Vortex
Vortex Housing is a 300 unit housing development for Columbus Ohio designed by Kivi Sotamaa in collaboration with Gabriel Esquivel in 2007. The project includes a bowling alley and spa.
The project aspires to produce a space of urban life and passion. The builing is located between highway and river. On the urban edge, the geometry of the building picks up on the curves of the highway producing a stepped landscape of terasses and roofgardens. On the river side the curves turn into vortices - cylindrical pavillion like structures which move down is scale articulate an intimate courtyard landscape.
The sensibility of the movement the geometry produces is reinfoced by a directional pattern on the skin made of printed glass [Dupont Expressions] and laser cut aluminum panels.
The project aspires to produce a space of urban life and passion. The builing is located between highway and river. On the urban edge, the geometry of the building picks up on the curves of the highway producing a stepped landscape of terasses and roofgardens. On the river side the curves turn into vortices - cylindrical pavillion like structures which move down is scale articulate an intimate courtyard landscape.
The sensibility of the movement the geometry produces is reinfoced by a directional pattern on the skin made of printed glass [Dupont Expressions] and laser cut aluminum panels.