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Zigging When the World Is Zagging
We humans continue to sprawl across the planet's surface, bulldozing the forests and mountains in our way. But it doesn't have to be that way, argues Timelinks, a sustainable design firm in the United Arab Emirates. The firm's Ziggurat is "a building-city where people, nature, and modern technology are united" in a single structure measuring about one square mile at the base, which the company says could house up to 1 million people.
Residents would commute from their living quarters to their jobs within the Ziggurat using a public transit system that's part elevator, part tram. Clean energy will be produced in sundry ways, including power generators that harness the kinetic energy of sewage flowing down through pipes. And when residents get tired of the Ziggurat, they can venture beyond its walls to the unspoiled ecosystems surrounding it
South Korea's Green Power
Center
Since the turn of the millennium, the South Korean government has adopted a master planning strategy in which "power centers" packed with housing and offices are built in desirable locations to encourage new towns to grow up around them. For an entirely new town 20 miles from Seoul, the Dutch architecture firm MVRDV has proposed a network of hill-like structures that will merge harmoniously with the surrounding landscape of lakes and forests.
The new power center of Gwanggyo would feature terraced buildings with a garden on the outer edge of every floor, giving all residents access to outdoor space and growing things. The gardens will also give a green sheen to the self-sufficient town.
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Greening the Desert
Exploration Architecture liked the seawater greenhouse concept, but it just wasn't ambitious enough. So the firm came up with an even more spectacular proposal: a solar power plant operating in conjunction with a seawater greenhouse in the world's largest desert, which would provide clean energy while also irrigating a patch of the Sahara.
As they imagine it, the Sahara Forest Projectwould be situated in a low-lying coastal area where seawater could be easily piped in. The water would be used in seawater greenhouses and a concentrated solar power operation, in which mirrors focus sunlight onto water boilers to push steam-powered turbines. Distilled wastewater would used to irrigate the surrounding areas, creating lush, palm tree oases where barren desert used to be.
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