I came up with a design based off the rest of the groups concepts, I tried including aspects from everyone's work. The idea is the have the city placed inside of a glass sphere. The top half of the city is the more vibrant area with a higher population, the underside is dark and corrupted- for the building underneath Charlotte had the idea of using the shape of the Titanic Quarter but in our city it's used as a prison block. In the centre is a dome based of the Victoria Square dome and on top is a similar statue to the Beacon of Hope which is holding up an eye which monitors the city. The pipe like pieces coming from the bottom are used to suck up nutrients or important materials from the abandoned Earth below. We where also thinking that maybe the gravity isn't exactly right inside the dome so pieces of land or structures are stuck floating inside as well. Above is my design Also doodled some ideas down on the bus, just playing around with the colour scheme and how the buildings would look inside the sphere. I though of maybe having it all laid out in rows leading to the centre but I don't really like how it looks.. It would probably look much nicer just as a cluster of buildings, basically like a real city. This is only for the top half though, I still want to test out some ideas for the bottom half! Maybe using the colours Viola used in her concept. Bus doodles Based off this general idea we've spilt up the modelling tasks, and we may modify the design a bit as we go along. First I'm going to model the Beacon of Hope statue but changing it's design slightly. I was thinking of having the statue blind folded with cloth wrapped around were it's eyes would be, and then above it is the eye looking over the city. Either I'm going to make the eye robotic or something like The Eye of Sauron from LOTR - I'm also going to attempted to animated it looking around at the city below. Below are rough concepts I drew out and some work in progress shots of the model so far. I'm not sure whether i'll add more wires to the chest area because it was starting to look too messy.
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Below are the designs I came up with. 'Victoria' and 'United Division'
Mechanical eyes that control the weather and environment for city Rough Illusion concept
I started doodling done some random ideas I had, most of them being based of a dome structure (like Victoria Square) or glass buildings- I was kind of going for a futuristic look or something to do with a hive. The city could be clustered inside of a giant structure which acts as a protective shield. Other ideas I had were a microscopic city, a city growing on bacteria and this could be linked with what the health care is like in Belfast and how healthy people are in general. I also had an idea for the city to be floating in the air only it's shaped like some sort of 'religious' spire or symbol, the city itself would be placed in the middle with all the communities living among each other in peace. Keeping with the whole glass structure concepts I was coming up with, I had the idea of two cube structures- the design is based off the Lanyon Plaza. One either side are two different religions which live separately to each other, the cubes are only connected by a bridge. This could be a way of representing the division of beliefs in Belfast put the bridge is supposed to represent peace between the two.. even though there actually isn't any. It's basically the complete opposite of the spire idea. I go past the Lanyon Plaza everyday on my way to uni and have always liked its design and shape so I might develop this idea a bit more into something that the group could possibly use. The final random ideas I had where to do with the city be stuck in some sort of air pocket, so the pressure of the air causes the city to take a certain shape or the gravity is messed up so the city is upside down (depending on what way you look at it). Based off the upside down drawing I drew an idea where the city is on top and underneath are trees rooted to the ground. The forest side could provide resources to the city while the city provides water and nutrients to the forest.
Real Life Projects/ Concepts http://www.express.co.uk/news/weird/755878/Floating-city-China-Yueyang-Fata-Morgana More examples here: http://inhabitat.com/7-futuristic-floating-cities-that-could-save-humanity/ http://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/travel_news/article-3192446/Would-live-floating-city-Fascinating-3-000ft-vessel-Meriens-shaped-like-giant-manta-ray-home-7-000-people-without-producing-waste.html Film/Animation Laputa: Castle in the Sky (1986) WALL.E (2008) Aincrad from Sword Art Online Star Wars Cloud City Stargate city of Atlantis Games BioShock Infinite Gravity Rush Final Fantasy 13 cocoon Monument Valley game Artist Concepts http://darkhikarii.deviantart.com/ http://tryingtofly.deviantart.com/ http://rynkadraws.deviantart.com/ http://laurensspruit.deviantart.com/
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Belfast (/ˈbɛl.fɑːst/ or /ˈbɛl.fæst/; from Irish: Béal Feirste, meaning "rivermouth of the sandbanks") is the capital and largest city of Northern Ireland. Belfast became a substantial settlement in the 17th century after being established as a town by Sir Arthur Chichester, which was initially settled by Protestant English and Scottish migrants at the time of the Plantation of Ulster. Belfast was a centre of the Irish linen, tobacco processing, rope-making and shipbuilding industries: in the early 20th century, Harland and Wolff, which built the RMS Titanic, was the world's biggest and most productive shipyard. Belfast played a key role in the Industrial Revolution, and was a global industrial centre until the latter half of the 20th century. It has sustained a major aerospace and missiles industry since the mid 1930s. Industrialisation and the inward migration it brought made Belfast Ireland's biggest city at the beginning of the 20th century. Today, Belfast remains a centre for industry, as well as the arts, higher education, business, and law, and is the economic engine of Northern Ireland. The city suffered greatly during the Troubles, but latterly has undergone a sustained period of calm, free from the intense political violence of former years, and substantial economic and commercial growth. Coat of arms with motto "Pro Tanto Quid Retribuamus" (Latin: "what shall we give in return for so much") The city of Belfast has the Latin motto "Pro tanto quid retribuamus." This is taken from Psalm 116 Verse 12 in the Latin Vulgate Bible and is literally "For so much what shall we repay " The verse has been translated in bibles differently – for example as "What shall I render unto the Lord for all his benefits toward me?". It is also translated as "In return for so much, what shall we give back?" Aerial view of Belfast.
