A one-million-square-metre tower can't stay agile if its blueprint is a static snapshot that starts ageing the moment it's drawn. This phase of HB-01 asks how raw geometry becomes live data, and answers it capsule by capsule.
Context
IAAC · Barcelona
Year
2026
Stack
Grasshopper · Speckle · Computational design · BIM
Brief
Hyperbuilding One is a data-driven ecosystem that achieves seamless connectivity between Static and Kinetic spaces through an optimized large-scale integrated environment.
01 · System
The tower splits into two systems in constant dialogue: a permanent infrastructural body carrying the skeletal and circulatory logic, and a series of hexagonal plug-in capsules (the Abyss, the Groot, the Recycler, the Boss) that exchange air, water and energy. Hexagonal packing keeps it gapless and maximises sunlight.
02 · Metadata
Generated through the Grasshopper and Speckle pipeline, a capsule is never just a 3D model: it's a container for over ten metadata points, among them programmatic function, precise weight and embodied carbon, and its spatial relationship to the core and to its neighbours.
03 · Validation
Space utilisation against the one-million-square-metre target, spatial proximity between interdependent functions, and the exact energy demand of each cluster, validated in real time rather than assumed, and checked against the city below through shadow and daylight analysis so the tower stays a good neighbour.
