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SA30 SDK PowerTower, Lisboa,
Portugal, 2004 research
Carlos Sant’Ana with Isabella Rusconi, Inês Melo and consultants
Paulo Pedro, Miguel Louro
Urban towers have the power to be iconic. Multi purpose spaces stacked and compiled in one single piece. Beside the interior uses of the tower, the envelope skin - the Skinergy façade - has a tremendous potential as Input and Output surface. It can be solar sensitive to be energy efficient, and have light pixels in order to communicate with the surrounding. Being an icon in the urban landscape it is a natural meeting point, that in the communication age we live in can be used to transmit e-mails, regular SMS or third generation MMS public messages from individuals to individuals, a kind of P2P approach to public communication.
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