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The interest in this research lies in investigating how differing “species” of tower can work together on the site, responding to each other and the existing conditions, as well as rules we set in terms of program and spatial requirements, to create a cohesive whole while maintaining individual identities and characteristics. The multi-author approach, which demands individuality, will allow each tower to be identifiable on it’s own. Each species of tower will represent the differing combinations of program within the project; for example a residential tower with a commercial lower level would be considered one species while an office tower with an entertainment venue in it’s center would be considered another. Through a study of phenomenology, these individuals will also be seen as a part of the larger complex of the whole site as an urban district within the global site of London. Through carefully chosen viewpoints and view paths, urban vistas will be created and explored. By responding to the surrounding context as well as each other, the project will maintain visual order rather than contributing to what some may call the existing “chaos” of the city.

To further understand our skeleton forms, we analyzed each by breaking them down into their structural component parts. Each skeleton has been analyzed through multiple cross section analyses as well as curvature analysis. Through this research we have gained an understanding of each skeleton which we can now use to assign program and to further develop our urban scheme.

Due to the setup of symmetrical phenomenon in Whole is stretch the geometry too much which may loose the reason of a tower, then we change to use the strategy into part of towers. Also, it makes the tower have freedable bottom and top setting. When the key view point setup. we can adjust the tower geometry by changing a flexible vertex's coordinate and the shape and size of bottom and top part and also the height of the tower. View point from the urban perspective is very important as our grouping tool, to organize our tower direction. This is the series, that was generated by the view, in between 3-4 tower is the best solution to achieve this phenomenological effect. This are the different towers that was generated from the tool, they applied with 3 different operation, with different value.