Skyscrapers made of… silkworms, 1,000 meters below the surface of the ocean and disaster response islands? These are some of the ideas scientists entered in the annual competition organized by the magazine eVolo and it has attracted some of the strangest plans for its “day after tomorrow”. world.
In particular, some architects have made plans skyscrapers that potentially grow vertically and in fact, extend to 1,000 meters below the sea.
Urban Intercropping
In the first place was the Chinese skyscraper called Urban Intercropping. The design uses a sophisticated planting system that can maintain air quality in metropolitan areas.
Architects have suggested using specific plants that absorb excess carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and produce the most oxygen. So even people who “suffocate” in the city can enjoy fresh air.
The Streamline Concerto
In second place was found Streamline Concertoa series of buildings which can be long, sprawling structures that extend in any direction on the ground.
“Self-replicating” structures and disaster hotels
This strange ‘self-replicating’ hotel, by Iran-based HSH Design Studio, has been inspired by silkworm cocoons.
“The general geometry of the hotel skyscraper is derived from an upright silkworm cocoon-like cube that swings to create varied and experimental spatial qualities,” the team wrote.
Disaster Response Island
This apocalypse-proof hotel was designed with the Japanese model in mind, resistant to major natural disasters.
Chinese designers Yinuo Zhang, Jialu Huang Binbin Ye and Ya Yu said the “mobile regeneration island” can move in real time depending on the location of the disaster.
The skyscraper is not just houses, or a hotel, but a whole city with schools, supermarkets and government administration rooms.
Residents travel through the tower using an elevator system where they can travel from the large gardens at the top to the island areas at the bottom.
