Horizontal elevators will change how we design and build cities
HORIZONTAL ELEVATORS WILL CHANGE HOW WE DESIGN AND BUILD CITIES
DECEMBER 3, 2014 By MATTHEW BURGESS Read More: http://www.factor-tech.com/future-ci...-build-cities/ Quote:
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^cool video and concept. I for one still prefer needle-like buildings.
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If they move horizontally they should be named "turbolifts"
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You could still have that, by adding a shell around the structure, and perhaps even making use of the empty space to still have stick buildings. |
Just noticed in the diagrams that Thyssen-Krupp is building a new elevator testing tower.
http://skyscraperpage.com/cities/?buildingID=104738 |
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As for the idea that this tech will lead to towers with buldges... I don't buy it. Apart from a few buildings, a tower that is basically an extrusion upwards of the plot area will still be the dominating form. |
Maybe. But I can imagine a sort of "tetris effect" happening in limited form, where vertical space above existing low-rise buildings (ones worth keeping) is allowed to be built into by adjacent developments. See for example the proposed tower over Waterfront Station in Vancouver, which takes up minimal space on the ground but lots of extra vertical space above the old station building.
It might do a lot to mess with our conception of land ownership in highly developed cities. Probably a good thing. There will also be something called "sky ownership".:yes: |
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MAGNETICALLY LEVITATING ELEVATORS COULD RESHAPE SKYLINES
Read More: http://www.popsci.com/elevator-will-reshape-skylines Quote:
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This idea pertains just as much to the autonomous cars developments thread in the transportation section, so I have posted it there too.
A conclusion that most autonomous car enthusiasts have reached is that autonomous cars are bound to evolve into something more like personal rapid transit. This is because autonomous cars will never leave the roads, and thus they might as well simply be placed on tracks. Another conclusion that many have reached is that they will be much smaller. a little while ago, GMC unveiled an autonomous car project that had only two wheels; essentially a Segway with a roof and seats. There will also be no need for individual car ownership, saving families hundreds of billions of dollars in car payments. If you stop and think about this for a moment, cars are destined to become small, self-driving compartments on tracks, used by all but owned and operated by few. Sound familiar? ELEVATORS!! My idea is this: The system described in this thread could simply be an extension of the roads and streets of future cities. The unidirectional shaft design is very much like a road, with dedicated shafts for upward cabs and dedicated shafts for downward cabs. Imagine requesting a car to pull up on the road nearest your house/building (streets in front of every single house will become impractical, as nobody will own cars), getting in, and arriving not only at your building, but at your floor!! |
I was actually dreaming up a new elevator system similar to this so it's really cool to read about.
If you've ridden the Tower of Terror ride at Disney you may know that those cars are actually autonomous vehicles, and they share the lift shafts. When you board the car travels horizontally away from the door into the shaftway, and at the end, it moves forward back to the door. By de-coupling the car from the shaft / hoist equipment, I think it revolutionizes the elevator industry and design. This is what I dream of: Imagine a lobby of 6 or 12 doors. Using destination dispatch, you're assigned to a door, and a... let's call them 'Autonomous Lift Vehicles' (ALVs) is sent to pick you up. Once in the ALV, you move horizontally to the shared shaftway, and then up you go to your destination floor. When you arrive on the floor, there may only be 2 or 4 doors. You move horizontally out of the shaftway and to the door. This lets other ALVs pass by while that ALV is loading and unloading. Buildings no longer need to employ multiple shaftways for different zones (low rise, mid rise, high rise) or sky lobbies to reduce floor plate space. Now a few shaftways in the core handle all the up and down building traffic and the lobbies are offset from the shaftways. Similar to how an amusement park operates the trains of a roller coaster, the ALVs could be stored in a basement garage when not in use. Here they could be serviced without disruption to the building. Depending on demand levels, ALVs would be added and removed from the system as needed. Overnight on the weekend? Perhaps only 2 or 3 can serve the whole building. Friday afternoon rush hour? You might need 80 ALVs in circulation. Vertical travel could be compressed by using a moving blocking system similar to CBTC on subway and commuter rail lines. The biggest bottle neck would be passenger loading, which is why you could have a single vertical shaftway split into 2-8 different loading zones on the lobby floor. I wish I could work on this project, it seems as the next big evolutionary jump in elevator tech and ultimately high rise design. |
Very interesting but the manufacturers of such an elevator system need to make sure that the system is designed in such a way that any kind of collision between the cabins is avoided. There is higher chances of collision happening in such a system.My idea is that a high speed ,single big elevator cabin pulled up and down along a vertical shaft using magnetic control is equally effective and cheaper compared to the mentioned system.
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What is the point of this? besides granting the ability to make even more ridiculous designs that modern architecture seems to love so much.
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For one thing, it would allow conventional buildings to have more efficient elevator networks taking up less room, increasing leasable space.
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The Sideways Elevators of the Future Will be Shown Off for the First Time
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But besides that, there are capacity and speed improvements because a single elevator car no longer takes up an entire elevator shaft and can now share it with several elevator cars. Thyssenkrupp (at least when they still owned their elevator division) also claimed energy savings because of it. also from you " What is the point of this? *Inserts completely valid point of this system* " |
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