Friday, February 1, 2008

Pyramid City



The idea of a Pyramid City Arcology in Central-Eastern Europe (Euroarcology) follows footsteps of a project to construct a massive 3-dimensional city-pyramid in the Tokyo Bay (see 5 videos on the right side of this blog). The Japanese project became known as Shimizu Mega-City Pyramid.

Wikipedia - Shimizu Mega-City Pyramid

It is exactly this kind of a city that has to be constructed in Eastern Europe to boost its regional development.



Such a city of the future is a so-called arcology - a construction built along architectural design principles aimed toward creation of enormous habitats (hyperstructures) of extremely high human population density. The word "arcology" derives from a combination of "architecture" and "ecology", and refers to what architect Paulo Soleri calls a "hyperstructure": a self-contained structure containing a variety of residential and commercial facilities, possibly economically self-sufficient.

There are various types of arcologies, but the Shimizu Pyramid City Project in Tokyo is one of the most advanced and incorporates the whole set of innovative solutions: starting from special robots to construct those pyramids...



...till profound transport system.

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