Description
A visionary complex, the first in the United States to combine living, working, and leisure. “Marina City“ was to become a “city within the city“ that would be alive 24 hours a day. In addition to two apartment towers, the development contains an office complex, theaters (cinemas), several restaurants, retail stores, etc., and a pier where yachts and boats can dock.
The apartment towers are a “stacked city“ themselves: the first fifteen floors are conceived as spiraling ramps and reserved for parking, followed by forty apartment floors above, wrapped around a central core, which houses the lift and building services. The dynamic segmental plan of the 1–3-room apartments leads from the narrow entrance hallway past dressing room, bathroom and kitchen, straight to the glass facades with wide balconies and the views they offer.
Drawings
Floor Plan Diagram, scale 1:500
Typical floor plan
1-3-room apartment, scale 1:200
Cross section
Photos
Exterior View
Originally published in: Oliver Heckmann, Friederike Schneider (eds.), Floor Plan Manual Housing, fourth revised and expanded edition, Birkhäuser, 2011.