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French company OXO Architectes and famous architect Nicholas Leisne jointly developed a project for an amazing skyscraper, which will be a multifunctional tower and located in the Sahara desert. Its height will be 450 meters, which almost half the size of the Burj Khalifa in Dubai, which, however, inferior in size to that planned in the Sahara the construction.
“Vertical city”, namely such a name will receive futuristic building, will be equipped with a sharp difference temperatures in the desert and its hot climate. Estimated that the tower will be able to collect annually 45,000 cubic meters of precipitation, some of which will go to a depth of 4 km underground and then in the form of steam fed to the surface to drive the generators power and heating system.
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The remaining precipitation will be used for drinking systems sewage, as well as for irrigation of the garden, which is supposed architects located in the central part of the building, striking visitors with its size and uniqueness of flora. Using water in the desert will be extremely economical – waste water will be used again, subjecting it to thorough cleaning up. Additional power sources in the building will be solar panels, and the climate of the skyscraper is planned to be regulated through natural ventilation.
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It is already known that offices will occupy 22% of the vertical cities “, 17.5% will fall on hotels, on residential premises – 15%. And the remaining space is planned to be given for conference rooms, shopping center, sports complex, spa, restaurant, bar and so Further. On the roof of the skyscraper and at the top of the tower will be helipad and meteorological observatory.
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