SECTION UNDER CONSTRUCTION
15 • Connectivity and interdependence
• The red underlines the access fluidity on the Islet. The pathways of the macrostructure parks congregate into the cyclone stairwell towers, that support the Walkways level. The Walkways are a superstructure bridge system, built specifically to house and withstand the intense workday activities.
• From the Walkways (or directly from the parks beneath), pedestrians walk up through the Flyer pillars. Along the two coiling stairways, numerous Wedge rooms may be suspended in the Space Frame sockets.
• Across the ribbed pillars clings the community heart of the Flyer. From there, one retreats to the privacy of the apartment wings.
CONNECTIVITY
• on Isle level
- the connection to shore is achieved by boats and barges, yet temporary and permanent bridges will be provided from the beginning
- inter-islet transportation infrastructure:
permanent elevated walkways and bike lanes
temporary floating walkways
- mobile intra-connectivity :
segways rental
bicycles, limited to bike lanes
- mobile inter-connectivity :
bicycles (limited to islets spanning infrastructure)
sail and row, and electric boats
all manner of rentals, located in pocket-harbors on the fringes of the Macrostructure:
parking and rental bay for electric and air-pressure: boats, jet skis and possibly amphibious cars (to take you in the old countryside)
- monorail + top bicycle and pedestrian lanes + possibly top motorway (visiting electric cars and taxis, drop off only)
- airship ferries on floating landing stations, or Walkways level landing hubs
- air taxis + Walkways and Flyers roof landing spots, for private transport, not intruding on the lower, peaceful level of the Macrostructure
- underwater optical fibers and backup power lines. prevalent onboard wireless connectivity infrastructure.
• The red underlines the access fluidity on the Islet. The pathways of the macrostructure parks congregate into the cyclone stairwell towers, that support the Walkways level. The Walkways are a superstructure bridge system, built specifically to house and withstand the intense workday activities.
• From the Walkways (or directly from the parks beneath), pedestrians walk up through the Flyer pillars. Along the two coiling stairways, numerous Wedge rooms may be suspended in the Space Frame sockets.
• Across the ribbed pillars clings the community heart of the Flyer. From there, one retreats to the privacy of the apartment wings.
CONNECTIVITY
• on Isle level
- the connection to shore is achieved by boats and barges, yet temporary and permanent bridges will be provided from the beginning
- inter-islet transportation infrastructure:
permanent elevated walkways and bike lanes
temporary floating walkways
- mobile intra-connectivity :
segways rental
bicycles, limited to bike lanes
- mobile inter-connectivity :
bicycles (limited to islets spanning infrastructure)
sail and row, and electric boats
all manner of rentals, located in pocket-harbors on the fringes of the Macrostructure:
parking and rental bay for electric and air-pressure: boats, jet skis and possibly amphibious cars (to take you in the old countryside)
- monorail + top bicycle and pedestrian lanes + possibly top motorway (visiting electric cars and taxis, drop off only)
- airship ferries on floating landing stations, or Walkways level landing hubs
- air taxis + Walkways and Flyers roof landing spots, for private transport, not intruding on the lower, peaceful level of the Macrostructure
- underwater optical fibers and backup power lines. prevalent onboard wireless connectivity infrastructure.
INTERDEPENDECE
• between the multitude of Borrow Islets
- they complement each other functionally and infrastructurally. A college or a small industries park on one Islet would accommodate more than its immediate vicinity. The administrative borough divisions run the great wealth of local services, such as schools, social services, public functions, waste collection and infrastructure, independently or as shared services.
- the Islets connect via the Walkways levels. They may have intermediary landings on independently floating hexagon sections.
• between the parent Dry City and the floating Mirror City
- the future of the two cities is their coalescence into the perpetual Metropolis, a dense human settlement that may exist perpetually on its own merits and not voracity.
16 • Structural details
• The Space Frame structural system: steel space frame, proofed against lateral movement with a ferocement staircase at the core, and further tensioned with steel cables on three sides. The black cylinder joints and their bulk must obviously be better integrated in space frame backbone of the flyer, possibly inside of an additional outer layer to the space frame system.
• Trussed walkway ribs for added rigidity.
• The hanging building core. In this scenario as vertical garden platforms.
• Administrative Pods with photovoltaic panels, at Walkways level height.
• Administrative Pods with photovoltaic panels, at Walkways level height.
• The steel chassis structure of the apartments wings, with casings for the amphibious apartment units. 60 meters long at the tip, 11 meters wide, 4.95 meters tall
• The second floor of the apartment units, light weight shell over a steel chassis, permanently docked, adds further rigidity to the wing trussed frame by transforming it into a space frame construction.
• The fiberglass on aluminum monocoques of the apartments, being transported into the wing structure by either a floating crane or a permanent Flyer roof crane. Empty space is provided between the wings and between the apartments’ shells themselves, to mitigate the forces of the wind.
• The Cyclone Stairwells, standalone (left) and as part of the Flyer (right)
• Volumetric tensed frame construction, supports the WALKWAYS space frame
• Exterior rollercoaster lifts pulled from under the stairs
• Volumetric tensed frame construction, supports the WALKWAYS space frame
• Exterior rollercoaster lifts pulled from under the stairs
• Cyclone Stairwells TOP VIEW
• Cyclone Stairwells SIDE VIEW
• MALU II all-purpose electric Minisub (TAXI, sightseeing)
• MALU II, seating 1 + 3 (4)
• floor batteries
• bow and stern views