Less (Space) is more (Money): magazzini multipiano e torri della logistica in Asia Orientale e Sud Pacifico

The exponential development of e-commerce over the past few years, combined with the growing demand for shorter delivery times by users, is leading some logistics companies to develop innovative building typologies, also inspired by futuristic examples observed in particular contexts and conditions. Among the latter, multi-storey warehouses and logistics towers, which have been widespread in Asia for some years, have undoubtedly proven to be the most interesting as, unlike traditional warehouses, they are developed within an urban centre, and compensate for the limited surface area by rising vertically. These proximity complexes, which originally developed primarily in the Hong Kong area where the morphology, in some ways, almost automatically leads to vertical development, have the undoubted advantage of placing the retailer in exceptional physical proximity to the end user (who in most cases resides within a large urban centre). The Multi-storey warehouses, completely unknown in the West until a few years ago, have long been popular in the regions of East Asia, in particular in the more developed markets such as Japan, South Korea, Singapore and Hong Kong, where the population density and limited land availability made it immediately successful.