The global engineering firm envisions a "smart" building that will plug into "smart" urban infrastructure and cater to an increasingly dense and technology-savvy urban population. — planetizen.com
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Fantastic graphics.
Absolutely love this 'out-of-the-box' designing! So how "near-future" is near future anyway??
when the u.s. converts to the metric system
I mentioned this elsewhere - but the modular building components is current tech - and replacing whole chunks of the facade is pretty stupid - it doesn't work. we learned this 40 years ago. and the underground transit hub? unless money ceases to exist in the future, that is never happening - I'd look to inventive surface transit.
I'm a little perplexed by this proposal - one the one hand it assembles all the ideas into one building (which should be larger city-wide infrastructure, not in a single building), but it's a little too "plug-in city" for me - as in verging on completely unrealistic and incredibly naive about how the city really functions.
There are a handful of good things in there, but what gives this away is the ubiquitous "community center" on the ground floor - this is first-year architecture student stuff.
radical? maybe helpful to post in a public forum to educate people about possible green technologies but as far as the design is concerned it doesn't amount to much more than a checklist. agreed with toasteroven. just because you've packed it all in doesn't make it good. also, just because you say a building does something, doesn't mean it does.
I know this is intended to minimize its carbon footprint, but if it's sucking up CO2 and converting it to O2, wouldn't we be suffocating trees? Just sayin'...