How will people live in the future? And where do you relax? The Japanese architects of N-Arc pursue these questions with a design study. The result is the so-called Dogen City, a floating city that is apparently also intended to function as a kind of health resort. It will accommodate up to 40,000 people and offer all the amenities that a modern city also has to offer.
A village with a rocket launcher
The Doge City consists of a large ring four kilometers in circumference. This fulfills several functions: it is intended to protect the inner city from storms and high waves and at the same time provide space for gardens, apartments and a large park. In cross-section, the architects also show that parts of the infrastructure should run through the ring.
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In the inner part there are numerous buildings in the model, such as residential buildings, schools, sports facilities and important trades, such as food production for the residents. N-Ark plans Dogen City for around 10,000 residents who live permanently in the city and 30,000 tourists who are to stay there temporarily. It should feel like living in a village in Dogen City, they say. Against this background, the plan to build a rocket launcher in the ring seems a bit bizarre.
For the architects, however, Dogen City should be more than just a place to live. They describe the project as a “smart health city in the ocean”. Research, telemedicine and clinics should therefore form an important part of Dogen City.
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It says: “Residents of Dogen City can take advantage of telemedicine on a daily basis by managing and analyzing data from smart devices, blood samples and genomic analysis from their living space through the city’s operating system ‘Dogen’. By combining it with medical data and genomic data, the Health conditions of individuals can be more accurately assessed. Advanced medical care, such as drug discovery simulations and remote-controlled robotic surgery, can also be performed through the computational processing at the undersea data center.”
No plans as to when construction will begin
The developers of the Doge City are not planning the servers for the data center on land, but in torpedo-shaped containers under water. This should make cooling easier and save power.
Although there are still no concrete plans for the Doge City regarding its implementation, N-Ark gives the first forecasts of what the floating city could mean in numbers. Accordingly, Dogen City should consume two million liters of water per year, but also produce 6,862 tons of food and generate 22,265,000 kilowatts of electricity. N-Ark estimates the annual waste production at almost 3,300 tons.