Eternal-AX06: The Future of Kinetic Architecture and Climate-Responsive Skyscrapers
A kinetic skyscraper that breathes, filters, and powers itself — redefining sustainable high-rise architecture for future cities.
A Living Tower: Redefining Urban Sustainability
In the evolving landscape of global cities, Eternal-AX06 emerges as a symbol of kinetic architecture — a living, breathing structure that interacts dynamically with its environment. Designed by Gourab Das, this People’s Choice Award entry of Alter envisions a skyscraper that not only coexists with nature but also regenerates it.
Rising elegantly from the urban coastline, the 120-storey tower integrates wind, water, and solar energy systems into its structural and façade design. The building functions as an urban purifier, addressing one of the most critical challenges of modern metropolises — pollution.
Kinetic Façade: The Skin That Breathes
At the heart of Eternal-AX06 lies its kinetic façade system, a high-performance, solar-responsive shell equipped with mechanical and environmental sensors. The façade panels expand and contract according to heat and wind conditions, optimizing natural ventilation and daylight. This ever-shifting geometry gives the tower its distinct identity — a structure in motion, continuously adapting to its surroundings.
The facade’s energy-harvesting panels double as wind turbines and solar receptors, ensuring the building generates a consistent supply of renewable energy. Every façade movement contributes to the building’s larger goal: minimizing energy waste and maximizing comfort.
Breathing for the City: The Vertical Filtration System
Beyond its aesthetic dynamism, the tower performs a vital environmental function. Using vacuum suction at its base, polluted air from the city is drawn into the structure, passing through multiple layers of bio-filtration chambers, green walls, and water pools. The system captures dust and toxins, filters them naturally, and releases purified air from the top.
This process transforms the skyscraper into an urban lung, breathing life into congested cityscapes and symbolizing a new era of eco-responsive architecture.
Cultural Symbolism Meets Future Technology
Rooted in mythology and symbolism, the concept illustrates divine figures interacting with the tower — an artistic metaphor that blends spiritual wisdom with modern sustainability. The visuals depict ancient gods aiding humanity through architecture, reinforcing the idea that progress need not come at the expense of harmony with nature.
The result is a fusion of art, ecology, and engineering — where culture informs innovation, and mythology becomes a guide to sustainable urban futures.
Urban Integration and Functionality
The skyscraper divides its functions across commercial and residential blocks, seamlessly connected through public plazas and kinetic canopies. These canopies extend toward the city like architectural roots, housing retail and social spaces that blur the boundaries between land and structure.
At its base, pools and reflective water surfaces moderate microclimates, cooling the air drawn for purification and creating a sensory connection to the ocean. The helipad above serves as both a transportation hub and an observation platform, symbolizing the vertical continuity from earth to sky.
Eternal-AX06: A Vision Beyond Sustainability
Rather than merely reducing environmental harm, Eternal-AX06 proposes regenerative architecture — a system that restores balance through interaction. It envisions skyscrapers not as isolated monuments of progress, but as dynamic organisms participating in ecological healing.
Through kinetic motion, renewable energy harvesting, and atmospheric cleansing, the project embodies the future of urban architecture — one that breathes, adapts, and thrives in synergy with the planet.
Project Credits
Project: Eternal-AX06 Architect: Gourab Das
Award: People’s Choice Award Entry, Alter Competition
