Caress the sky with the tips of the fingers
And then yes. The saying of being in the clouds and the 55,000 lucky people residing in n some of your plants you will be able to feel that you are caressing the sky with your fingers. And what about the views? Tokyo at your feet. The skyscraper will also house shops, clinics, restaurants and even shopping malls .An entire minicity in height, reports the newspaper El Mundo.
Designed by the architecture studio Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates (KPF) and structural engineering consultancy Leslie E. Robertson Associates (LERA), the S Ky Mile Tower It is part of a larger and very ambitious project: Tokyo . It is a great sustainable city built on the bay of the Japanese capital and designed to deal with natural phenomena, whose aggressiveness increases as the weather does. climate change . It will have the capacity to accommodate 500,000 people.
A whole series of questions arise, such as how to deal with floods . For this, the project plans the creation of strategically placed hexagonal rings to break the swell . In addition, they can be used to store fresh water or accommodate plots of urban agriculture.
For its part, the Sky Mile Tower has another great challenge to face: wind . And again the hexagon has the solution. And it is that, after several tests, the conclusion was reached that this form is the one that presents higher resistance . The building will also have vertical slots through which air can circulate freely.
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