A Glimpse of the Upside Down

Whether we can accept it or not, we as humans are wasting this beautiful place we call Earth. With climate change ravaging us on a daily basis, and sea-levels rising to a shocking extent, it’s up to us now to come up with alternatives. Where do we go when the Earth can’t take it anymore? It’s a question that sticks out in the minds of many.

New York-based Clouds Architecture Office have come up with a super-cool solution. Whilst working alongside its partners, Masayuki Sono and Ostap Rudakevych, Clouds Architecture have created a concept that contrasts to the traditional and historic shape of buildings. They had decided that, as the world population is growing, architecture nowadays is getting thinner and taller to create more space to expand.

As humans are earth-dwelling creatures, the firms started experimenting with ideas on how to flip that on its head. What if the world can, quite literally, be flipped upside down as we travel upwards to allow the Earth to heal itself. So it was with that idea that Clouds Architect Office came up with a single, suspended city with the capacity to house the entirety of Earth’s population.

Enter the Analemma Tower. Inverting the traditional understanding of how structures should be made, Clouds Architect Office have conceptualised a space-based suspended tower. Also known as a UOSS (Universal Orbital Support System), which is based on the principles of a conventional space elevator.

How can they make that happen? By placing a large asteroid into orbit over space and dangling a super-tall, very cool tower from high strength cables. It is rumoured that the concept would be constructed somewhere over Dubai, which has proved to be a specialist in tall building construction.