“Noah’s Ark” – The Ocean City

eVolo Magazine has announced the winners of the 2012 Skyscraper Competition. The annual Skyscraper Competition recognizes outstanding ideas that redefine skyscraper design through the use of new technologies, materials, programs, aesthetics, and spatial organizations, along with studies on globalization, flexibility, adaptability, and the digital revolution. One of the most fantastic projects became not a tall building, but environmentally sustainable city on artificial islands named “Noah’s Ark”. Its authors - Serbian architects Aleksandar Joksimovic and Jelena Nikolic - were awarded in the category of “honorable mention”.

Since the beginning of the world, people and all living species have been fighting for their survivor. Natural disasters are something that is beyond our control and, naturally, it is something that we are most afraid of. Being apparently inspired by Kevin Reynolds’s movie “Waterworld”, the Old Testament legends of the Deluge and Noah’s Ark, and keeping in mind that 72% of the earth’s surface is already covered by water, the architects proposed the creation of town in the ocean, which will be completely self-sufficient and able to support all the essential life functions for all living species, from humans to animals and fish to plants. So extension of the urban city grid onto water is both logical and useful, as solar, wind and wave energies are easily captured at sea, and it is these natural energy sources that will power the development.

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