In a quest for an architecture that can meet the needs of both bodies, the physical and the virtual, Metaforms is formed as a temporal body storage and training machine. It is not trying to keep up, it is trying to bring together many different yet modern features, producing a framework. The new structure is designed as a tool, an infrastructure built through a patchwork of automation technologies to a sustainable future and aimed at eliminating the building’s environmental footprint. A vertical sequence, capable of including even the nonexistent, the one to be created, through an ongoing construction site and an endless narrative of spatial and meaningful expectations. The new structure is designed as a self-sustaining building that teaches its users the ways they can interfere with it, while allowing them to coexist with it. Designed as a dynamic vertical community: a 3D printed multipurpose tower that hosts co-living, co-working, meeting, co-dining, entertainment and green spaces as well as warehouses and workshops.

The new structure addresses and seeks a place in the city of the future. It doesn’t have a specific plot of land, it can be adapted to any context and can be ‘metaformed’ according to the conditions required. The area being mainly explored is the city’s unassuming airspace, the air; as a right of height and as an intermediate space in vertical extension. The forms are alternated by faithfully following the functions, thereby separating and declaring the multi-functioning nature of the machine-building. In the new Structure the unplanned intermediate space is regarded as the main space of the building turning the whole experience into a pathway, an ascend into the future. The constant ascend is panoramic, allowing a steady and endless reading of the city from above.