As an example around 1924 1925 el lissitzky came up with the idea of horizontal skyscrapers.
El lissitzky cloud irons floor plan.
He termed them wolkenbugel or cloud irons.
With the line of three crane houses in cologne s rheinauhafen loosely based on el lissitzky s utopian cloud irons dating from 1924 a new typology of skyscraper has been created.
El lissitzky s cloud iron 1924 lissitzky s vision for this ultra futuristic design was a series of eight lightweight horizontal skyscrapers.
The already completed crane house 1 provides the public on the rhine bank promenade not only with the classical plaza in from of a cubic tower.
With its dynamic form and in.
The floor plan of the tower is divided into three areas with an 18 meter mast to the upper end.
The blueprints for the new horizontal skyscrapers are unique because the structures will float 35 meters in the air on metal legs reminiscent of el lissitzky s 1924 wolkenbügel cloud irons.
In 1923 1925 el lissitzky proposed and developed the idea of horizontal skyscrapers they are known as cloud irons a seties of 8 structures was intended to mark the major intersections of the boulevard ring in moscow method.
Spatial balance is the contrast of vertical and horisontal tensions.
Use more old school layout techniques.
Sep 2 2013 howtobegood.
El lissitzky design for his cloud hanger project 1925 what a great perspective and revolutionary design.
Are making plans which are based solely on aesthetic speculation and are therefore totally unfit for practical.
The creation of an office complex that would respond to the demands of the new times within the context of the old moscow urban fabric was the basic idea leading to the concept of the so called sky hook.
He even made very detailed renderings of them depicting.
Riverside tower cranes the line of three crane houses in cologne s rheinauhafen loosely based on el lissitzky s utopian cloud irons dating from 1924 a new typology of skyscraper has been created.
The already completed crane house 1 provides the public on the rhine bank promenade not only with the classical plaza in from of a cubic tower.