New York based Clouds Architecture Office drew up plans for Analemma Tower to "overturn the skyscraper typology" by building not up from the ground but down from the sky by affixing the foundations to an orbiting asteroid.
Prefabricated modules would be hoisted up from earth and plugged into the building's extendable core, which would be tethered by cables to the asteroid.
"Since this new tower typology is suspended in the air, it can be constructed anywhere in the world and transported to its final location," said the company.
The Clouds Architecture propose building the tower over Dubai, a city at the forefront of supertall construction, and where property is almost 15 times cheaper per square foot than New York, according to their workings out.
The completed tower would follow a figure-of-eight path between the northern and southern hemispheres each day.
"Manipulating asteroids is no longer relegated to science fiction," said the architectures , explaining how a 2015 mission by the European Space Agency had proved the ability to land on a spinning comet.
Also NASA has scheduled an asteroid retrieval mission for 2021 which aims to prove the feasibility of capturing and relocating an asteroid.
Source: Supertall skyscraper hangs from orbiting asteroid in Clouds Architecture Office concept
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Prefabricated modules would be hoisted up from earth and plugged into the building's extendable core, which would be tethered by cables to the asteroid.
"Since this new tower typology is suspended in the air, it can be constructed anywhere in the world and transported to its final location," said the company.
The Clouds Architecture propose building the tower over Dubai, a city at the forefront of supertall construction, and where property is almost 15 times cheaper per square foot than New York, according to their workings out.
The completed tower would follow a figure-of-eight path between the northern and southern hemispheres each day.
"Manipulating asteroids is no longer relegated to science fiction," said the architectures , explaining how a 2015 mission by the European Space Agency had proved the ability to land on a spinning comet.
Also NASA has scheduled an asteroid retrieval mission for 2021 which aims to prove the feasibility of capturing and relocating an asteroid.
Source: Supertall skyscraper hangs from orbiting asteroid in Clouds Architecture Office concept
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