeri Studio is a high-density tower block that experiments with the integration of a lush landscape within the facade of the architecture.  The two towers, currently in construction in Milan, Italy, deal with the concept of regenerating the lost forests on the ground within the inhabitable space of buildings.  The towers are 80 metres and 112 metres tall.  Together they will have the capacity to hold 480 big and medium sized trees, 250 small size trees, 11,000 groundcover plants and 5,000 shrubs – the equivalent of a hectare of forest.  -- ArchDaily

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Source: Klab archdaily.com

Urban Cubes, Pagkrati, Athens, Greece designed by KLab

The different units are manifested on the façade as cubes that protrude from the building’s surface as a way to give a sculptural sophistication to the project that uses the city’s typology in a new manner. -- ArchDaily

Source: FG+SG archdaily.com

360° Building, São Paulo, Brazil, 2013 designed by Isay Weinfeld

....360º Building as an alternative to the vertical multi-family housing “model”, which, in its commonest form, merely stacks up apartment units – ordinary, compact and closed onto themselves. ....features 62 elevated homes with yards: real yards, not balconies, designed as genuine living spaces, wide, airy and bright. -- ArchDaily

Source: Iwan Baan archrecord.construction.com

Ardmore Residence, Singapore, 2013 designed by UNStudio

....Each unit features outdoor showers off the master bedroom, large glazed areas, and double-height balconies for natural ventilation, plenty of sunlight, and vast panoramas of Singapore. -- Architectural Record

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Source: Dana Polo archdaily.com

Z Design Building, Holon, Israel, 2013 designed by Ami Shinar – Amir Mann

This articulation is achieved simply as each second floor (containing four apartments) rotates around the building core relative to the two floors below or above. Thus also every second apartment gains a large 30 sqm “roof terrace”, as an integral element of building mass. -- ArchDaily

Source: Iwan Baan popupcity.net

Torre David: Informal Vertical Communities, book by Urban Think Tank

Torre David is an unfinished skyscraper in the heart of Caracas’ former central business district. 45 floors high it’s the third tallest building in Venezuela. For some reasons the tower has been under construction for over 21 years, and it is unlikely that the building will ever be finished.

Torre David accommodates over 750 families that squatted the building in 2007 and turned it into a huge informal vertical community. The self-organized ‘vertical slum’ is a one-of-a kind urban phenomenon that shines a very interesting light on urban development and its social aspects. Urban Think Tank devoted the great book Torre David: Informal Vertical Communities to the tower, which is one of the world’s largest informal communities. -- The Pop-Up City

Source: The New York Times

Residential Tower, Atlantic Yards, Brooklyn, New York designed by SHoP Architects

....the world’s tallest prefabricated, or modular, building, a 32-story residential tower at Flatbush Avenue and Dean Street. It is the first of 15 planned modular buildings at the $4.9 billion Atlantic Yards site; some are to rise to 50 stories. -- The New York Times

Construction Halted on SHoP Architects’ Atlantic Yards Housing Project -- ArchDaily