Bionic Tower
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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 1,228 metres (4,029 ft) 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.
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- Authorship: Spanish architect: Eloy Celaya, Mª Rosa Cervera, Javier Gómez Pioz.
- Urban Model: Vertical City.
- Inhabitants: 100,000.
- Height: 1,228 m (4,029 ft).
- Stories: 300.
- Communications: 368 elevators (15 m/s, with vertical and horizontal movement).
- Footprint: 133 m (436 ft) x 110 m (361 ft) at base, expanding to 166 m (545 ft) x 133 m (436 ft) max.
- Area: 2,000,000 m² (21,528,000 sq ft).
- Artificial Base Island: 1 km (0.6 mi) diameter.
- Structure: Micro-structured High Strength Concrete (2tones / cm^3 or 1372 MPa).
- Maximum sway: 2.45 m (8 ft) lateral displacement.
- Tech. system: Bionic Vertical Tech. Space.
- Cost: USD $15 billion+.
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[edit] External links
- http://www.emporis.com/en/wm/bu/?id=bionictower-hongkong-china
- http://www.bionictower-bvs.com/
- Vertical City project
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