Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman on Monday revealed plans for a “line” city in the massive Neom project in the kingdom’s northwest.
According to the Saudi Arabian News Agency, this city revolves around man and represents a leading global model that achieves sustainability and the ideal of living in harmony with nature.
Mohammed bin Salman, who is the chairman of NEOM’s board of directors, proposed the idea and initial vision of the city in January last year.
The line’s designs reflect an environment free of streets, cars and greenhouse gases, helping preserve 95 percent of NEOM’s land for nature and relying on 100 percent renewable energy to put human health and well-being first. For transportation and infrastructure, like traditional cities.
One of the most important features of The Line is that it is only 200 meters wide, 170 kilometers long and 500 meters above sea level. According to “SPA”, this city will be built in an area of more than 34 square kilometers and will accommodate about 9 million people, which is completely unprecedented in cities of this size.
According to this project, “The Line” allows all residents to access all facilities and services within 5 minutes, in addition, there is a high-speed train that connects the two ends of the city in 20 minutes. connects
Mohammad bin Salman said: When we launched Khat, we promised to redefine the concept of urban development through the development of human-centered societies, and today Khat has achieved the ideal of life and addresses the urgent challenges facing humanity. These exceptional designs depict an inner city structure that is multi-layered and addresses the problems of traditional flat horizontal cities and achieves a perfect harmony between urban development and the preservation of nature with all its resources.
He added: We cannot ignore the environmental crisis as well as the lifestyle crisis facing the world’s cities, therefore, at NEOM, we seek to be the leader in providing new and innovative solutions, and we are determined to implement them today. The idea of ”building to the top”.
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According to SPA, The Line presents a new approach to city design that focuses on the concept of “zero gravity,” which means distributing and constructing city components in vertical layers that allow people to move in three directions. (top, bottom)., and also horizontally on each side).
Unlike the concept of tall buildings, this concept makes it easier to move between places of daily need, from work, schools, parks and homes within five minutes.
The two outer sides of the city are covered with mirrored glass surfaces that give it a unique character and allow its details to merge with nature. While the interior spaces are designed in innovative ways to create extraordinary experiences and unforgettable moments through a team of world-renowned architects and engineers working with the NEOM team.
A few days ago, the American newspaper Wall Street published an extensive report on Saudi Arabia’s plans to build a 120-kilometer skyscraper in the form of two parallel structures, which will be the world’s largest building crossing mountains and deserts and including residential buildings. According to the newspaper “Wall Street.” Street Journal, complexes, a football field and other huge facilities.
The newspaper said that the project, called the “Mirror Line”, is part of the “NEOM” project, which was announced by the Saudi Crown Prince many years ago.
The newspaper added that when bin Salman ordered officials to develop the arid lands in the northwest of the kingdom, he wanted to build something unique like the Egyptian pyramids.
In response, the planners came up with the world’s largest structure in the form of two buildings that are about 480 meters high and run parallel for 120 kilometers across coastal, mountainous and desert terrain, and according to hundreds of planning pages classified by corridors to are also connected. Documents obtained by the newspaper and details the idea for the first time.
Citing people familiar with this plan and the details contained in the documents, this newspaper announced that the cost of this project will reach one trillion dollars and the capacity of about five million people.
If eventually completed, the “Mirror Line” would stretch from the Gulf of Aqaba and bisect the mountain range that runs along the kingdom’s west coast.
Source: Lebanon Debate