Brief History The history of Belfast as a settlement goes back to the Iron Age, but its status as a major urban centre dates to the 18th century. Belfast today is the capital of Northern Ireland. Belfast was throughout its modern history a major commercial and industrial centre, but the late 20th century saw a decline in its traditional industries, particularly shipbuilding. The city's history has been marked by violent conflict between Irish Catholics and Irish Protestants which has caused many working class areas of the city to be split into Catholic and Protestant areas. In recent years the city has been relatively peaceful and major redevelopment has occurred, especially in the inner city and dock areas. Culture
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Non-renewable energy sources Nuclear power-The main nuclear fuels are uranium and plutonium, both of which are radioactive metals. Nuclear fuels are not burned to release energy. Instead, heat is released from changes in the nucleus. Coal, oil and natural gas, just as with power stations, burning these fossil fuels, creates heat energy which is used to boil water. The kinetic energy in the expanding steam spins turbines, which drive generators to produce electricity or other energy. Renewable energy sources Solar: Energy from sunlight is captured in solar panels and converted into electricity. Wind: Wind turbines (modern windmills) turn wind energy into electricity. Tidal: The movement of tides drives turbines. Wave: The movement of seawater in and out of a cavity on the shore compresses trapped air, driving a turbine. Geothermal: Heat from the earth. Steam can be used for heating or to power turbines creating electricity. Hydrological: Energy harnessed from the movement of water through rivers, lakes and dams. Biomass: Decaying plant or animal waste. An organic material, which can be burned to provide energy, eg heat, or electricity. Wood: Obtained from felling trees, burned to generate heat and light. Biomass and Wood can only be considered renewable IF crops, plants and trees are replanted. Energy Statistics for Northern Ireland ... applies to Belfast too The Energy in Northern Ireland report is a new publication, first published in March 2016, which aims to provide a comprehensive and accessible overview of key statistics and information relating to energy in Northern Ireland. (Source) Climate The climate can affect how much energy we use and what for. For example in American cities they would use more electricity for air conditioning where as in Belfast it is cooler so we would use more energy for heating.
Low Carbon and Renewable Energy Economy (LCRE) statistics Energy Sector Enterprises
Electricity Consumption (Belfast highlighted) Renewable Electricity
When evaluating energy sources you must consider:
Depending on what the energy source is it can create jobs for people and improve lifestyles. References:
We decided to stick with Belfast as our city as we all already did a lot of research on it, for some of us we actually live there and we can walk around and get first hand references, so there is a lot of potential.
So how do things float? There are lots of ways, realistically it can be done using water, air pressure or magnets. Fictionally the list is endless.. and usually very magical. Float: rest or move on or near the surface of a liquid without sinking. Move or hover slowly and lightly in a liquid or the air; drift. Law of Buoyancy: Archimedes' principle, physical law of buoyancy, discovered by the ancient Greek mathematician and inventor Archimedes, stating that any body completely or partially submerged in a fluid (gas or liquid) at rest is acted upon by an upward, or buoyant, force the magnitude of which is equal to the weight of the fluid. Pumice- When rocks are submerged in water, they tend to sink because of their weight. They don't float, but pumice does. Pumice is the only rock that can float on water. It is full of air bubbles and is less dense than water. People have even started using it as decoration in fish tanks, it gives the impression of a floating islands. (Source) These pieces of pumice have also been advertised to look like the floating mountains from James Cameron's Avatar. Although in the movie the mountains float based off a magnetic field. The Hallelujah Mountains from Avatar (2009) The Hallelujah Mountains (Na'vi name: Ayram alusìng meaning "Floating Mountains") are floating islands that circulate slowly in the magnetic currents like icebergs at sea, scraping against each other and the towering mesa-like mountains of the region. On Pandora, huge outcroppings of unobtanium rip loose from the surface and float in the magnetic vortices due to the Meissner Effect. The Huang Shan mountains inspired the design of these mountains. Magnets- We can also make things levitate in real life using magnets and Meissner Effect. The two primary issues involved in magnetic levitation are lifting forces: providing an upward force sufficient to counteract gravity, and stability: ensuring that the system does not spontaneously slide or flip into a configuration where the lift is neutralized.
Floating on water- Icebergs can float for many reasons. The first is due to one of water's many amazing properties: Aside from being necessary for all life (and refreshing on hot days), water is one of the few substances that is slightly denser as a liquid than as a solid. This is why ice cubes float in water. Second, and slightly more interestingly: Most icebergs actually contain a lot of air. (Like pumice!) Far from being the solid blocks of ice many people imagine, icebergs are riddled with billions of tiny, trapped air bubbles, giving the huge bergs their white appearance. Third, icebergs are made from fresh water . Because of the dissolved salts in ocean water, it is denser than freshwater, adding bouyancy to the icebergs. An object will float if the gravitational (downward) force is less than the buoyancy (upward) force. So, in other words, an object will float if it weighs less than the amount of water it displaces. This explains why a rock will sink while a huge boat will float. The rock is heavy, but it displaces only a little water. It sinks because its weight is greater than the weight of the small amount of water it displaces. A huge boat, on the other hand, will float because, even though it weighs a lot, it displaces a huge amount of water that weighs even more. Plus, boats are designed specifically so that they will displace enough water to assure that they'll float easily. Illusion of floating- A levitation illusion is one in which a magician appears to defy gravity by making an object or person float in the air. The subject may appear to levitate unassisted, or it may be performed with the aid of another object (such as a silver ball floating around a cloth) in which case it is termed a "suspension". Various methods are used to create such illusions. The levitation of a magician or assistant can be achieved by a concealed platform or hidden wires, or in smaller-scale illusions by standing on tiptoe in a way that conceals the foot which is touching the ground. References
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