人类计划建设的超级建筑

Chinas Vertical Mega City

中国的大型垂直城市

Now lets set our sights on that one large hotel. Imagine standing at the base of a building so massive， so self-contained， and so teeming with life that it truly qualified as a city. Right now， preparations are underway for constructing such a sci-fi marvel in the Chinese city of Shenzhen， a booming metropolis on the Pearl River Delta.

Known as Cloud Citizen， the finished building would comprise three interlocking towers， the tallest only a few hundred feet shorter than Dubais monstrous Burj Khalifa. At around 1.4 square kilometers， its surface area would be only slightly smaller than all of Monaco. But its whats inside that would really shake urban design up. Rather than just being a supermassive office block， Cloud Citizen is designed to operate as a self-contained city-within-a-city. Alongside homes and offices， the superstructure would contain farms， parkland， food production centers， and the means to harvest rainwater. It would also power itself using acombination of wind， solar， and algae， effectively allowing it to exist separately from Shenzhen proper. Impressively for such an urban building， the focus would be on green spaces and parkland， with commuters encouraged to walk to work through high-altitude skyparks.Although there are no concrete plans to start construction yet， Cloud Citizen is being taken seriously by the local government.

現在将我们的目光投向一座大酒店。想象一下自己站在一座如此庞大、完备、充满生命力的建筑物面前，你会觉得它有资格称为一座“城市”。目前，筹备工作正在中国深圳进行：在珠三角蓬勃发展的大都市构建一个科幻奇迹。

该设计取名为“云中漫步”，将由3座摩天塔楼相互联结构成，最高的一座仅比迪拜第一高楼哈利法塔矮几百英尺。其总的表面积大约有1.4平方千米，仅次于摩纳哥的国土面积。但是其内部的设计才真正震撼了整个城市设计界。“云中漫步”被设计成一个完备的城中城，而不只是作为一座巨大的办公楼。除了住宅和办公楼之外，这座大型建筑物还将拥有农场、绿地、食品生产中心及雨水收集设施。而且它还将利用风能、太阳能及藻类来提供所需能量，这些使其不依附于深圳，成为一个独立的存在体。令人印象深刻的是这座城市建筑物的设计亮点在于绿地及公园——旨在鼓励上班族穿过空中花园步行去上班。尽管目前还没有具体的开建计划，但当地政府很重视“云中漫步”项目。

Indias Gigantic Smart Cities

印度的巨大智能城市

It sounds like a Silicon Valley dream： a city where everything is connected to the Internet and a central command center digitally links every citizen. Yet this idle daydream may soon be a reality. Known as Dholera， its one of the Indian governments enormous new infrastructure projects that could be ready within a decade.

Part of the phenomenally ambitious Delhi-Mumbai Industrial Corridor， a $90 billion scheme to link the two most important cities on the subcontinent， Dholera would be the jewel in the projects crown. Built from scratch on reclaimed land， it would be big， powerful， and stunningly high-tech. Digital crowd and traffic control would aim for no jams， no pollution， no mobs of people lining up at terminals， no dirt， and no littering. Every house would be wired up to the Internet， a stunning achievement in a country where， in 2013， only 3 percent of homes had any Internet access. Dholeras other draw is its size. Designed to cope with Indias ever-expanding population， the city would be twice as big as Mumbai， or roughly three times the size of Malta. Even more impressively， Dholera is just the tip of the iceberg. If the project comes off （and the government is pushing ahead， despite serious setbacks）， there are plans to build another 23 smart cities just as impressive across the region.

这听起来像一个硅谷梦：一座一切事物都网络化的城市和一个联系着每个市民的数字化中央指挥中心。然而这样的异想天开不久就会成为现实。印度政府预计在十年内完成大量新型基础设施的建设，而名为多莱拉的项目则是其中之一。

多莱拉项目作为令人瞠目的德里-孟买工业走廊的一部分，预期投资900亿美元，将连接印度次大陆的两个最重要的城市，其犹如皇冠上的明珠，光彩夺目。在新开垦的土地上从零建起，该项目依靠的是强大的、惊人的高科技。数字化的人群和交通管制將会实现以下目标：无交通堵塞、无污染、无大批在终点站排队的人群、无灰尘、无乱扔垃圾。届时每个家庭都与网络相连接——这对一个2013年仅有3%的家庭连接到网络的国家来说，将会是一个惊人的成就。多莱拉另一个吸引人的地方在于它的规模。为了应对印度日益增长的人口，这座城市的占地面积将会是孟买的两倍、马耳他的三倍。更令人印象深刻的是，多莱拉只是冰山一角。如果这个项目成功的话（尽管遇到阻碍，政府仍在极力推进），这个地区将再建造23座同样让人耳目一新的智能城市。

The Netherlands Artificial Mountain

荷兰的人造山

It helped that the Netherlands is no stranger to absurd engineering projects. The province of Flevoland， near Amsterdam， was created in 1932 when Cornelis Lely drained part of the Zuiderzee， expanding the country by several thousand square kilometres. Compared to this and other insane land reclamation projects previously undertaken by the Dutch， a mountain would be easy. Although it was proposed mainly as a joke， Zonnevelds idea caught the publics imagination—so much so that the journalist decided to really do it. Since mid-2015， Zonneveld has being committed fully to the project. His official website for the mountain claims his team has spoken with thousands of companies， recruited financiers， and found planning permission. They say they even came close to building a prototype earlier this year. He maintains that the mountain will be built sometime in the decade.

听起来如此荒谬的建筑工程对荷兰来说并不陌生。阿姆斯特丹附近的弗莱福兰省建于1932年，当时莱利采用围垦方案对须德海（即荷兰艾瑟尔湖）进行改造，将城市扩大了数千平方千米。相比荷兰之前开展的土地围垦项目，造一座山只是一桩小事。最初这只是当作一个玩笑被提及，然而桑纳尔维德（Zonneveld）的想法却吸引住了大众的眼球——正因为如此，这个记者决定要去实现它。从2015年年中开始，桑纳尔维德全身心地投入到这个项目当中。他在筹建这座山的官方网站上声明，他的团队已经和上千家公司和投资商进行了交流并且找到了可行性方案。据说他们今年早些时候甚至差点就建造出山的模型来。他坚信这座山将会在十年内的某个时间建成。