Some designs have livestock and forests on the top level, with residential units floating just below the surface and commercial spaces deeper underwater.
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Currently architecture firms in Malaysia, Netherlands, Belgium and of course the Japanese are working on concepts of how we can build these floating cities plus make them completely eco friendly. and produce its own food through farming, aquaculture, hydroponics, etc. It would generate its own energy through wave, wind, current, solar, etc. An oceanscraper which is also known as a seascraper or waterscraper is a proposed large building which will function as a floating city. This is an avenue being pursued by numerous architecture firms, although no one is actually in the process of actually building one yet. As an answer to this, there is now a push towards finding ways to live in/on the ocean with one of the latest ideas being ‘Oceanscrapers’. Given that 71% of the earth’s surface is oceans, and if climate change has its way then that number is going to increase the old adage in real estate that “we are not making any new land” is ringing closer and closer to home. It is very difficult to get any recent news on this with most sources coming from 2011, whether this means the earthscraper will only ever be a Mexican pipe dream, who knows
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The design also includes a series of earth lobbies that would store plants and trees with the intention of improving air quality and raising the morale of residents of the subterranean building.
The cost of building Mexico’s rabbit hole is projected at $800m with Suarez conceding that getting natural light and fresh air down to the lower floors will be a problem and he is investigating a “system of fiber optics” that could deliver sunlight from the surface. With the next 20 floors being residential, then commercial and office buildings. The first 10 floors are set aside for a cultural centre and museum. There would then be a 300m deep inverted pyramid which would allow natural light to get to the depths of the building. The plan is for a massive 240m x 240m glass roof with a huge Mexican flag above, being Mexico City’s main public square. “There is very little room for any more buildings in Mexico City, and the law says we cannot go above eight stories, so the only way is down” explains Esteban Suarez, co-founder of BNKR Arquitectura, the firm behind the proposals. When you can’t go up, go down - well at least that was the theory when Mexican Architect came up with the concept of the 65 storey below ground inverted pyramid being dubbed the “Earth Scraper” Residents in the town have everything they need and could literally spend weeks indoors. Whilst these buildings are still the work of science fiction, the model is actually working on a much smaller scale in Whittier, Alaska where nearly every single one of the towns 214 residents all reside in a 14 storey building that also serves as a post office, library, council chambers and includes an underground tunnel to connect to the school. Whilst the technical term of an arcology means that we already have some existing arcologies - research stations in Antarctica and even technically the Las Vegas strip whose series of underground tunnels connect the 3 mile strip meaning one might never have to go outside and even the experimental Masdar city on the outskirts of Abu Dhabi fits the criteria - the type of arcology I am most excited about is the city in the building concept.įor example the 366m tall New Orleans Arcology Habitat (NOAH) which could house 40,000 residents and sit on the banks of the Mississippi, designed in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, with the ability to float in the event of another hurricane or flood.
From Tokyo to New Orleans, plans have been submitted for gigantic city style buildings that will provide everything a resident needs without ever needing to leave the building. For anyone who has seen the Judge Dredd movie, you know too well the potential downside for this type of living, however given cities are running out of space, this idea seems to be popping up more and more and I believe it is only a matter of time until it becomes a reality. Also known as Cityscrapers, arcologies are essentially entire cities crammed into a single high population density megastructure.
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