Bionic Tower

Bionic Tower

The Bionic Tower is a proposed "vertical city", an extremely large building designed for human habitation, designed by Spanish architects Eloy Celaya, and Mª Rosa Cervera and Javier Gómez Pioz. It would have a main tower convert|1228|m|ft|0 high, with 300 stories that would house about 100,000 people.

During his administration Xu Kuangdi, former mayor of Shanghai, expressed an interest in the concept for the city. The city of Hong Kong is also interested in the project.

pecifications

* Authorship: Spanish architect: Eloy Celaya, Mª Rosa Cervera, Javier Gómez Pioz.
* Urban Model: Vertical City.
* Inhabitants: 100,000.
* Height: convert|1228|m|ft|0|abbr=on.
* Stories: 300.
* Communications: 368 elevators (15 m/s, with vertical and horizontal movement).
* Footprint: convert|133|m|ft|0|abbr=on x convert|110|m|ft|0|abbr=on at base, expanding to convert|166|m|ft|0|abbr=on x convert|133|m|ft|0|abbr=on max.
* Area: convert|2000000|m2|sqft|-3|abbr=on.
* Artificial Base Island: convert|1|km|mi|1|abbr=on diameter.
* Structure: Micro-structured High Strength Concrete (2tones / cm^3 or 1372 MPa).
* Maximum sway: convert|2.45|m|ft|0|abbr=on lateral displacement.
* Tech. system: Bionic Vertical Tech. Space.
* Cost: USD $15 billion+.

ee also

* Sky City 1000
* Arcology
* Bionic architecture

References

* [http://www.torrebionica.com/index-english/index-english.html torrebionica.com]
* [http://www.you.com.au/news/486.htm you.com.au]
* [http://mc2000.arch.hku.hk/Bionic_Tower/Bionic_Tower_1.html arch.hku.hk]

External links

* [http://x-4.narod.ru/anti/index.html Vertical City project]
* [http://inventions.110mb.com/space/bionic-tower.html The vertical city bionic tower]


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