KPF conceives futuristic new city quarter for archipelago in Tokyo Bay
US-based firm Kohn Pedersen Fox has envisioned a new district in Tokyo that includes a mile-high skyscraper and infrastructure elements that will protect the city from natural disasters (+ slideshow).
Called Next Tokyo 2045, the conceptual plan was featured in the Japanese documentary series Next World and was recently published as a research paper by the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitats.
Billed as a megacity adapted to climate change, the district would accommodate half a million residents and would be built on "resilient infrastructure", said KPF, which has offices in New York, London, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Seoul and Abu Dhabi.
The scheme was partly inspired by a visionary 1960 masterplan by the Metabolist architect Kenzo Tange, in which a sprawling megastructure spans Tokyo Bay and connects coastal communities.
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"Next Tokyo introduces the spirit of Tange's unrealised plan to the year 2045 by merging it with new engineering technologies and a strategy for high-density vertical development," said KPF.
"Occupying the bay, but in a far smaller footprint, Next Tokyo explores future urban growth moving upward, rather than outward."
KPF's scheme calls for constructing the new 12.5-square-kilometre district on a manmade archipelago, in an area where development is already occurring. It would sit between the coastal com...
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