Building Investment (March-April 2022)

Concepts & Designs
Artist impression.
(Source: amazingarchitecture.com)
Artist impression.
(Source: amazingarchitecture.com)
THE FLUIDITY 2.0 HIGH-RISE
to blend in with the Swiss Alps
The Fluidity 2.0 High-Rise is a mega luxury hotel
and office hybrid tower, created to integrate and
complement the Swiss Alps landscape with a new
“organic” architecture.
Designed by Mariana Cabugueira Custodio
dos Santos, an architect and urban designer
from Portugal, the tower stands at 250 metres in
height and boasts 1,200 square metres of average floor area.
The magnifient tower aims to blend its twirling form and
open-air spaces with the surrounding Swiss landscape. The highrise’s
iconic semi-open levels on the ground floor span over the
surrounding nature with the goal to extend the green and fresh
environment to the upper levels of the luxury Hotel and office.
The first five storeys serve as multi-level public lobbies,
namely the reception areas; open-air meeting rooms; bars; and
a library. These public areas are semi-open to the surrounding
landscape, framing the Alp’s mountains with an arching tower
facade and stretching across the ground pools and green drop-off
areas.
The panoramic lifts are the centrepiece of these five openair
floors, connecting all public ground and top level, offering a
360-degree view from the Tower Core to the Swiss Alps.
The Tower is split by four main core units, symmetrically
disposed and connected by a mega twirling glass facade. The
twisting facade is supported by a metal space frame structure,
arching on each four entrances, and subsequently tied to the
tower vertical main structure.
The top of the tower displays a three-storey-high sky garden
and winter terraces, with colours and flowers flourishing all year
around and a high-end restaurant.
(Source: amazingarchitecture.com)
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