Proposal for a vertical city to be located in the centre of Moscow. The program is differentiated between cultural program (e.g. artist studios, football stadium, church, dormitory…) and economic program (e.g. stock exchange, office blocks, commercial facilities…). The lack of space resulted in a vertical arrangement of the program within the perimeter of the Hotel Rossija. The stacking of entire program typologies resembles a Vertical City rather than a conventional high-rise building.
The primary infrastructure system (UPWAY) works on an urban scale to fulfil the amount of 40.000 people circulating through the vertical city. Plugged into the Moscow Metro system, the UPWAY opens a new district in the heart of Moscow. Furthermore, horizontal layers - comparable to squares or marketplaces in the traditional city – function as nodes to distribute the people by means of elevators and escalators to their final destination.