Skyscrapers on Mars, controling the power of a volcano, hoovering Jelly-fish buildings in the cities and green-house looking like planets on earth……….
Skyscrapers of the future? The weird and wonderful architectural designs for some very unusual buildings
For seven years, architecture magazine eVolo has taken submissions from designers, artists, and architects for their most innovative ideas in its skyscraper design competition.
The designs are so outside the norm that they can look more like amoebas or lily pads than a building.
Others look like they’d be at home in a science fiction movie set hundreds of years in the future.
This year, eVolo chose a ‘Polar Umbrella’ from designer Derek Pirozzi as the winner out of 625 entries from 83 countries.
The building, which looks not unlike a jelly fish, includes research labs, eco-tourist attractions, and renewable power stations. It’s also designed to help regenerated the ice caps.
Winner: Derek Pirozzi’s ‘Polar Umbrella’ won this year’s competition with a design that could regenerate ice caps
Art: Designs were abstract, innovative, and could resemble a work of art or something from science fiction more than a normal skyscraper
International: eVolo received 625 projects from 83 countries for this year’s contest
Useful: Many designs had special functions, like this tower which would convert noise pollution
The future: The winners were selected for creativity, ingenuity, and understanding of dynamic and adaptive vertical communities
Sustaining humanity: The Crater Scraper is designed to keep humanity going in case of a catastrophic event like an asteroid colliding with the planet
New home: Some concepts aren’t just buildings but instead are designed to replace the entire planet
Beauty: Many of the designs could easily fit on a museum wall
Bold: One of the concepts harnesses the power of a volcano to supply energy for industries and housing
Going green: Some of the concepts not only harness the earth’s power but find ways to renew it as well
Feed the world: This design would work for urban farming providing a new food source for the nation
Not of this world: These designs would work on Mars as humanity reaches to the stars