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An Urban Utopia In The Clouds Won The Shenzen Super City Award

'Cloud Citizens' is an eco-friendly superstructure designed to give more to the environment than it takes/

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In the concept architecture photos for Cloud Citizen, the winner of the Shenzhen Super City Competition, stacks of hyper-dense, eco-friendly floors shoot into the sky. Designed by the joint efforts of the Urban Future Organization, CR Architecture+Design, and a computing team at Chalmers University of Technology, Cloud Citizen is a step toward a green future full of, "future cities capable of giving back more to the environment than they cost," according to a Chalmers press release.

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All 170 hectares of the 680 meter-tall super city work in cooperation with nature to make that future a reality; lush gardens act as "green lungs" connecting each of Cloud Citizen's public spaces; built-in mechanisms harvest rainwater, and power the city with solar, wind, and algae-based energy, special sections of the city will store carbon and filter particles from the air, while housing sanctuaries for plant life; localized food production modules and housing will cut down on carbon emissions from transportation. These diverse elements work together to create a harmonious vision of the cities of the future.

While inherently ambitious, the process of designing a whole city at once may be the unified solution for wasteful, polluted, and difficult-to-manage urban areas. Designed to occupy the Shenzhen Bay area on China's mainland, directly across from the microcosm that is Hong Kong, China's steadily worsening pollution problemCloud Citizenis the latest in a long string of green architectural projects and art pieces the Asian superpower has hosted over the last two years. Alongside air-cleansing Phoenix Towers and Studio Roosegaarde's smog-based jewelry, if the trend continues, perhaps the below illustration of the city poking through a layer of clear, white clouds may one day become a reality.

Explore the dreamy concept photos of the Cloud Citizen super city plans below:

Visit Urban Future Organization's website here, CR-Design's website here, and Chalmers University of Technology's website here to see what other future-forming projects they're working on. h/t Designboom

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