Rising sea levels, overcrowded cities, exploding population are all indicators of an urgent need to reduce the burden on our urban landscapes. Cities of the future will have to accommodate expansion in a manner that wont choke its infrastructure. A competition thrown by the History Channel, challenging architects and designers to come up with a model city of the future. The city winners for San Francisco have envisioned the future to have advanced to the point where hydrogen powered vehicles are commonplace and where hydrogen has taken over oil as the most preferred fuel source.
Taking into account global warming and the possibility of a few city areas being submerged by 2108, they have proposed a series of underground and underwater tunnels made out of carbon nanotubes. Using algae to produce hydrogen while simultaneously tapping power from geothermal vents and aquifers and using inundated areas of the city to build sinuous towers for residences are all the hallmarks of the proposed city.
It makes me wonder how a person’s bedroom view is going to be early morning, should he or she decide to buy prime property under water. And to think that they would wake up to sound of dolphins! The future does seem exciting.
Source: Dezeen
