Page 93 - Vertical City

THE NEW SMALL VERTICAL CITY 93

These 3 triangular neighborhoods form, with the 3
triangular empty spaces of the same surface that sepa-
rate them, a hexagon of 584,8 m (322,4 m) per side (and
1.013 m (644,8) m in width), which represents a territory
of 888.519 m² or 89 ha (270.049 m² or only 27 ha!) and a
gross population density of 337 h/ha (1.111 h/ha) for the
entire city.

One understands that it is possible to regroup
several of these hexagonal territories to form cities of
120.000, 210.000, 390.000, 570.000, even 1.110.000 habi-
tants 3 in a large hexagonal cluster made up of 37 cities of
30.000 inhabitants. This large hexagon of 32.875.203 m²
or 3.288 ha (9.981.801 m² or 999 ha) is inscribed in a circle
of 7,09 km (3,91 km) in diameter [figures 31 et 32].

All urban activities can take place in the towers,
provided they are enlarged by 48 m in diameter for the
first 10 levels (this corresponds to 13 levels for parking
construction and 6 levels accessible to heavy, long trailer
vehicles). Some activities indeed require a larger floor
surface, and it is thus there that we can envisage energy
production and waste treatment facilities, industrial
activity reorganized vertically, or large entertainment
theaters. There is no obstacle to imagine them also in
the form of large cantilevered bow windows.

All horizontal networks of flow, whether it be of
people, goods, materials, energy and information in all
its forms, are organized on a triangular grid between
the different towers above their bases, in other words

3 This corresponds approximately to the Brussels-Capital region that
covers 161 km² or 16,100 ha, thus a surface almost five times larger.