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Bionic Tower

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The Bionic Tower is a proposed vertical city, an extremely large building designed for human habitation, designed by Spanish architects Eloy Celaya, and Cervera & Pioz. It would have a main tower approximately 1200 meters high, with 300 stories that would house about 100,000 people. During his administration Xu Kuangdi, former mayor of Shanghai, expressed an interest in the concept for the city. The city of Hong Kong is also interested in the project.

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  • Authorship: Eloy Celaya, Mª Rosa Cervera, Javier Gómez Pioz.
  • Urban Model: Vertical City.
  • Inhabitants: 100,000.
  • Height: 1228 m.
  • Stories: 300.
  • Communications: 368 elevators (15 m/s)(with vertical and horizontal movement).
  • Footprint: 133 m x 110 m at base, expanding to 166 m x 133 m max.
  • Area: 2,000,000 m².
  • Artificial Base Island: 1 km diameter.
  • Structure: Micro-structured High Strength Concrete (2tones / cm^3 or 1372 MPa).
  • Maximum sway: 2.45 m lateral displacement.
  • Tech. system: Bionic Vertical Tech. Space.
  • Cost: USD $15 billion+.

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