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| [Tokyo’s sky City : Japan] |
Vertical Expansion!!!, not an unfamiliar term for civil engineers, researches and aspirants and even for the common man in Tokyo. Yes, they made it [or dreamt off]…a city vertically extending 1km!! towards the sky. People in Tokyo might have fed up with the traffic congestion, civilian crowd, long commutes, urban sprawl, air pollution and all other towny difficulties, that they started thinking of living top-on-top. Now I remember off my hostel days when we used to sleep on double ducker and triple ducker beds. Such a thought was not demanded by the necessity but by the difficulties in town. As the statistics shows, the town was over populated by 35 Million people, concrete forests, vehicles, circuited inaccessible roads. It was not just a thought of building up a giant structure that will accommodate a lump sum amount of people will several floors extending to the sky. Accommodating people along with their belongings and activities need more space and plan and that is what done very scientifically here. The plan was so fantastic that, as the name indicates, they literally created a small city over Tokyo- a city within a city. The building was planned and built to be sustainable that one residing inside should not step down the ‘city’ for anything else. And it was the right choice for building a green living cum working space inside the city.
Talking too much on what they planned and what all were their problems won’t do anything. The real surprise is in the specs of this radically new urban landscape. As said earlier the skyscraper is of 1,000 meters high with a total floor area of 800 hectares (and that’s a small village out there). Sky city is a super high-rise city comprising 14 concave dish-shaped aerial bases called “space plateaus” which was actually stacked one upon other. It can accommodate 35,000 residents and 100,000 workers and has apartments, office space, commercial area, cinema theatres, stadium, swimming pools, schools, hospitals, and even a monorail. Plateaus can be said as the organic part of the city as it contain green spaces, window side living rooms, balcony type play courts, lift/escalators and transport system.
See what Wikipedia has to say about this miracle: Sky City 1000 is a visionary supertall skyscraper in the Tokyo metropolitan area, Japan announced in 1989. The plan consists of a building 1,000 meters (3,281 ft) tall and 400 m (1,312 ft) wide at the base, and a total floor area of 8 km2 (3.1 sq mi). The design, proposed in 1989 by Takenaka Corporation, would house between 35,000 and 36,000 full-time residents, as well as 100,000 workers. It comprises 14 concave dish-shaped "Space Plateaus" stacked one upon the other. The interior of the plateaus would contain green space, and on the edges, on the sides of the building, would be the apartments. Also included in the building would be offices, commercial facilities, schools, theatres, and other modern amenities….read more
Are you really thinking that all these would happen? Or all these were mere planning, as we often used to dream off? Have they constructed such a city in Tokyo? Now I hope you are highly eager to see a video on the construction and features of the miracle besides the fade picture seen as header. Since the Japan government’s announcement, the world's architectural establishment was attracted to this and was featured on Discovery Channel's Extreme Engineering in 2003.
And now let me invite you to watch the featured video on YouTube…
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