Innovation and Sustainability in the Project of Skyscrapers: A Case Study Focusing an Educational Approach

This paper describes a experiment of proposing the early stages of design of skyscraper, questioning how those mega-structures will interfere over contemporary and future living and respective urban scene. A politic and economical background framed the context but was also flexible enough to not narrow students’ imaginations and decisions. It starts describing the main problems skyscrapers in the 20 th Century, proposing new approaches with new technologies and programmatic interpretations of those structures.