2024-11-21T14:42:28-05:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/145746231/cloud-harvesting-skyscraper-renderings-of-proposed-new-sustainable-tokyo-development Julia Ingalls 2016-01-14T18:20:00-05:00 >2018-01-30T06:16:04-05:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/rm/rmdsb23l38r3y4rg.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><p>What's new(ish) in large-scale, sustainable development? Well, the Next Tokyo 2045 project is in the running. Described by <a href="http://archinect.com/news/article/118200781/2014-was-the-tallest-year-by-far-for-skyscrapers-ctbuh-finds" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">CTBUH</a> in a journal paper as "a mile-high tower rooted in intersecting ecologies," the 12.5 square kilometer project is designed to be a protective barrier against coastal erosion, a mid-bay transit hub, and an experiment in dense urban vertical development via a 1,600-meter high "Sky Mile" tower and several smaller mixed-use towers.</p><p><img title="" alt="" src="http://cdn.archinect.net/images/650x/55/55oushy09k1zfdka.jpg"></p><p><img title="" alt="" src="http://cdn.archinect.net/images/650x/wr/wruw2a0cv7kxc4ag.jpg"></p><p>Developed as part of a collaboration between <a href="http://archinect.com/firms/cover/776/kohn-pedersen-fox-associates" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates</a>&nbsp;and <a href="http://archinect.com/firms/cover/89522305/leslie-e-robertson-associates-lera" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Leslie E. Robertson Associates</a>, the design was initially unveiled back in February of 2015, and features proposed elements including an articulated facade that enables "cloud-harvesting" as a means of collecting water for the project dwellers, solar power, and the "capture of kinetic energy from trains running across the bay" as a means of powering mechanical systems.</p><p><img title="" alt="" src="http://cdn.archinect.net/images/650x/g6/g6ien3v7375u24ml.jpg"></p><p><img title="" alt="" src="http://cdn.archinect.net/images/650x/3z/3zzilwo32to49afj.jpg"></p><p><img title="" alt="" src="http://cdn.archinect.net/images/650x/e0/e0637dxgdilevbdm.jpg"></p><p>The project hopes to house roughly a half million people.&nbsp;</p><p><img title="" alt="" src="http://cdn.archinect.net/images/650x/7t/7tft051fdz650byy.jpg"></p>