If you've ever wanted to live or work inside a mountain, this might be your chance. When tasked with dreaming up a new green business district in Chongqing, China, the CEBO/Chongqing University team delivered the goods with this amazing design filled with buildings that resemble prismatic mountain peaks. Called Magic Mountains, their proposal not only creates an exhilarating new skyline dotted with green, it also incorporates passive cooling and heating, a plan that encourages biking and walking and measures to reduce the overall consumption of resources and energy by 22%.
How can you post this cheaply modelled, greenwashed, urban horror scenario and have an advertising link to a liveable cities award on the same page?
[...] Chinese residents won’t have a choice — Beijing’s Mentougou District is already planning a pilot project for the system. [...]
[...] musicians, each home has its very own music room, each of which is arranged in a collective “mountain” between the houses. Every individual music rooms has its own “light pyramid” [...]
[...] to 30%. The partially solar-powered system can travel up to 50 mph — and it’s coming to China in [...]