My project intends to solve the issues of flooding, pollution and overpopulation by creating City in the Sky. Using a system of reciprocal elements and Helium balloons, it will provide a floating self-sufficient city where the structure becomes part of a programmable substrate that embodies a whole array of functions from data storage to environmental control.
A series of stacked floors will offer high- density residential spaces which connect the inhabitants with nature through new media and technologies while reciprocal clusters tackle issues of food production, oxygen generation and water collection.
City in the sky will represent a new stage in the process of urbanisation of our planet but also in the process of discovering ways in which we can migrate and adapt to other planets. To enable the flight, the city will be fitted with seven helium balloons with a diameter between 170 and 200 m which will counteract the gravitational pull of the 10,000,000 kg city. The city comprises of three concentric habitation layers, three structural layers and three recursive layers, sequenced so as to form three inter-linked repetitive zones called ‘circles’.
To journey in the context of landscape is to reconnect with a deeper part of ourselves. City in the Sky celebrates a new-found conviviality in the city through landscape, providing comfortable and joyous ways to engage the city dweller with the delights of nature. This is enabled through a series of abundantly landscaped public spaces connected through green corridors and staircases.
