SOM comparte plan para la nueva ciudad inteligente de Omán

La firma de arquitectura Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM), con sede en Chicago, compartió representaciones de un nuevo edificio de 100,000 kilómetros con capacidad para 14.8 personas.² ciudad inteligente planificada por Omán en las afueras de su capital, Mascate, exclusivamente con CNN. To take shape in four phases from 2024-2045, Sultan Haitham City will be "roughly equivalent in size to Beverly Hills," California, but with nearly three times the population. On the drawing board are 200,000 homes, a university, schools, health facilities and mosques west of Muscat. In line with Oman Vision 2040 that includes reducing the country's dependance on oil, the development aims to use Internet of Things devices to gather and use data to optimize efficiency. Solar energy, wastewater recycling and waste-to-energy plants are planned, as well as design features aimed at countering temperatures that often exceed 100° F.