11th grade Science Model requiring Architecture+Science. Help if you can please. :)?
Question by Sid N: 11th grade Science Model requiring Architecture+Science. Help if you can please. 
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Well, we have to make a model on anything we’d like to. And our team has chosen the topic of a building of the future. Due to vertical expansion of cities, it has to be a skyscraper with maximum optimizations. Some of them are:–
* Interlocking floors for higher stability, providing more height.
* Tapering upwards, again for stability AND sunlight for the bottom floors and the buildings around.
* Solar panels on the side of the buildings that gets Sun in the afternoon for optimum money to energy ratio
* Foldable furniture inside the office rooms to conserve space, since there is an increasing shortage of space per capita.
* Elasticity against hurricanes and a pendulum inside the top floor to regain balance.
* Helipads for quick transport, which would be a expensive but not uncommon mode of transport by then.
I need help with the following topics:–
* Transportation through the building (Elevators, Escalators, optimum to minimize crowding)
* Emergency exits
* Ventilation
* Structural help against earthquakes
* Minimizing electricity wastage and the arrangement of electrical lines to not let the Thrust created by the current (By the Fleming’s Left Hand Rule) to weaken the building itself.
* Materials to be used for construction
* Waste disposal.
* The base of the building, so that the building doesn’t sink inside the ground by its own weight.
* Anything else you can think of.
Also it is nice to have a greenhouse on the top floors? Just asking 
Need more physics+practicality. Thanks for your help.
@ Tfanny: Excuse me, but windproof windows? Also methanol is derived from organic compounds and what do we make of office waste. i.e. metal, glass, paper, etc.?
And isn’t concrete+iron rods already used for foundations? Any stronger combos? Thanks.
Guys, I would appreciate detailed info on how and why of the improvements. Thanks.
Best answer:
Answer by tfanny
escalators seem better..id say stairs to so people can excersise and use less electricity and fire safety. id put large wind proof windows and skylights for all natural lighting. solar panels keep cool air/ warm air inside depending on the season. u can run the place on methanol ( garbage) like Johnson and Johnson does now so ud be recycling. in china i think they have made buildings were if theres an earthquake the building will sways with it so it wont fall. use ur waste to power ur building…and for foundation concrete always works!
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