X-Seed 4000: Difference between revisions

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The '''X-Seed 4000''' was a [[concept]] for a [[skyscraper|megatall skyscraper]].<ref name="Accelerating Future">{{Cite web |last=Anissimov |first=Michael |date=Feb 16, 2006 |title=Accelerating Future » X-Seed 4000 |url=http://www.acceleratingfuture.com/michael/blog/2006/02/x-seed-4000/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080618150549/http://www.acceleratingfuture.com/michael/blog/2006/02/x-seed-4000/ |archive-date=Jun 18, 2008 |access-date=2022-11-25 |website=acceleratingfuture.com}}</ref> Its proposed {{convert|4|km|mi|adj=mid}} height, {{convert|6|km|mi|adj=mid|-wide}} sea-base, and 800-floor capacity could accommodate 500,000-1,000,000 inhabitants. This structure would behave been composed of over {{convert|3,000,000 tons|e6t|e6ST|abbr=unit}} of [[steel]].

It was designed for [[Tokyo]], Japan, by the [[Taisei Corporation]] in 1995 as a futuristic environment combining ultra-modern and technological living and interaction with wildlife and nature.<ref>{{Cite web |date= |title=Digital Studio - Contemporary Theories of Architecture Brief |url=http://digitalstudio.gre.ac.uk/content/view/125/31/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060518173240/http://digitalstudio.gre.ac.uk:80/content/view/125/31/ |archive-date=2006-05-18 |access-date=2022-11-25 |website=digitalstudio.gre.ac.uk}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2004-05-04 |title=Taisei Construction Co. Ltd. |url=http://www.emporis.com/en/cd/cm/?id=100207 |url-status=deviatedusurped |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040504115106/http://www.emporis.com/en/cd/cm/?id=100207 |archive-date=2004-05-04 |access-date=2022-11-25 |website=emporis.com[[Emporis]]}}</ref> Methods of transportation within the X-seed would most likely include [[MagLev|Maglev]] trains.

"The X-Seed 4000 'is never meant to be built'." says Georges Binder, managing director of Buildings & Data, a firm which compiles data banks on buildings worldwide., said the X-Seed 4000 "is never meant to be built . . . The purpose of the plan was to earn some recognition for the firm, and it worked."<ref name="Tall Tales">{{Cite web |last=Lubell |first=Sam |date=September 12, 2007 |title=X-Seed Inspires Tall Tales {{!}} 2007-09-12 {{!}} Architectural Record |url=https://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/3947-x-seed-inspires-tall-tales |access-date=2022-11-25 |website=www.architecturalrecord.com |language=en}}</ref>

Unlike conventional skyscrapers, to remain habitable the X-Seed 4000 would behave been forced to actively protect its occupants from considerable internal [[air pressure]] and external air pressure gradations and weather fluctuations that its massive elevation would cause. Its design callscalled for the use of [[solar power]] to maintain internal environmental conditions.<ref name="Accelerating Future"/> As the proposed site for the structure is located in the [[Pacific Ring of Fire]], the most active volcano range in the world, the X-Seed 4000 would behave been vulnerable to [[earthquake]]s and [[tsunami]]s.

A sea-based location and a [[Mount Fuji]] shape arewere some of this building's other major design features—the real Mountfeatures—Mount Fuji is land-based anditself is {{convert|3776|m}} high, making it {{convert|224|m}} shorter than the X-Seed 4000.

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