Architects and developers are constantly proposing taller and taller buildings and battling height restrictions to raise cityscapes, but one company took the idea even farther - to space, actually.
New York-based architecture firm Clouds Architecture Office came up with an extravagant conceptual building system that doesn’t start from the ground up, but rather from the sky down by suspending a tower from an orbiting asteroid.
The proposal plans on holding a skyscraper onto a large asteroid with a high-strength cable, and it would orbit between North and South America on a daily loop. The tower would be built out of Dubai due to the low cost of the construction - almost one fifth the cost of New York construction.
To conceptualize Analemma, how the skyscraper is named, Curbed stated that “Clouds AO directed their thought to the European Space Agency’s Rosetta mission, that made it possible to land on a spinning comet, and NASA’s proposed Asteroid Redirect Mission that would make it possible to capture and redirect the orbit of an asteroid.”
The firm states that Analemma would be powered by solar panels located higher up on the tower, and that water would be filtered and recycled from condensate captured from rainwater and clouds. According to Dezeen, the lower portion of the building would include offices and apartments, while the top portion would hold religious establishments or funerary services.
The tower would arrive in New York during office hours, and people would be able to parachute down to land. Alternatively, large drones could also be used to get people on and off the building.
Curious to see how it would look? Check out more photos below to understand more about this mind-boggling concept.
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