The burgeoning future of personal airborne transportation is a topic on many minds of late as advancements in aviation technology make the prospect of flying cars and similar vehicles more and more feasible.
Now, HOK is entering its name into a mix with a design for what will be the world’s first flying car racing series. The firm's London-based Sport + Entertainment group will design Airspeeder's first eVTOL electric vehicle racing vertiport structure called Skydeck in an unnamed desert location. A spokesperson with Airspeeder said it would "initiate a new mobility revolution."
A press release described the design, which borrows from years of experience designing for the F1 racing series, as being able to accommodate 10 teams with up to 20 flying race cars.
Racers will be separated from the spectator area below the track in safety-conscious 'airside' zones serviced by retractable landing pads. The design is both modular and evinces a "leave no trace" policy defined by solar-powered infrastructure and virtual tracks that eliminate the need for physical structures and attendant construction waste.
“It is incredibly exciting to design a brand new sports typology," says HOK's Sports + Entertainment director John Rhodes. "Airspeeder challenged us to draw on our decades of expertise designing for F1 and other sporting events while also imagining a physical environment for the future."
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unbelievable, is this for the warlords after the apocalypse?
Is today April Fool's Day?!?
No, they are probably idle (and on crack)
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