A PLAN for an incredible floating city drifting around the oceans sees futuristic buildings that spiral 1,000 metres underwater.
Aequorea, a fictional water city off the coast of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, is designed to have massive ocean buildings made entirely from 3D-printed plastic waste.
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Designed by award-winning Belgian architect Vincent Callebaut the majestic city has been described as “an oceanscraper printed in 3D from the seventh continent’s garbage.”
The concept behind his vision is to highlight the need to clean up the “disgusting soup of petroleum-based waste” created by plastic in the ocean.
Around 1,000 towers, designed to accommodate 20,000 aquanauts would be built from a algoplast a mixed material of algae and rubbish.
The architect sees the city’s residents adopting a sustainable lifestyle using renewable energy sources and using gill masks to breathe underwater.
Food would be replaced by algae, plankton and molluscs while orchards and vegetable gardens would be placed on conch-like structures.
The main methods of transport would be ships or submarines using algae fuel while the new currency would be the Aequo.
Additionally, sea creatures such as starfish, herring and humpback whales would be used in studies for treatments for cancer, AIDs and heart disease.
The architect presents the idea in the form of a letter from a fictional character named Oceane, 15, addressed to the “people of the land.”
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The letter states that people in the 20th century produced “up to ten times their weight in garbage annually” and “decided to extract value from this disgusting soup of petroleum-based waste by recycling it.”
The author continues by explaining how the lifestyle has transformed in 2065, detailing the major environmental changes after the new civilization of the People of the Seas emerged.
Callebaut is known for his revolutionary futuristic projects including the “organic towers” designed to boost the mental health of people in cities.
The 32-storey “Rainbow Tree” tower block, in Cebu City, Philippines, that was unveiled in 2020, has its own “sky farm”, 30,000 plants and can house hundreds of families.
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