The fictional megastructure: moving cities
In the film "Mortal Engines" (1)is one of the most interesting, fictional things, whatever introduced in the film. This idea is moving cities has brought in the mind the question, is this possible someday? What if we would build houses on the NASA:s Mobile launchpad (49X41m)? (2)That offers us the unique solution for chancing view and environment, and if we would equip that vehicle with the air cushion system, this thing can travel over the seas. That thing is one of the most unique ideas of architecture.
Sometimes people are asking is it possible to create the moving vehicle, where the entire city is built on them? The difference between moving city and mega-ship is that the moving city can travel also on the drylands, and that makes it an interesting thing. That kind of fantasy society could work in the mining industry or create hydrogen from water, and sell it to people, who are living in normal cities.
One of the ideas, that are benefiting the idea of the "moving city" is the air-cushion vehicle or ACV, which is created by using the NASA:s moving rocket-launching platform, which has the size of the half of the football field. In this idea on the ACV is built the houses, and there would be the collapsible plastic bubble, what is protecting the house and yard from the weather, and in some ideas, the system can use tracks, when it moves on drylands or air-cushion system, what bases the valance, what can put down. When the vehicle would travel across the sea, it can use the air cushion system.
The answer is that there is a possibility to make the extremely large-sized platforms, what are laying over the air cushion, and that kinds of things can be made by using existing technology. In this kind of structure below this platform would be installed hundreds or even thousands of air cushions, what mission is to keep that thing above the surface, and the cell structure in that layer would keep the system safe.
So if we would have enough material and energy, we could create the ACV (Air Cushion Vehicle), what size can be over a kilometer. And if we want to create this kind of thing in the air-cushion-based solution would be the best, because that thing keeps up the entire layer, and the houses could be built on it.
The thing, that we would need for that kind of system is the energy source like a nuclear reactor, what would give the energy for the blowers, what are used to make air cushion for that kind of thing. But as you might think this kind of thing is so enormous thing, that the creation of that kind of thing might leave tomorrow. And maybe those megastructures would be only science fiction, but climate chancing has been changed the peoples' way to think about this kind of solution.
When the large land-areas would leave below the surface, and the population is growing, the new type of solutions for a living is raising in the mind of architects. And one of the solutions is a moving city, which can travel on the sea, but today this kind of thing is only fantasy.
Mortal Engines movie trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPZImNtoJdw
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