A firm based in New York has proposed to use Dubai as a site for an innovative, asteroid-suspended skyscraper.
Clouds Architecture is the name of firm behind the design of a proposed Analemma Tower while it will be suspended downward on an asteroid orbiting 50,000 km above earth.
The international firm says that the proposed tower is the building structure that will change the traditional concept of an earth-based foundation. Instead of that, the building will depend on a space-based material from where it will be suspended downwards towards earth.
Universal Orbital Support System (UOSS) is the name of this unique system that construct building based on the support of space material.
The firm said in a statement that their plan is to place a large asteroid in the space above earth and then a super tall tower can be suspended through a high strength cable towards service over earth. This new type of tower can be constructed anywhere and later taken to its final destination as it will be suspended in the air.
The firm thinks that Dubai is the best place where construction of this Analemma can take place because the place has experienced in building tall structures while its cost of just one-fifth of its cost in New York.
Though, it seems something impractical or seen in a science fiction film but the firm says that this is very much reality as most people don’t understand the achievement of modern science.
Clouds Architecture told that European Space Agency found through its ‘Rosetta’ mission that making contact and landing on a spinning comet is possible after which it started investment in steroid mining in 2015. An asteroid recovery mission has been scheduled in 2021 by NASA in order to test the possibility of capturing and transferring an asteroid.
Currently, many face housing issues on earth but this problem can easily be solved if this idea proved successful in near future.
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