All of us have a few basic needs and one of those is a roof over our heads. As the world world grows, people in most have been migrating towards cities as they offer more opportunities and jobs. But even inside cities, people have this internal migration towards highly dense living arrangements.
Well these two building proposals will set new standards in a modern habitat.
CRYSTAL ISLAND – A 1500 ft. tall, ‘City within a city’ to be completed in Moscow.
X-SEED 4000 – A 13,000 ft. Manga-esque, Japanese utopian vision.
This type of building is known as an “Arcology“; Enormous habitats (hyper-structures) of extremely high human Population density. They are supposed to be self contained cities, housed within a single building. I thought that this type of thing only existed in William Gibsons reality.. but it is coming to a reality near you.
Rad. With the move away from stupid oil burnin’, a-rab killin’, terror fightin’ suburbian living promoted by our american ‘friends’ this type of living will be the only way of functioning. For some reason it really appeals to me, maybe my teenage love for anime has conditioned me to think its cool…