The inhabitants and visitors of this tower could enjoy amazing landscapes while traveling at almost 500 kilometers per hour.
Do you feel that normal life on earth is too ordinary for you? This prototype skyscraper could elevate your housing situation ... literally.
The office Clouds Architecture Office (CAO) unveiled its futuristic skyscraper project called Torre Analemma. The building would float majestically because it would be fixed to an asteroid (yes, you read well) placed in orbit around the Earth.
If that is not enough, think that your exact address on this hanging canopy could be anywhere on Earth.
The tower will be suspended from the asteroid with high-strength cables and put into an "eccentric geosynchronous orbit". In other words, it would always be moving, so both locals and visitors would make a daily trip from the Northern Hemisphere to the Southern Hemisphere with an extended stopover on a main "base" such as New York City or Dubai (it is always New York Or Dubai, right?).
ADVANCES IN SPACE TECHNOLOGY COULD REALIZE THIS VISION
In 2015, the European Space Agency's Rosetta mission managed to pose a ship on the surface of comet Churyumov-Geraismenko and demonstrated that it is possible to interact with such small space bodies. NASA's Asteroid Redirect mission aims to send a robot to collect a rock from an asteroid and then place it in a stable orbit around the Moon. Something similar they want to do in CAO, since they intend to use an asteroid equipped with cables of high resistance to support the skyscraper in its trip.
Ostap Rudakevych, designer of the Analemma Tower, told CNN that the tower could be built with durable, lightweight materials such as carbon fiber and aluminum.
Certain advances will have to be made in cable engineering to achieve the necessary strength to load the structure. Energy could be obtained from solar panels that have a constant exposure to sunlight. The water would be collected from clouds and rain and kept in a semi-closed recirculation system.
According to the proposal, the tip of the tower would be 32,000 meters high and is expected to cross the skies at almost 500 km/h.
The asteroid would be relocated in a geosynchronous orbit and cables would be installed to load the tower below (Photo: Clouds Architecture Office)
AND WHY WOULD YOU WANT TO BE THERE?
The design raises some important questions, such as: "What do I do if I also want a life on earth?" Or "Will my family or my friends miss me because they will only have a finite opportunity every day to see me, and even then I will be floating on Earth, unable to make contact?"
If you are asking these questions, then we are sorry to tell you that you are probably not ready to live in a huge mobile tower on an asteroid; But it does not matter, the designers are on your side. Rudakevych said he envisions that large passenger drones will take people to and from the tower with state-of-the-art electromagnetic elevators.
Currently, the tower would ideally be built in Dubai because they have long built elegant skyscrapers at a fraction of the cost of construction in the United States.
When we asked him what led him to create this project, Rudakevych said that "since humans came out of the caves, buildings have become taller and lighter. We believe that someday, buildings will separate from the surface of the earth And they will save us from floods, earthquakes and tsunamis. "The Analemma Tower is a speculative idea about how to achieve it sometime in the future.
The tip of the Analemma Tower would extend beyond the troposphere