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 Cervera & Pioz. It would have a main tower approximately 1200 meters 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.
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- Authorship: Eloy Celaya, Mª Rosa Cervera, Javier Gómez Pioz.
- Urban Model: Vertical City.
- Inhabitants: 100,000.
- Height: 1,228 m.
- Stories: 300.
- Communications: 368 elevators (15 m/s).
- Footprint: 133 m x 100 m at base, expanding to 166 m x 133 m max.
- Area: 2,000,000 m².
- Artificial Base Island: 1 km diameter.
- Structure: Micro-structured High Strength Concrete (2,000 kg/cm² or 196 MPa).
- Maximum sway: 2.45 m lateral displacement.
- Tech. system: Bionic Vertical Tech. Space.
- Cost: USD $15 billion+.
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http://www.bionictower-bvs.com/
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