BIG construirá el Word Trade Center 2

Después de que fuera diseñado por Norman Foster, el segudo edificio del Word Trade Center, y sin mucha explicación, será el wunderkid Bjarke Ingels y su pandilla quien se encarge de dar forma a este icónico sitio. Con una propuesta no menos icónica: siete volumenes sobrepuestos llegarán a la altura de su vecino el WTC1, (eso sí, sin antena)
Con 79 plantas y 400 metros de alto y casi 300,000m2 se planea que este listo para el 20 aniversario de la tragedia del 11S en 2021.

Mantenido en el más alto secreto hasta ahora, ha sido la revista Wired que tiene la exclusiva quien acaba de darlo a conocer.
De esta manera la oficina danesa no solo consolida el más alto de sus proyectos sino que planta en una de las más emblemáticas localizaciones una de sus creaciones.

“The World Trade Center has this inherent dilemma, that in the public eye it’s a public work. But in fact, what’s going to come up there has to happen on traditional market terms. It is not a cultural palace or a museum or a public building. It’s going to be an office building where people are going to have to work and pay rent. So in that sense, probably more than anything we’ve done, it’s really about turning practicalities into poetry.” _Bjarke Ingels

The Site
Two World Trade Center is located at 200 Greenwich Street and bounded by Church Street to the east, Vesey Street to the north, and Fulton Street to the south. The base of the building utilizes the maximum area of the 56,000-square-foot site.

Transition Between Typologies
Floor plates between the maximum and minimum sizes are optimized to specific tenant needs and requirements.

Following the “Wedge of Light”
2 WTC is aligned along the axis of Daniel Libeskind’s “Wedge of Light” plaza to preserve the views to St. Paul’s Chapel from the Memorial Park.

Leaning Toward 1 WTC
As a result of the stacked columns, the building’s steps are at an angle parallel to the incline of 1 WTC, a nod to the twins that previously stood on the site.

Stepping Terraces to St. Paul’s Chapel
The terraces are heavily planted, creating a vertical succession of the greenery rising from St. Paul’s to the skyline.

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