Asymptote Architecture principles Hani Rashid and Lise Anne Couture present in this article the launch of the Velo Towers, within the Dreamhub development in the Yongsan District of Seoul, Korea. Asymptote's project is designed as an integral part of the master plan accommodating several new projects that are situated along the newly planned Yongsan Park. Neighbouring projects include MVRDV's Cloud Towers, the Cross Towers by BIG Architects and Project R6 by REX. The Velo Towers are composed as a dynamic arrangement of stacked and rotated volumes that are a formal and programmatic counterpoint to the conventional extrusion of massing that exemplifies the supertall as a building type. By breaking down the scale and massing of the two distinct towers into interconnected circular and oblong volumes, the Velo project proposes an alternative architectural and urbanistic response to the repetitive and monolithic austerity of conventional tower design.
