It is an unusual question to think about. Can a structure that never reaches a height above sea level be called a skyscraper? Tonight's Dazzling Designs is all about something that I have never heard of: an inverted skyscraper.
A structure designed by Matthew Fromboluti seeks to prove itself worthy of being called a skyscraper while being 900 feet underground. It's crazy to think that something could be called a skyscraper while being underground and not actually "scraping the sky." A 300 acre wide crater left by a mine in Bisbee, Arizona, is the place where this inverted skyscraper will be built. The structure will include work places, green spaces, recreational areas, and even farming. (It almost reminds me of the Dragonfly structure from a previous Dazzling Designs post.) Not just this, but it will have its own power source, water recycling system, and a solar chimney, which is used to control the artificial climate. Also, skylights are inside the underground mega-structure to help control the climate.
At the surface, there is a dome that covers the structure, and obviously, 99 percent of the entire building will be underground. Overtime, the natural erosion and deposition cycle will cover the dome with sand, and the top of the structure will be, technically, invisible.
In conclusion, inverted skyscrapers are an interesting feat of architecture. They are filled with complex designs, creative ingenuity, and artificial technology that make it possible to live in these underground structures. Should an underground building be called a skyscraper? No, it's probably smarter to call it a dirt-scraper!
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Sneak Peak on the next installment of Dazzling Designs:
A skyscraper floating over a massive canyon is something you will never see...until now. Be looking forward to next week's Dazzling Designs when we talk about the next amazing feat in architectural engineering: a skyscraper floating over the Grand Canyon!
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