Verticity

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Verticity....A Vertical City

I've been thinking for a long time about building something new and I always wanted to build a megatall, and I mean a megatall! I had this concept running around in my head for a vertical city, not a new idea by a long shot, but one which I thought would make a cool 3D project. When I say vertical city, what I really mean is a single tower rising for hundreds and hundreds of meters.

I remember seeing Jean Nouvel's Tour Sans Fins concept for Paris many years ago, and being quite inspired at the time. I'm using this as a jumping off point.

Basically the 'city' will take the form of a cylindrical glass structure rising 3-4000m, yes 3-4km high. It shall be completely self sufficient and I imagine it would be built outside of existing cities. The location I have in mind is a semi-arid desert region. However it could equally be built in a temperate zone, colder region or even in the sea. The city should have road and high speed rail links. There will be some kind of 'farm' included in the design, which will take the form of a greenhouse structure for food growing. The building must also be as green as possible using renewable energy and limiting its carbon footprint as much as possible.

As I have not done anything yet except a crude model for the location this project will be a complete design and build scheme, from sketchbook to finished renders and I am even toying with under construction renders too. This will break away from my previous work which was texture applied modelling to true material and spatial modelling with interiors as well as exteriors. Textures are fine for cities, but lame for individual buildings. I also want to get down to the human scale, something a lot of these vertical city concepts out there seem to miss.

Updates maybe very vague as time is much more constrained recently with work commitments and such, but I would hope to have some concepts done for next week. I was in fact wary of posting as that in itself is a commitment, but hey.

Finally if anyone's worried Sta Fee is not dead, she is still on my PC! We are taking it slowly, I haven't divorced her yet, I have too much invested in her to do that. We're just on a break