Clean Technica
It’s one of the world’s greatest dreams, which must have entered the mind of any child old enough to wield a bucket and spade. Just what would you do with two billion tons of sand and a free hand?
Renowned New York designer Dror Benshetrit knows what he’d do. He’d build HavvAda, one of the most forward thinking eco-islands in the world, which challenges many of the established principles of high-density living and brings people together into a social whole.
So, first things first: you take your bucket and spade and create some hills. Six of them all in a circle, to be precise. Now you have an eco-island with some interesting bumps and a central valley. But where are the people going to live?
Challenge number one: get rid of the skyscrapers. These buildings have long been criticised by environmentalists because of the huge foundations needed to support their weight. In short: the taller they are, the bigger the hole you have to fill with concrete at the bottom.
So lay them down flat to give even weight distribution: easy. But long straight things are pretty boring, so how about we wrap them around something… those hills for example?
