A speculative project, the ?New York Super Slender? created by RB Systems, is a futuristic skyscraper that presents a potential new tower typology. With ever-diminishing land space in major cities and a vastly growing population, the project rises to the challenge of optimizing occupancy in a constrained and dense city center.

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A speculative project, the ?New York Super Slender? created by RB Systems, is a futuristic skyscraper that presents a potential new tower typology. With ever-diminishing land space in major cities and a vastly growing population, the project rises to the challenge of optimizing occupancy in a constrained and dense city center.

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The tower has an approximately 30-meter x 30-meter footprint and rises 400 meters into the sky. It explores the elimination of perimeter columns, instead replacing their structural purpose with a series of steel cables that run and twist along the height of the tower. The cables are anchored in a deep foundation and tied back to the core at the upper structural ring, creating a force of surface tension that can be likened to the way candy is held in a wrap when the ends are twisted. This use of steel cables creates a solution which is light, yet sturdy.
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Rustem Baishev of RB Systems describes his design method as a conception of architecture as a field of systems engineering, not a...