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Italian design studio Lazzarini has unveiled a new floating city concept shaped like a turtle. The idea is that ancient people believed that the world existed on the back of a giant space turtle. The Lazzarini designer thought it would be interesting to get a feel of living on a floating creature therefore, developed the concept of a floating city for 60,000 guests, which will be shaped like a turtle, powered by solar energy.
As planned, it will be a huge floating continent that is twice the size of the Roman Colosseum. The “terayacht” concept, is called Pangeos because it takes its name from the huge continent “Pangaea” that existed many years ago. The Pangeos will include hotels, malls, parks, an aircraft runway, and helipads.
The turtle-shaped vessel will be 550 meters long and 610 meters wide and will be built in 8 years. If the project is successfully built, it will be the largest water structure ever built by humans. Despite the huge size of the vessel, it will be able to reach speeds of 5 knots thanks to nine engines with a capacity of 16,800 hp. each. While swimming, the large wings will be powered by the breaking waves that will produce energy. In addition, solar panels are installed on the roof, which provides part of the necessary clean energy to power the terayacht.
As mentioned earlier, the ship will have its own airport and helipads, they will be placed on the roof of the structure. Pangeos will also have its own shipyard called Terashipyard which will be 650 meters wide and 600 meters long, providing direct access to the sea.
Obviously now this is just a concept of an incredible project, but Pierpaolo Lazzarini who is the author of the concept hopes that his project will soon become a reality, the estimated cost of building the project is 8 billion dollars.
It’s an interesting project, and I would love to see it, but what concerns me is that if there were going to be big waves or storms, how would they handle it? Because of the size of the instruction, the speed to run from the natural phenomena would be low. The construction could tear apart or sink. Furthermore, sanitation needs like water treatment would be a challenge.
I think such innovation has a long way to go because,. in theory, it works, but when it comes to reality I have concerns.
I would say that it looks pretty nice although it looks unsafe. It’s more like a small island for rich people than a ship travelling anywhere far. It will probably stay only in safe seas. The next thing I think is maybe it is some kind of pretext to try to catch a Megalodon? if it’s not I don’t really know how they came up with these ideas. For me, it is quite funny.