PSFS: Continuous Ambiguity

Thesis question : How can the removal of the suggested organization of a skyscraper by way of fundamental structural (grid) manipulation and programmatic relocation result in a rationally functional building while producing a variety of open programmatically diverse public spaces nested throughout the vertical tower?
Traditionally a tower of any sort relies on a large foundation of spaces and structure to fulfill public interaction and structural necessities. However both of these can be rethought and manipulated in such a fashion so that the majority of the suggested foundation of a tower can be removed and given back to the city. This then allows for the reintroduction of public spaces to occupy the returned space.
The relocation and opening of the suggested foundation however comes a great cost. One that’s ripple effect begins to engulf the project and takes on a life of its own. By removing a large portion of ground floor connection (Building footprint, structure, etc) the structural strategy quickly begins to rely heavily on columns or Pilotis to support the rest of the building from crashing down. These Pilotis at the instance they are deployed start to take on a more visual and literal interpretation of the tower’s legs simply because they are exposed and therefore embed a sense of hierarchal meaning to their placement, engagement and overall effect on the rest of the tower. Their shifts and placement begins to speak of movement in the same way that the classical art pose contrapposto conveys movement and embodies a sense of time in an otherwise static object.
Once the Pilotis are shifted they break past the original building facade to create a new space nested with the rest of the building. This new space formed by the structural deformation and manipulation demands to be something different as itself is different from the normative field of office space and structural grids. The demand is granted and creates a network between the public spaces all though the building. At their source they act as legs and point to the open atriums that lay above. Once they pull the facade out the atrium is formed, there by deforming the normative grid and creates a new, now tertiary structural system which lies only within the nested atriums.