Recently those crazy cats over at Design Observer asked some architects to rethink popular children’s fairy tales in terms of their built structures. For NYC-based firm Guy Nordenson and Associates, the story in question was the Brothers Grimm (and most famous) version of Rapunzel; in particular, its “tower that stood in a forest and had neither a door nor a stairway, but only a tiny little window at the very top.” When asked about the key structural elements, the architects responded, “We were able to meet the Grimms’ strict design requirements by employing a slender tower design of vertical cylindrical stems that are joined by intermittent outrigger beams with a reinforced space at the very top for Rapunzel’s long captivity.” It’ll only be a matter of time before the architects themselves are drawn into the proposal; until then, see the full Rapunzel rendering below. Sketch via Design Obvserver Sketch via Design Observer · House on Chicken Feet, Part 3 [Design Observer via Architizer ] · Philip Johnson, Richard Meier, and FLW Now Star in Classic Fairytale [Curbed National]

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Architecture: Behold the Architect-Designed Version of Rapunzel’s Tower