Please enlarge the above thumb for details. Personally, living underground like this seems to be terribly unhealthy and claustrophobic to me. The thought of living on recycled air is rather a turn off. But that is what living beside the ocean does to one! This sort of "structure" creates the perfect sunless environment suitable for vampires both real and wannabe but truly, is not made for living creatures.
How fragile is life underground?
Dependent upon machinery for air and water.
Do these creators and designers really foresee a future world of mole people?
By Kevin Hall
September 29, 2011
The folks over at Mexican architecture group BNKR Arquitectura call
this thing an "earthscraper," and the reason why should be obvious:
it's a monstrous, beautiful, 65-story inverted skyscraper that hides a mini city underground.
Designed to be built smack-dab in the
center of Mexico City, BNKR's Earthscraper wouldn't ruin the skyline there
(though, really, who would object to something that looks like this?) and is
designed in such a way that it would incorporate Mexico's history in its
design.
The top ten floors ~ which, here, would be the "bottom"
ten ~ is a museum and cultural center dedicated to the Aztecs. Below that
you've got retail space, then apartments and finally, deep underground,
businesses.
Because, you know, that's where business do their best work. It all terminates some 300
meters below the surface.
Our favorite detail: the interior of the structure is actually
hollowed out, and there are bridges that extend out into the center of it so
you can look down. Think the Grand Canyon's Skywalk.
We've got plenty more for you down in the gallery below, but this
gorgeous cross-section deserves its own spot, and will let you see how the
structure breaks down by the floor.
Y'know...HG Wells predicted this. I think they will call the inhabitants "Morlocks".
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Whoa, crazy! The link to the Umbrella Corporation in Resident Evil scares me! That was the first video game I ever really got into when I was a kid, and it's disturbing stuff...is what lies ahead? I sure hope not!
ReplyDeleteI agree Skeptikos. My first thought was of the pyramid at the Louvre. It actually also goes underground into a pyramid and I have always felt that this power was extreme. The fact that there are triangles and hexagons here could be due to simple physics and strength, but no matter, the whole thing sounds/looks like a step into hell. Just so you know, there are other such projects around including one in Arizona!
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