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Arcologies always seemed like a neat idea to me, but I've never seen an in-depth look at their proposed infrastructure. What would power and communication dist
by unholythree 7y ago
Arcologies always seemed like a neat idea to me, but I've never seen an in-depth look at their proposed infrastructure.
What would power and communication distribution look like? HVAC? I assumed chill water with several distributed plants. This place is going to need lots of loading docks or it's own trainyard for food and other consumables. Domestic and waste water would probably both need to be handled on site.
I've never seen those aspects of an Arcology design explored.
- pharke 7y agoI think the key to working this out would be extending current practices employed for large buildings with an eye to interconnection. Maybe the best strategy would be to modularize the arcology so that it would be composed of many interconnected structures that are each more or less self sufficient. You could apply this to the Old Man River City by designing it as individual slices of a toroidal pie and then replicating this design until you have the full shape.