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Headline: Japanese Designers Aim To Build The World's Biggest Greenhouse

Caption: A Japanese design company wants to build the world's biggest greenhouse 'in human history’. EASTERN Design Office wants to create the spectacular building, named 'Over the Valley', not for growing vegetables but for creating a touristic destination out of a valley. By covering a valley in the Chinese Hebel province with glass roofs, EASTERN Design Office want to create a mountainous "Utopia". The large-scale proposal imagines a botanical garden as part of a masterplan that will transform the valley into a touristic destination which aims to cover the entire grounds with beautiful inside trees and other species of flora from the Hainan Island. The 15-Hectare Valley is surrounded by 286m to 310m high mountains for which there is currently a plan to transform them into exhibition centers, conference halls, hotels, sports facilities, shops and residential developments. The height of the mountains is what urges them to call the project the biggest greenhouse ever built. "It is not planned to do land formation, because it costs a lot. We use the original shape of the valley to build a greenhouse. The most beautiful shape is nature itself." The Kyoto-based studio has traced the topography of the valley and used it to guide the shape of the all-glass, flat greenhouse roof, which is then divided into eight areas similar to rice fields. The interior structure is organized like a forest, with a collection of columns not higher than 40m, and a one-directional beam string system to support the roof. 'It is very costly to use scaffolds to build large roofs at this vast site,' note the architects. 'Therefore, they are built on the ground and lifted up. This construction method is called the “the pantadome system”. We are the only ones in the world to utilize this structural method.' 'We are going to build a greenhouse that has never been built before,' they continue. "To build such architecture in this valley is nothing but an adventure."

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