Japan's Next Biggest Skyscraper 'Sky Mile Tower' Will Beat Burj Khalifa, And It Will Save The Nation From Floods
Brace yourself, everything is coming:
Rapidly changing weather patterns
Sudden episodes of flooding
Increased homelessness due to strain on global urban planning.
Cities are home to over half of the world's population, a marked increase from 34% in 1960, in a sharply upwards trajectory that mimics skyscrapers.
And this skyscraper is the answer, at least for Tokyo
It's the visual centre of a futuristic mega-city called “Next Tokyo”, adapted for climate change in the next 30 years.
Designed by the architectural houses of Kohn Pedersen Fox and Leslie E. Robertson, it re imagines Tokyo Bay, not as a vulnerable pressure point in natural disasters (such as earthquakes and typhoons), but as a safe point.
The residential tower situated in a transportation-friendly district is designed in hexagonal-shaped structures (500 to 5,000 feet in width) are designed to reduce the effect of intense waves from the bay.
Water storage in these structures would be used for urban farming and growing algae, a source of renewable and clean fuel. At the heart of it all is the mile-high skyscraper, "Sky Mile Tower", 5,577 feet—twice the height of the Burj Khalifa, the world’s current tallest building.
It will be home to 55,000, and resident would have their own shopping centers, restaurants, hotels, gyms, libraries, and health clinics.