His project, called Above below, is a building that drills 274m into the ground in the now-abandoned 300-acre wide Lavender Pit Mine.
It has it all. Beautiful design, complete autonomy from the outside world, skylights and tubes channelling the natural light, farms and climate control. Now he only needs a Utopian society with enough money to build it. And John Carpenter to film something really horrific and alien happening to all of them. [evolo via Inhabitat]
Greg Randolph
Wednesday, October 13, 2010 at 11:47 AMLock the doors and release the Zombies.
Pat
Wednesday, October 13, 2010 at 11:57 AMDoes this remind anyone else of the Umbrella Corp. building in the first Resident Evil?
Marshall Hughes
Wednesday, October 13, 2010 at 12:28 PMHandy practice for building settlements on Mars
Corteks
Wednesday, October 13, 2010 at 12:30 PMHeh it makes me think more along the lines of the Geofront from Evangelion, which was a massive underground safe haven from attack.
Seriously cool idea. Being built underground would reduce the load on the climate control too!
G
Wednesday, October 13, 2010 at 1:03 PMtotally! first thing i thought! welcome to tokyo 3!
Nodeity
Wednesday, October 13, 2010 at 12:33 PMI’ts actually going to be more of a top supported sky scraper in a giant pit, not a buried building? check here “http://www.evolo.us/architecture/skyscraper-or-sustainable-underground-society/” for the actual facts !!
Vel
Wednesday, October 13, 2010 at 2:31 PMI cant decide if this reminds me more of the Geofront from EVangelion or the Tower from the Island… I think it’s more the latter with the whole outer walkway etc.
Steve
Wednesday, October 13, 2010 at 4:39 PMMatthew Fromboluti = Andrew Ryan.
Damo
Wednesday, October 13, 2010 at 9:16 PMearth tremors and / or floods… scary.
David Anderton
Thursday, October 14, 2010 at 12:57 AMyour all wrong, this is “The Fortress”