Building Cities in Artificial Hills

Strata is about creating 3D structures to accommodate people and their living, working and other activities.

Usually those building look like buildings.  But that’s really only convention.

At the Beijing Centre for the Arts, there’s an exhibition called ‘Green Projects II, three dimensional city: future China’ that features ‘China Hills’ by Dutch architects MVRDV, which presents an innovative solution to potential urbanization problems.

The architects call it ‘a dream for future cities’, and as the images show some way, it’s a series of artificial mountains that mix housing, retail, agriculture, and energy production, with the potential to accommodate 100,000 people.

It’s pretty out there but when you need to house hundreds of thousands (if not millions) of people quickly it might become a reality.  You can read more about it at This Big City.

See you in an artificial hill city with lots of other people.

Francesco …