New City Project (Ajax)

New City Project
Raji:Kutha Anyar, ꦤꦼꦮ ꦕꦶꦠꦪ, Rezese:Titun Ilu Apopyrã
A current digital projection of a coastal facing portion of the Kopiona Poi City project.
General information
Status	In Development
Type	Residential, Commerical, Infrastructural
Location	Kopiona Poi City, Pulau Keramat - Ypau Qipie, Sante Reze
Construction started	2015-2020
Estimated completion	2035-2040
Height
Roof	21 m (69 ft)
Technical details
Floor area	4 square miles (10 km2)
Design and construction
Architect	Tjajana Cahyadi, Hauwa Kuarahyresê
Developer	Ruamah Emas of Pulau Keramat, Scipian Board

The New City Project, founded in combination with the government of Pulau Keramat and the Scipian Board of Sante Reze’s Nine Cousins, is a infrastructural project looking to develop large scale seasteading options in both nations, citing both environmental and population density based concerns as inciting the partnership and development of such plans. The joint project was first declared in 2014, with the first extension being developed in Kopiona Poi City. The prototype has been cited as being able to host approximately 3,500 persons, but development anticipates that the fully completed cells would be able to comfortably host approximately 5,000 persons per unit.

History

Concerns with overpopulation within the Nine Cousins has contemporarily resulted in a larger movement of industrial presence away from the Scipian territories, due to rising rents, which in itself has resulted in financial costs as jobs have shrunk within the region. As more of the population has found itself incapable of affording the increasing rent costs, the Scipian Board began internal inquiry towards city expansion options. At the same time, the Ruamah Emas of Pulau Keramat issued a 2012 press release that projected the population increases anticipated within capital region within the next decade, citing data that forecast a massive increase in population density and environmental concerns that would gradually lead to decreasing quality of life and mobility within the area. Both nations’ concerns were discussed during a Vespanian Exchange Institute ‘Pertumbuhan Analysis’ report while discussing energy options, and subsequent round table dialogues were held with speculation towards trans-national partnership opportunities to this front. After one year of deliberation and conference, both nations had signed onto an agreement that would provide funding and oversight to a joint task force assigned responsibility over the creation of two proto-type cities; one in Kopiona Poi City’s southernmost district, and one on the mainland-facing coast of Ypau Qipie.

Project Development

The projects themselves are oriented heavily on green technology and self-sustainability in terms of food and energy production, utilizing pre-existing technology and adapting batteries, biofuel production, and maritime energy production in conjecture with one another for the sake of powering the seasteds. Given each unit’s proximity to the larger city, the seasteds are largely anticipated to provide residential zoning with some allocation and spacing for commercial needs, as to avoid complications that may emerge with large scale industrial development being placed on seastedding options. The completion of the Kopiona Poi prototype is anticipated by 2035, with the Ypau Qipie prototype being completed by 2040. After a 2 year trial period with both completed prototypes, a conference is anticipated to analyze the value and effectiveness of said projects before affirming further funding and approval for continuation of the large scale development of ‘New City’ units.

The project has been funded by the Vespanian Exchange Institute, with board members citing the interest in cross-regional cooperation and development that projects like this encourage. Project oversight has been assigned to the “New City Project Taskforce”, which partners with the Tau Hariuma Institute of Technology, as well as the __SR_SCHOOL__. A large portion of funding has also gone through the Trans-Makrian Development Bank, given interest in seeing how the expansion of this project may apply to other coastal, population dense areas of partner nations.