Seas of the World Concept Buildings, Conceptual Architecture Design, Image
Seas of the World : Maritime Concept Design
Seas of the World Building – design by X-TU Architects
12 Apr 2012
Seas of the World
Design: X-TU, Architects
English text (scroll down for French):
X_SEA_TY
In 2010 the inhabitants of the virtual world decided to build a real city, designed on principles of sharing, networking resources, ecological symbiosis: an offshore city free an island … they have one mission: clean up the cities, transforming them polluting carbon dioxide they exploit the biochemical energy algae.
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With they produce biofuels and raw materials, proteins, vitamins, they invented the facades of photosynthetic algae culture from carbon dioxide they have developed in an urban island inspired by the worlds reefs, floating, and an urban cooperative assemblable recomposable, they use water to move, they assembled their city like bees, they exploit the energies of the sea, they built a dense urban vertical, perforated.
A three-dimensional urban mixed they sought an architectural model for their photosynthetic towers and three-dimensional structure tree, she made a three-dimensional landscape, a world air alternative golden boys, they threw their range to suit a tertiary world of conditioning they dream of faraway islands tired business centers sanitized they imagined facades of homes, porous concrete, foam and nutritious hosting a wild vegetation and island looks like a jungle sometimes ….
They use the architecture of cities such as production tool …
French text:
En 2010 les habitants du monde virtuel ont décidé de construire une vrai ville, imaginée sur des principes du mutualisation, de mise en réseau des moyens, de symbiose écologique : une ville offshore libre, une île… ils ont une mission: dépolluer les villes pollueuses en transformant leur gaz carbonique ils exploitent l’énergie biochimique des algues.
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Avec ils produisent des biocarburants et des matières premières, des protéines, des vitamines ils ont inventé des façades photosynthétiques de culture d’algues à partir de gaz carbonique ils ont développé une urbanité en archipel, inspirée par les mondes coralliens, flottante, une urbanité coopérative assemblable et recomposable, ils utilisent l’eau pour se déplacer, ils ont assembles leur ville comme les abeilles, ils exploitent les énergies de la mer, ils ont construit une urbanité verticale dense, ajourée.
Une urbanité mixte en trois dimensions ils ont cherché un modèle architectural pour leurs tours photosynthétiques et une structure en trois dimensions arborescente, elle compose un paysage tridimensionnel, un univers aérien, golden boys alternatifs, ils ont jeté leurs panoplie tertiaire pour s’adapter à un monde dé climatisé ils rêvent d’îles lointaines fatigués des centres d’affaires aseptisés ils ont imaginé des façades de logements, en béton poreux, alvéolaire et nutritif accueillant une végétation sauvage et leur île, parfois resemble à une jungle….
Ils utilisent l’architecture des villes comme outil de production…
Seas of the World – Building Information
Title: X_SEA_TY – SEA OF THE WORLD
Architects: X-TU – Anouk LEGENDRE + Nicolas DESMAZIERES
Team: Gaelle Le Borgne – project director Amelie Busin, Guillaume Mazars, Olivier Busson
Client: X_Sea_Ty state
Situation: Seas of the world
Program: offices, housing, stores, soho, condominium
Area: 680,000 m² [island] ; 4,500,000 m² [buildings]
Population: 100,000 persons
Density: 133,800 pers/km²
Production: 287 M W/year
Sustainable city Perspectivs views: X_TU
Seas of the World images / information from X-TU
Location: Atlantic Ocean
Architectural Concept Designs – Selection
Wave Tower Design
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Hanging Tower
image © Stephan Sobl
Metropolitan Vertical Theme Park
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Indigo Tower Concept
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Another design by X-TU Architects on e-architect:
Musée des Beaux-arts Reims, France
image from architects
Another Maritime Concept Design on e-architect:
Energy Island
image © Stephan Sobl
The Seas reveal many vast and diverse energy sources which are too often considered individually, for instance the energies of wind, wave, sea currents, tides, solar energy including marine photosynthesis, geothermal and ocean thermal differential energy. Also, some renewable energy sources, often converted on land, can be more efficiently sea based, wind energy being a typical example, where land features reduce its intensity and limit its locations. Land based wind farms have proved themselves to be visually unacceptable to many, whilst solar farms often occupy too much valuable land.
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