New York. – When the Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman ordered officials to develop land in the arid northwest of the state, He sought something as ambitious as the pyramids of Egypt.

The response of urban planners is a plan world’s largest structure, Two parallel buildings 487 meters high and are connected by a 120 km long footbridgeThose who walk in a line through coastal, mountainous and desert areas according to hundreds of pages of confidential planning documents thought in detail for the first time.

Project Name mirror line– Based on an earlier announcement by Prince Mohammed There is a plan to build a linear community and it is expected to cost up to a billion dollars and it shelters about five million people According to people familiar with the plan and documents, when it is fully completed, to which it has been agreed Wall Street Journal.

High speed train will pass under glass buildings, according to the documents, which fall from the last date to the last. To feed its residents, the project estimates a Integrated vertical farming in buildings. will be for fun a sports stadium over 300 meters high, It will also have a feature yacht harbor It is situated under an arch of two buildings.

The Line of Mirrors is part of a series of high-level projects that make Neom, A development the size of Massachusetts envisioned by Prince Mohammed Diversify the state’s economy and stop relying on oil.

Owned by Saudi Arabia’s Sovereign Wealth Fund, Neom seeks Attract foreign investment and create thousands of new jobs.

But attracting significant foreign funding and interest has so far been difficult, because Many Western countries and companies have boycotted the kingdom and its de facto ruler Prince Mohammed over Riyadh’s human rights record. Following the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi by Saudi agents in 2018.

The separation by the West ended last week after a high-profile summit between Prince Mohammed and US President Biden, which Potentially paving the way for more foreign investment to come into NEOM.

Besides, the state is getting windfall benefits from high oil priceswhich has allowed Prince Mohammed to move forward with ambitious projects such as Line of Mirrors, which aims to Turn your country into one of the world’s main destinationsHowever project plans may still change.

If Saudi Arabia manages to build it, this structure will be unlike anything else in the world. This is already a challenge for the urban planners who are designing this, For example, they face a completion date in 2030 imposed by the Prince’s National Transformation Plan and must solve many issues, such as l . management ofMillions of birds migrate through the corridors that will traverse the structure.

A preliminary assessment of the impact of the line of mirrors, prepared in January 2021, indicated that The project will have to be built in phases and may take 50 years, Neom employees expressed concern in the document about the possibility thatPeople avoided living in an elevated environment after the pandemic and because the sheer size of the structure changed the dynamics of groundwater flow in the desert plains and restricted the movement of birds and other animals.

The designs are reminiscent of the neighbor’s real estate era Dubai, before the global financial crisis, a city that Prince Mohammed has praised for its speed of development and ambition. The emirate built the world’s tallest tower, about 823 meters, a palm-shaped island of villas and apartments, and an archipelago resembling a world map.

But, like in Dubai, Not all planned projects in Saudi Arabia will be compulsorily completed, During the previous oil boom, the country had plans for the world’s tallest skyscraper, which were later shelved. NEOM has already gone through the master plan and the exodus of foreign workers frustrated by the pace of development and management culture. Wall Street Journal.

The Line of Mirrors is designed by American studio Morphosis Architects, Founded by Pritzker Architecture Prize winner Thom Mayne, and has the participation of at least nine other design and engineering consultants, including Montreal-based WSP Global and New York-based Thornton Tomasetti. They propose to build it in phases creating structures about 790 meters tall that will be connected with a line with variable heights of up to 487 metersTaller than the Empire State Building.

Morphosis did not respond to requests WSJ. For their part, WSP and Thornton Tomasetti declined to comment.

“They’re going to do something that’s never been done before,” Javier Quintana de Una, executive director of the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat, a Chicago-based nonprofit.

If completed, the line of mirrors It will start from the Gulf of Aqaba and cross a mountain range that extends along the coast. It will continue east with a mountain resort complex and then another complex that includes the Saudi Arabian government and a “Aerotropolis” – a metropolitan subregion whose infrastructure, land use and economy is centered around an airport – in the desert plains, according to planning documents.

A full linear plan of 168 km is known as Line. It is a concept that has interested urban planners for more than a century. In 1882, the Spanish architect Arturo Soria y Mata proposed the construction of an elaborate urban development Inspired the “Ciudad Lineal” district of Madrid.

Prince Mohammed first unveiled his idea of ​​a linear, car-free, zero-pollution city in January 2021. in one video, Designed the project as an evolution of human achievementsimilar to the discovery of penicillin and the landing on the moon, and A way to save lives lost due to pollution and traffic accidents.

“La Linea is a project that considers a revolution of civilization that puts human beings first”, The President said.

Exactly a year ago, Neom faced criticism from human rights groups forcible displacement of tribes from the land, prompting the security forces to shoot a resident. In the video, Prince Mohammed said the line was intended to allow one million residents to meet on a daily five-minute walk and travel end-to-end in 20 minutes. The project will be powered by renewable energy and protect nature in the untouched North West, with details to be given later, as indicated. Originally, urban planners envisioned communities located along the line.

But in a private meeting, the prince asked those working on the line to think boldly about architecture, saying: “I want to build my pyramids”, reported last year Wall Street Journal.

urban planner according to documents studied how to increase the population of the line to six million people, The Line of Mirrors covers up to five million inside buildings. to feed people Vegetables will be “autonomously cut and packaged” and transported to “community kitchens” and “charming kitchens”, According to the documents. Residents must pay a subscription for breakfast, lunch and dinner.

One of the biggest challenges of a structure consisting of two tall buildings parallel to each other is shadow that is made, Documents say that lack of sunlight can be harmful to health.

Urbanization also faces a unique challenge in the world of construction: Earth’s curvature. As the Earth tilts by about 20 centimeters per kilometer, the document says, the designers used d. has proposedPunch a hole in the top of the 793-meter module to “fold” structures around the world.

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