Bowl-balconies Condo

This is a rectangular-prism building containing hundreds of luxurious apartments with the only horizontal-arch balcony-surfaces in our city.

 

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Table of Contents:

  1. Introduction
  2. Vocabulary
  3. Dimensions & Layout
  4. Special Features
  5. Population Over Time
  6. Location (Images Begin)
  7. Ground-level Patios
  8. Balconies Off-set Level by Level
  9. Interiors
  10. 2023 Update:  2022 Scale-model in Minecraft

 

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Introduction:

Inspired by the balcony of Princess Jasmine in Aladdin, this neighborhood is a luxurious apartment complex with water-film-walls pouring down like ethereal curtains from each half-bowl-shaped balcony. These water-film-walls, like extra-thin, precisely-shaped, man-made waterfalls, are so clear they look nearly transparent –until you touch them, at which point, below your finger for several inches, there are the bends in the view beyond them until the water comes back together due to its covalent electron bonds. This neighborhood is one of Inisfree’s answers to its Dinotopia-inspired Waterfall City II; nearly the same level of waterfall-based features, but much less of the ‘white noise’ that comes with full-scale waterfalls all around and throughout such a construct. Here, the waterfalls are membrane-thin and only a whisper (compared to the soothing, rumbling, dull roar of large waterfalls elsewhere in Inisfree).

 

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Vocabulary:

con·do·min·i·um
/ˌkändəˈminēəm/
noun
noun: condominium
  1. 1.
    NORTH AMERICAN
    a building or complex of buildings containing a number of individually owned apartments or houses.
    • each of the individual apartments or houses in a condominium complex.
    • the system of ownership by which condominiums operate, in which owners have full title to the individual apartment or house and an undivided interest in the shared parts of the property.
  2. 2.
    the joint control of a country’s or territory’s affairs by other countries.
    • a state so governed.
      plural noun: condominiums
      “Sudan was from 1899 an Anglo-Egyptian condominium”
Origin
early 18th century: modern Latin, from con- ‘together with’ + dominium ‘right of ownership’

 

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Dimensions & Layout:

Standing a dozen stories tall, this construct has room for hundreds of house-sized luxury apartments (864 to be precise; 72 per story) arranged in a rectangular outline around a central, open-air courtyard full of Disney World-quality landscaping. The outer apartments, per story, are arranged in two lines of 9 and two lines of 13; 44. The inner apartments, per story, are arranged in two lines of 5 and two lines of 9; 28.

  • All of them have at least one full side full of windows and doors opening out to their wide, half-bowl-shaped balcony; one balcony per apartment.
  • 48 are corner apartments, meaning they have two full sides exposed to the outside, both full of windows, with an extra-large balcony which wraps around this outer corner.
  • Balconies are offset every other story so that the water-film-walls pouring from their curved edges fall down between the balconies of the level immediately below them. All falling water is recollected in troughs doubling as spillways and recyclers; they cycle the water back into successive water-film-wall source spouts feeding into thin, semi-circle-shaped ‘moats’ one inch wide and several feet long.
  • Each apartment is 10′ tall and has about 3,600 square feet of floor-space (60’x60′).
  • The 48 inside-corner apartments, and the apartments which border them on the inside rectangular series of apartments, are not square-shaped like all the other apartments in this construct, as that would prevent them from having sides exposed to the courtyard here.

 

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Special Features:

The hallways which connect these apartments are on each story and are rectangles which separate the outer from inner apartments. Each hallway is ~60′ wide and doubles as a low-speed street complete with the same ‘slide-walks’ (moving sidewalks) you will find in the airport. Residents and guests park their vehicles by driving into the 1st-story hallway, turning to go toward the AIOW nearest their apartment, and taking its service-lift, like an elevator for vehicles, up to their floor, then driving out into that story’s hallway, then driving into the garage that is one of the rooms of their apartment here.

 

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Population Over Time:

Roughly 1 more person made this neighborhood/structure his/her home (or at least their 2nd/vacation home) every ~4 years from 2013 to 23000 A.D..

  1. 2013:  the first guest or resident here
  2. 2022:  ~3 living in this neighborhood/structure this year
  3. ~23000 A.D. and beyond:  ~50,000 at capacity

 

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Location:

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Ground-level Patios:

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Balconies Off-set Level by Level:

These images just show the general idea; the balconies are not as primitive as in the animated movie, nor enclosed by window-walls.

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Interiors:

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2023 Update:  2022 Scale-model in Minecraft

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