This project is from my fall 2013 semester at Penn. The aim was to create a city within a megaform. The massing of the Sears (now Willis) Tower in Chicago was manipulated into the aggregated figure shown below. Two central architectural questions guided this design:

What is the relationship of part to whole?
What is the relationship of building to ground?

Here, the 9 tubes that comprise the Sears tower are rearranged end-to-end. This unbroken form weaves around itself and bifurcates at connection points. These junctions are home to piranesian centers that join the distant tubes, much like Ponte Vecchio in Florence — what is meant for transportation functions doubly.