Multi Apartment Tower — architectural project by Parallel Group

Residential

Multi Apartment Tower

Skopje, North Macedonia

Vertical Street

Landings are widened and daylit at every third level, which gives the tower somewhere for neighbours to meet that is not the lift lobby. The alternative was conventional and would have worked; this one works better for the people who are actually in the building.

Multi Apartment Tower — full-width view 1
Multi Apartment Tower — full-width view 2
Multi Apartment Tower — detail view 1

This is a residential tower where the shared circulation is treated as a street rather than a corridor in the only form that counts. The intent survives the construction, which is where most of it is usually lost.

Multi Apartment Tower — full-width view 3

Here, landings are widened and daylit at every third level, which gives the tower somewhere for neighbours to meet that is not the lift lobby. The tolerance in that junction is tighter than the rest of the building, and it is the one place the extra work was worth it.

Multi Apartment Tower — detail view 2
Multi Apartment Tower — closing view

“It is a residential tower where the shared circulation is treated as a street rather than a corridor. That sentence is the whole brief, and the building answers it.”

- Parallel Group Architects

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