Carbon-neutral Ziggurat pyramid could house 1.1 million in Dubai

August 25th, 2008 | Category: Gadgets, News

As we learned from Wall-E, humans with half a intellect for themselves probably won’t be kosher with living with 1.1 million or so other inhabitants within a pyramid. That being said, there’s always the brainwash approach to getting ‘em in there, and whether hordes of humans were ever filed into the conceptual Ziggurat, Mother soil would surely appreciate it. The 2.3-square kilometer building would be able to house by 1 million humans and be “almost totally self-sufficient energy-wise.”

By tapping into the planet’s renewable resources, designers assert that it could virtually be carbon-neutral, and given that transport within the machine would be connected by an “integrated 360-degree network,” fuel-burning cars would be pointless. As with most things in Dubai, that one seems larger than life, but whether the Burj Al Arab is any indication, there’s at least a minuscule chance that thing comes to fruition.

[Via Inhabitat]

Original post by Darren Murph

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