Essence by BOMP
ESSENCE Skyscraper by BOMP was chosen
15 honourable mentions. The first place
height modules (30, 60, 90 meters) organise
to be awarded the first place from among
was awarded to BOMP for the project titled
the sequence of the levels in accordance with
480 projects received from the world over.
ESSENCE Skyscraper.
a type of a landscape they host. The tower
is wrapped with semi-transparent façade.
According to the official statement, the
internationally acclaimed jury selected the
Enter the secret garden
It’s goal is to blur the interior view from the
project due to its creative response to the
The idea behind the project was to create
outside while neutralising the horizon from
dynamic conditions of vertical communities.
an audacious theoretical vision of an urban
the visitor’s perspective.
The team of architects from Poland proposed
garden appropriate for rapidly changing
a vertical garden composed of variable
environmental conditions regarding a
natural habitats in a form of a skyscraper.
cityscape. Located in a centre of a dense
By entering the garden, using one of two
urban fabric, eleven natural habitats captured
mammoth ramps, the visitor begins the trip
The competition
Follow the landscape
by the tower would become a mysterious
through diverse complex natural habitats.
The annual eVolo Skyscraper Competition
place open to the public and offering
Starting from an ocean arranged above the
has been run continuingly since 2006. It is
the visitors a wide range of complex and
ground floor topped with the spectacular
an architectural competition focused on the
inspiring experiences.
fish tank, through the jungle thicket - moist,
dense and foggy – the wanderer receives
subject of skyscrapers and raising a question
of the future of vertical communities.
In 2015 year’s edition, the competition jury
formed by Massimiliano Fuksas (principal
Studio Fuksas), Mi chael Hansmeyer
(CAAD group at Swiss Federal Institute of
Technology), Richard Hassell (principal
WOHA), Alvin Huang (principal Synthesis
Design + Architecture), Yong Ju Lee (winner
2014 eVolo Skyscraper Competition),
Wenchai Shi (project manager MVRDV),
Wong Mun Summ (principal WOHA) and
Benedetta Tagliabue (principal EMBT
Miralles Tagliabue) selected 3 winners and
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The structure
sensual attractions on many different levels.
The rectangle-shaped floor plan measures
One by one – the narration written by the
100 by 300 meters. The very core of the
landscapes appear, flourish and finally -
building is an exorbitant system of ramps
implicitly mellow, in order to make a place
and platforms, while the shell is ten meter
for another scene. And so the travel goes
wide belt containing staircases, elevators,
on: a swamp, a dessert, a steppe, a river,
technical facilities, shafts and so on. The body
grasslands, a huge waterfall, mysterious caves
of the building is 630 meters tall and it is
and the rocky mountains. To complete the
divided vertically into eleven stages. They are
range of sensations, there is a glacier at the
interconnected seamlessly. Three additional
top of the tower. These eleven sceneries can
levels are destined for technical facilities.
easily become a playground for a marvellous
They split the tower into four segments, while
adventure, a place for a few days camping or
not interfering with the general space. Three
a route for a wanderer. Any person willing to
take a rest from a daily life is welcome.