Dubai-based developer, URB, has unveiled its vision of the community of the future, dubbed XZERO City, to be built in the southern part of Kuwait, northeast of the border of Saudi Arabia..It’s right out H.G. Well’s The Time Machine, or an episode of Star Trek..According to URB, “XZERO is a planned sustainable community, providing a net zero carbon lifestyle for 100,000 residents, in balance with nature. The city will provide food & energy security whilst promoting a green circular economy in an eco-friendly live, work & visit destination.”. XZERO landscapeXZERO landscape .XZERO will cover 1,600 hectares, including 30,000 homes, with a plan for 30,000 green jobs, sectors ranging from medical, tourist, technology, education, retail and entertainment..Baharash Bagherian is the project’s lead architect and founder of URB..“The heart of this project is the unique resilient landscape, which is multifunctional and designed to promote health, wellbeing and biodiversity. The landscape is the social glue to the entire city, which will promote a vibrant neighborhood whilst connecting residents to all amenities within minutes,” says Bagherian. “The landscape is integrated with wadis to enhance resilience and livability whilst also promoting a variation of habitats for wildlife.”.“The landscape is also productive, incorporating many different urban farming methods such as community gardens, bio domes, aquaponics, vertical farms and bio-saline agriculture.”.Bagherian was the masterminded behind the designs of various sustainable cities, including recently launched projects such as AlNama, Nexgen, The Sustainable City in Yiti, The Sustainable City Yas Island, with many others in the planning process.. XZERO bikepathXZERO bikepath .“XZERO is planned and developed to be the most walkable metropolis on the planet,” says Bagherian. “Primary and secondary walking networks are properly shaded and linked with other means of green transportation like as cycling and electric vehicles.” .“This will provide inhabitants with the safest, most convenient, and most pleasurable transit to all aspects of the city. The city has 35 kilometers of designated jogging and cycling trails and nine kilometres of equestrian track.”.The landscape design is as a Biophilic city, which is an approach to architecture that seeks to connect building occupants more closely to nature. .“Biophilic designed buildings incorporate things like natural lighting and ventilation, natural landscape features and other elements for creating a more productive and healthy built environment for people,” says Bagherian. “XZERO City will provide many environmental, social and economic advantages for its citizens, such as lowering air pollution, boosting biodiversity, controlling water, improving social contact and uniting the community.”. XZERO domeXZERO dome .“To create a resilient urban environment, XZERO employs holistic water-sensitive urban design strategies, which provide many benefits to its residents as well as the environment, such as reducing stormwater discharge, protecting and enhancing ecological assets, and providing residents with a high quality of life in any event.”.Bagherian sees XZERO City as a tourist destination as well..“XZERO will encourage ecotourism to help the community while improving the tourist experience,” he says. “It will become a unique travel destination as an edge-less city encircled by a natural reserve and will include hospitality components such as a 5-star Eco resort and eco-lodges, a nature dialogue center, and an ecotourism visitor center..“Sustainable tourism will create more jobs and long-term economic prospects for the community.”.Bagherian has not yet determined when the project will be completed.. XZERO gardeningXZERO gardening
