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Middle East
The Collective — A Domed City for the Future
The Collective is a visionary, enclosed city-destination in the Middle East designed as the world’s largest transformable urban environment, powered by advanced AI, XR technology, and sustainable infrastructure. Conceived as a self-contained ecosystem for living, working, and playing, this monumental blue-sky concept redefines what it means to build a future city.
A Structural and Environmental Marvel
At the heart of The Collective is a vast ETFE dome—a tensile membrane canopy suspended from the superstructures of towering vertical anchors, much like a suspension bridge. This architectural feat creates the largest enclosed climate-controlled environment ever constructed, shielding inhabitants from extreme climates while offering a breathtaking and adaptable interior.
Districts of Life: Vertical & Experiential Urbanism
The city is organized into distinct neighborhoods and districts, subtly divided for function while maintaining visual and thematic cohesion:
Ground Level: Public amenities, entertainment zones, cultural venues, dining, and retail.
Upper Levels: Residential units, office spaces, education centers, and health facilities.
Subterranean Levels: Infrastructure, utilities, transit, parking, logistics, and support systems.
The entire interior is layered vertically, promoting walkability, accessibility, and integrated use of space.
Living Landscape: Nature Meets Design
Nature is woven into the urban fabric with suspended gardens, waterfalls, lakes, parklands, cavernous spaces, and floating islands. Urban farming and sustainable horticulture provide beauty, food, and function. These features serve not only as aesthetic elements but as core contributors to the city’s sustainability mission.
Transformative Environments Through XR & AI
The Collective is not static—it evolves. Surfaces across the dome and inner structures are embedded with LED mesh, projection mapping systems, and responsive materials. These systems allow for full environmental transformation—day to night cycles, seasonal shifts, brand activations, cultural theming, and immersive storytelling.
XR & AR Layers:
Digital overlays offer wayfinding, real-time data, commerce, advertising, gamification, and access to digital/virtual environments within physical space.
AI Systems:
Control environmental parameters, user experience personalization, energy efficiency, and interactive engagement across all sectors.
Sustainable Systems and Water Reclamation
Water is life—and The Collective uses every opportunity to harvest and recycle it:
Rain & Condensation Capture:
The dome surface collects water naturally, directing it to internal systems.
Wind-Powered Hydro-Reclamation:
Passive systems extract and condense atmospheric moisture.
Subterranean Cisterns:
Massive water storage and filtration facilities under the city process and redistribute water for cooling, agriculture, and consumption.
A New Standard for Urban Living
More than a city, The Collective is a prototype for future civilization—a climate-resilient, socially connected, immersive living space that merges technology, sustainability, and humanity under one visionary structure. It is both a haven and a spectacle, equally functional and transformative.
