New York Horizon

Population growth and high rents have forced more and more residents to move to the edge of the city. The horizontal spread of the city makes it difficult for most people in the main activity space on the periphery of the city to enjoy the natural landscape of Central Park conveniently. Moreover, limited to the relatively narrow street grid in the city, these buildings are often high and narrow in form, and tend to be vertically distributed in function. As a result, there is a lack of horizontal connection between buildings, and only a small number of people can really enjoy the landscape of the park. Different from the traditional skyscrapers built vertically upward based on the surface, the "New York Horizontal Line" has found a large span in the central area of New York, which is surrounded by horizontal "skyscrapers" on all sides, by boldly imagining a sinking Central Park surrounded by horizontal "skyscrapers". The new foundation of the composite building-the cliff. The wall-like structure, which surrounds the new park on all sides and is 7 miles long and 300 meters deep, will create 18 square kilometers of usable indoor space at a thickness of 30 meters. While including functional zones such as apartments, shops, museums, libraries, etc., it ensures that all indoor spaces and natural landscapes have equal visual connections regardless of floor height and orientation. After nearly 3 square kilometers of soil covering its epidermis was removed, the Central Park, once filled flat, showed deeper vertical spatial changes and a more diverse natural environment. Finally, the "New York Horizon" uses the mirror skin with high reflectivity to map the mirror image of the entire park on four giant walls, breaking through the physical boundary of the landscape, and creating an optical illusion that the natural landscape extends to the end of the horizon infinitely, so that the observer Even if you are in the steel jungle of Manhattan, you can also experience a seemingly endless natural world. While surrounding the landscape, architecture does not try to suppress the landscape. On the contrary, the only purpose of simply building the skin is to hide itself, reflect nature, and finally create a mirage-like dreamlike scene and poetic experience of infinite space.