And the transit time getting to your floor. Thousands of people all going home about the same time? Impossible.
And most people become uncomfortable if you move them up or down too quickly.
Could take longer to exit the building than the train to the suburbs?
The Tower of Wuhan.
It is a bit laughable for them to infer credibility through Frank Lloyd Wright’s ‘reference’ to mile high skyscrapers. Wright put it forth in jest and in a quite sarcastic manner. Frank Lloyd Wright would be summarily offended by a mile high building, or even the thought that his name was legitimizing the quest for one.
Sure. If Chuck Norris stays in the basement to hold it up.
“And the transit time getting to your floor. Thousands of people all going home about the same time? Impossible.”
Put condos every few floors.
If you read Arthur C Clarke’s 3001, it has a hug skyscraper in it (four, I think, but everything happens in the one).
People living in the upper floors rarely leave. It’s a city unto itself.
Also, in Clarke’s case, those people really couldn’t leave because of the low gravity the were living in. It was a really big tower.
Just take Mt. Everest....
Dig out floors and rooms inside the mountain...
And call it a building.
(Whoever takes up my idea, will owe me royalties. I’ll collect in a few hundred years, after it’s finished).
Just takes one airplane to take it out.
“Is it possible to build a mile-high skyscraper?”
sure. just build it in Denver: after the first story you’re there ...
A ten story one mile square food farm would be better use of space. Face it, what jobs are people gonna do in those buildings that they can’t do out of them? Lawyers? financial institutions? Sleeper dorms? Restaurants? Publishing house offices? Think mildew control. Roach infestation. Earthquakes. Lightning strikes. Riots. Parking? Delivery ports? Norovirus. Cute design exercise however.
I call these projects kind of buildings a symbol of owner & architect architectural penis envy, and nothing mote.
5280 feet...say 10 to 12 feet per floor, allowing for 8-9 foot ceilings with the rest for structure and service distribution. That results in 528 to 440 floors, the rough equivalent of four or five 100 story towers. All concentrated on a single foot print.
So how do we feed this monster, setting aside the staging and materials handling needed for construction, are very complex timing and traffic pattern.
What's the total population load and distribution of that load, the determinants for all components?
So all subsurface have to be sized for the equivalent of the 4 or 5 100 story towers coming together to a single site. That's not a simple plug and play tie to existing utilities. Those need to be greatly increased...all the way back to points of input origin or output collection. That's shit load of urban digging well beyond the property lines very likely in already crowded subterranean public right of ways.
Then there is surface traffic, again 4 or 5 hundred story tower populations arriving and departing at a single site at roughly the same times, start of day, lunch hour, close of day. Same with private, commercial, and mass transit access. And massive amounts of daily delivery of package, mail, office supplies that occur throughout the day. Solid wastes, mostly paper are usually scheduled for non-business hours and even in regular towers are a non-
trivial problem.
Each of those issue solutions, in a civilized country must be reviewed by various municipal departments manned by bureaucrats with paper pushing drones suddenly encountering something totally alien to them and well beyond their professional skills set and their imaginations as well as being outside all previous guidelines. Job security is their number one goal. Good luck with that.
Then come the environmental impact statements and public hearings.
After all that, the insurance consultants will raise construction issues. Best practices and administrative codes currently make no provisions for gauging increased minimal fire safety requirements. How much longer should fire barriers withstand events to insure adequate evacuation of occupants, structural integrity. No one planned for jet fuel fire load, if that's even possible or reasonable....
Interesting problems before the first bit of earth is shoveled.
The people live and work in the same building. A NWO dream.
If you’re getting that tall you’re probably also going to get very wide. And then you’re getting into buildings that are basically cities. Like Judge Dredd Blocks. Residence, shopping, jobs, entertainment. All in one massive building. People living their entire life in there, like folks who never get out of their city.
Not that I will be around to collect, but I would be willing to bet money that in 50 years a substantial percentage of the human race will live underground.
The environmental movement is such that they think the weather is going to kill us and that mankind is destroying the planet’s ecosystem. Eating animals will soon be considered by a majority of the world to be akin to murder.
Of all the disasters that can wipe out humanity, nearly all can be survived by being underground. Solar flare - check. Nova of a nearby star - check. Giant asteroid or comet - check. Monster volcano - check.
We are not going up, but under.
Imagine in a general power black out walking down a mile high worth of stairs.