5 amazing futuristic buildings made with LEGO

With new technologies in construction, churches are no longer the highest points of western cities. Now, tall buildings shape urban landscapes and transform the way people occupy space.

Interested in how architects would deal with the problems of future construction, the Chicago Museum of Science and Industry distributed kits of LEGO pieces to see what ideas they might have. See the result:

1. Building that makes the most of ocean water

Concerned about water supply and the development of sustainable sources of energy, the architects of Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill proposed a structure that desalines seawater for human consumption and harnesses tidal energy for electricity production.

Project: Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill

Project: Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill

2. A bet for the future: modular buildings

For Adjaye Associates, modular constructions - such as containers, for example - represent a drastic reduction in time spent on the construction site, and depend on less building materials and water.

Project: Adjaye Associates

3. More houses, fewer cars

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to live in a city where mass transit really worked? Undoubtedly, people would stop calling on the car to travel long distances and traffic jams would cease to exist.

The idea of ​​wHY's architects is to build buildings without parking, as people would move around the city using public transportation only. The vacant space would allow them to be built in the condominiums more housing and living areas.

Project: wHY

4. For a less standardized city

Kengo Kuma's intention is to show that city buildings do not have to follow the old geometric pattern - always square and with straight lines - but can come out of sameness using curves.

Project: Kengo Kuma

5. The bus stop that reuses rainwater

Bringing business and pleasure together: UrbanLab's idea is to reuse water accumulated at bus stops for the supply of homes and businesses. In addition to the LEGO parts, a 3D printer was also used in the project design.

Project: UrbanLab

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