Dammam, September 11 (BUS): Imagine a linear smart city that puts people first and provides an unprecedented urban living experience while preserving surrounding nature and uses 100% renewable energy and 100% green transportation in all of its projects.
Imagine living in a car-free, carbon-free bubble with its mild microclimate. It depicts 500-meter-high mirrored facades with lush hanging gardens with urban planners and digital artists from the special effects industry working together to turn the utopia into a reality.
This is not a Hollywood fantasy or a surreal scenario for a movie, but a project in NEOM, Saudi Arabia, currently under construction, and part of Saudi Vision 2030.
It is called The Line and is located in NEOM.
Last July, His Royal Highness Mohammed bin Salman bin Abdulaziz, Crown Prince and Chairman of NEOM, announced the impressive designs and architectural concepts of the line.
The city’s revolutionary design represents NEOM’s goal to contribute to addressing some of the most pressing problems facing urban communities today by redefining conservation and placing nature at the forefront of development.
Thousands of people had a more realistic idea of it thanks to the impressive exhibition at Dhahran Gallery in Dammam to showcase the features of the first knowledge city. Detailed designs, architectural models and informative films for calligraphy were explained, and the project was presented everywhere. its glory.
The project was conceived by His Royal Highness Prince Mohammed bin Salman and brought to life by the Saudi youth who form an important element in its construction since the first brick.
They have had a great contribution in all its stages of engineering, design, strategic planning and innovation, especially their role in representing the exhibition that will visit Saudi Arabia to present The Line in a pictorial form close to reality.
The Saudis worked alongside a selection of designers from the brightest minds around the world to present the designs displayed in the exhibition.
The new layered concept of “Zero Gravity Urbanism” the line runs vertically, enabling its residents to move seamlessly through the city in three directions – up, down and through – and reach all amenities within a five-minute walk.
Far from all the amazing revolutionary urbanization, one of The Line’s main pillars is the preservation of the natural environment.
It crosses 170 km and features three distinct landscapes, each with diverse environments that make them ideal for different purposes. The Line’s geography includes snow-capped mountains up to 2,600 meters in height, with views across the Gulf of Aqaba and the Red Sea.
NEOM’s unique geographical location ensures a temperate climate, about 10°C cooler than the rest of the GCC.
The area is suitable for the conditions to build a sustainable city generated by solar, wind and hydrogen energy as the area has abundant sources of wind and solar energy.
NEOM provides an ideal environment for the development of renewable energy projects with 20 MJ/m² of permanent solar energy resources and an average wind speed of 10.3 m/s.
The city will conserve 95% of the land to enhance the lives of the residents and protect the environment. Along with planting 100 million native trees, shrubs and herbs by 2030 to combat desertification, restore degraded lands and restore wildlife habitat.
The Neom The Line project, also known as the “City of the Future”, will be entirely dependent on 100% renewable energy and 100% green transportation. It will be free of roads, cars, emissions, and uses solar, wind and hydrogen energy.
The city will achieve zero carbon emissions and clean air for all, reduce its infrastructure footprint and create unprecedented efficiencies for city jobs.
The line is guaranteed to become Saudi Arabia’s most elaborate and sophisticated project to date. This US$500 billion investment plan will be the next popular business center in the region due to its strategic location.
It is a prominent global commercial market and is considered ideal access to three of the world’s continents, with a flight destination of less than six hours to 40% of countries from all over the world, NEOM will provide direct access to the global and local Saudi markets.
This regional project embodies Saudi Arabia’s 2030 vision to redefine the country economically, sustainably, promote a futuristic lifestyle, and provide job opportunities for locals and people from all over the world.
This upcoming commercial attraction will allow entrepreneurs to embrace their latest ideas, in line with the project’s technological and sustainable environment.
For example, Line’s functional city layers will provide a home for 9 million residents, widely diverse business opportunities that ensure sustainable living, and low-cost regional centers for investors from around the world.
The project looks at educational, medical and cultural investment as part of its urban vision for the future.
NEOM welcomes investors and businessmen from all over the world to consider its strategic location as a new global business hub, and this eutopic destination has been designed to provide a profitable investment plan for all beneficiaries.