Hello Mount DOOOOM!

Another mount Fuji? Hang on, it's actually taller, wider, bigger than ever, and a lot uglier. This is the X-Seed 4000, one of many mega-structure projects idealized in japan not so far away from mount Fuji. It's the tallest building ever fully envisioned, meaning that the designs for construction have been completed. Its proposed 4,000 meters (13,123 ft) height, 6 km (3.7 miles) wide, and 800 floor capacity could accommodate five hundred thousand to one million inhabitants.

Designed by the Taisei Corporation in 1995 as a futuristic sustainable building with ultra-modern living and interaction with nature. Unlike conventional skyscrapers, the X-Seed 4000 would be required to actively protect its occupants from considerable air pressure gradations and weather fluctuations along its massive elevation. Its design calls for the use of solar power to maintain internal environmental conditions. Some estimate that the cost to construct the X-Seed 4000 structure may be somewhere between US$300-900 BILLION!


For me, it's not the design that puts me off the most, even if it does. It's the concept of building such a structure, which accommodates up to a million inhabitants. It's that one step the architects and the silly idealists took further. Really annoys me. I understand they've calculated how this mega-structure would be able to maintain light, temperature, and air pressure in response to changing external weather conditions, but do we really need this sort of architecture; what do you think?

For the record, this building will not be built, and I advise these people to put their minds into something that's more sustainable on a realistic scale, even if it were to gain publicity (if that's what they were going for in the first place.)

Good bye Mount Doom !