Aeropolis 2001
Aeropolis 2001 (エ ア ロ ポ リ ス 2001; Earoporisu 2001) is a proposed project for the construction of a massive building of over 500 floors in Tokyo Bay , Japan .
planning
The concept of Aeropolis 2001 was developed by the company Obayashi , based in Minato (Tokyo) , which in Japan designed and constructed the Koshien Stadium in Nishinomiya , the Kyoto Station and the Tokyo Broadcasting System Center, among others .
300,000 people will live and work in the Areopolis tower, which is 2,001 meters high and will house restaurants, offices, cinemas, schools, hospitals, post offices and many other facilities. Elevators could connect the lower and upper floors in around five minutes.
Some architects consider such a building to be necessary, as Japan's island location allows for less and less building land and land prices are extremely high , especially in economic centers like Tokyo .
The high endangerment of all buildings from earthquakes and typhoons , especially in the Japan area, makes a high level of stability of the skyscraper necessary. This is to be achieved by a construction of several tubes with a triangular floor plan. A similar construction was used on the 367-meter-high Bank of China Tower . In addition, several wind passages should ensure stability in strong winds.
Whether the concept of Aeropolis will be realized in 2001 and the dream of the Japanese team of architects, the two-kilometer high-rise building, is more than questionable, as the construction would cost huge sums of money - around 350 billion euros. The construction time would also be very long at an estimated 25 years. If anything, construction is unlikely to start for a few decades.
literature
- Dr. Rainer Köthe: Was ist Was ?, Volume 87, Towers : Tessloff Verlag, Nuremberg, 1990, ISBN 3-7886-0629-0 , p. 45
- John & Liz Soars: Unit 9 . Headway pre-intermediate, pp. 65
- Bernd Flessner: The future on the water. A history of the artificial islands from Utopia to Aeropolis 2001. In: Kultur & Technik 1/1998, Verlag CH Beck, Munich