The concept of walking city, which will be able to travel the world, was presented by the Spanish architect Manuel Dominguez.
More than fifty years has passed from the time when Ron Herron proposed the idea of a mobile city. Only now it got implementation, though it remained on paper. It took two and half years for 35-year-old architect Manuel Dominguez to create the project, which he named Very Large Structure.
Dominguez was guided by the ideas that cities no longer have to adapt to changing conditions and various external factors. In contrast, the city will no longer be content with the current situation but will search for better conditions. This can be a moving to natural resources, or, on the contrary, escape from natural disasters - for example, from areas where flooding or earthquakes became more frequent.
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City on the wheels by Manuel Dominguez is designed for 5 thousand people. The design, which resembles a huge platform, standing on the "legs" of the caterpillar tracks, weighs 400 tons. In the case of actual implementation of the project, the mayors of these settlements will have to involve geologists in routs planning: probably, in some places the ground will not able to carry a load. There are different buildings and infrastructure in the city of future, including the power plant and the airport.
According to the author, despite the futuristic design, it's possible to implement the project. Or at least to try.
Text: adapted from gizmodo.com.
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