View Full Version : Mammoth Pyramid New Orleans
www.inhabitat.com/2009/08/18/noah-mammoth-pyramidal-arcology-designed-for-new-orleans/
Arcology may sound like a made up word - probably because it is. A hybrid of architecture and ecology, it is essentially a mega city which packs a ginormous population into one hyperstructure - think Death Star, Zion in The Matrix or the Anthill of Antz fame. Now, a real-life group of ambitious designers has taken their looming pyramidal arcology and placed it smack dab on the Mississippi River as a proposal for the rebuild of New Orleans which is currently in progress. This 30 million square foot beast-building with an array of green features is aptly named NOAH (Get it? Noah and the Arcology?), and is meant to house 40,000 mostly human residents.
http://www.inhabitat.com/wp-content/uploads/arcology4.jpg
hollo
21-08-2009, 12:17 AM
this is meant to house 40,000 mostly human residents?
looks a good idea to me but then i can be naive at times :)
schaff
21-08-2009, 04:28 PM
www.inhabitat.com/2009/08/18/noah-mammoth-pyramidal-arcology-designed-for-new-orleans/
Looks fucking horrible and like something out of Robocop LOL:rolleyes:
jakeuk999
21-08-2009, 04:38 PM
Its probably a giant gas chamber.
grandsecretary
21-08-2009, 04:48 PM
What a visually fantastic piece of modern architecture. I love it. Amazing.
It's interesting..yet it irks me....feel like that big bit in the middle is being wasted. I guess it would have some interesting views though. Mostly humans? You mean they are going to house aliens there too?
kasalt
21-08-2009, 05:27 PM
Video link
NOAH-NEW ORLEANS ARCOLOGY HABITAT - YouTube
jakeuk999
21-08-2009, 05:33 PM
Forgive me for being stupid but have they actually built this thing or is this just a C.G mockup?
grandsecretary
21-08-2009, 05:39 PM
Forgive me for being stupid but have they actually built this thing or is this just a C.G mockup?
It is a computer graphic. E. Kevin Schopfer is best known as a naval architect (yacht designer). He is very talented and on the leading edge of futuristic conceptual design.
suicidal_martyr
21-08-2009, 05:39 PM
Too bad it doesn't fly, useless if a disaster hit.
lightgiver
21-08-2009, 05:59 PM
www.inhabitat.com/2009/08/18/noah-mammoth-pyramidal-arcology-designed-for-new-orleans/
http://www.inhabitat.com/wp-content/uploads/arcology4.jpg
Is that to house 40,000 masons :confused:
and then take it out to sea on a rough day.:D:D:D preferably in a hurricane type storm.Oh with GS at the helm.
http://img188.imageshack.us/img188/2743/masontemplar0602.jpg (http://img188.imageshack.us/i/masontemplar0602.jpg/)
Pirates of the Caribbean - Friggin' in the Riggin' - YouTube
http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/sociopolitica/sociopol_masonsknightstemplar06.htm
lightgiver
22-08-2009, 12:38 AM
Is that to house 40,000 masons :confused:
and then take it out to sea on a rough day.:D:D:D preferably in a hurricane type storm.Oh with GS at the helm.
http://img188.imageshack.us/img188/2743/masontemplar0602.jpg (http://img188.imageshack.us/i/masontemplar0602.jpg/)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiMMtKBD8Xc
http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/sociopolitica/sociopol_masonsknightstemplar06.htm
Bumped for new Info:D
couldn't resist.
lordzoma
23-08-2009, 07:16 AM
It's interesting..yet it irks me....feel like that big bit in the middle is being wasted. I guess it would have some interesting views though. Mostly humans? You mean they are going to house aliens there too?
The opening in the middle is probably for three reasons. Aesthetics, air flow to prevent it from falling over, and structural support.