Growing population and increasing demand for natural resources have influenced architectural design in recent years so that designs were...
Growing population and increasing demand for natural resources have influenced architectural design in recent years so that designs were made so that skyscrapers incorporate features from living organisms. Future skyscrapers would become self-contained communities so that it will produce food, water, electricity and resources so that there will be no need to move out and expand elsewhere.
It's the case where organic and nature-inspired forms are based on mathematical algorithms to produce out-of-this-world architectural wonders that will change landscape of cities of the future. Buildings will no longer be monolithic towers but living, breathing organisms that will support life and generate all the things that we need.
Arcology is the new field where architecture and ecology incorporates honeycomb and cellular structure technology to produce flexible yet high-strength buildings. Living structures will become the norm as this Living Mountain project would suggest. The mountain is actually a structure that is envisioned to grace the desert of Taklamakan in northwest China. It will remind you of a James Bond villain's lair.
Unlike the China's man-made islands on the Spratlys, these artificial islands look like alien octopus with tentacles capturing fishes for food, generating hydroelectricity and desalinating seawater. Or how about creating self-sustaining communities like water lilies floating in the Pacific Ocean? Shimizu has came up with a floating city concept that is similar to the former.
How about skyscrapers that resembles the mythical creature Hydra? Conceptualized by Serbian designers Milos Vlastic, Vuk Djordjevic, Ana Lazovic, and Milica Stankovic, these out-of-this-world structures seem to be the most radical architectural concept out there right now.
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