njr - nanjing ribbon concept development

some thoughts about a conceptual project of my own I've been working up since may, called the nanjing new gateway - ribbon scheme. The concept was developed based on the notion that, as a retail building at its base, there needs to be an architectural device for inviting people into the building and moving them up into the full height of the tower, both physically and visually. It is also an integral 'form-and-structure-making' device for creating interesting internal multi-level open spaces, interconnecting multiple levels of the building with distant quadrants of the site.

Through developing this concept, I have felt that there may be, in it, the essence of developing a 'signature' style of my own - an aesthetic vocabulary that is distinctly my own and comes from a deep, internal source of aesthetic inspiration (whatever that is). In addition, only today did i recognise that this concept has multiple applications that have already been somewhat delineated whilst in my current position. An important revelation in my view.