The model of the present mixed-use high-rise-situation - being a series of stacked plates on top of the other - lacks an appropriate interaction amongst the different programs.
by trying to bring the features of the horizontal CITY model into the VERTICALITY of the high-rise it would gain virtues in terms of higher connectivity, an intermixture of the different programs and a differentiation of the spaces.
an “interior boulevard” not only deformed in plan but also in section, has the potential to break with the original perception of above and below and at the same time hybridises the conventionally segregated high-rise programs: housing, retail, office.
