The City Zipper

Name: Yang Tian

Nationality: China

Institution / Company: Yale School of Architecture

As a strategy to create vertical communications and greenery within highly urbanized areas, this project is an opportunity for an “in-between” intervention and demonstration in a densely populated city.

The objective of this new addition is to provide residents with additional common properties and agriculture possibilities with minimal square footage. It provides a new metabolism for tall residential buildings and makes the city healthy and vibrate. It aims to provide a “lung” to create apertures and greenery for concrete blocks.