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City of the future from Toyota

12.01.2020

The president of Toyota Motor Corporation announced the company's plans to build a futuristic prototype city. This city, already called Woven City, will be built near Mount Fuji on the territory of the old Toyota manufacturing complex in Higashi-Fuji, an area of about 70 hectares, and this area will be filled with futuristic buildings and infrastructure designed to explore the question of how humans and robots can coexist in harmony.

At this stage, the Woven City project is still in its early stages, with the start of the first construction work scheduled for 2021. Once completed, this place will become a fully controlled city where people live, work and play in one "big laboratory", while engineers and scientists are free to develop and test in the real world the latest technologies related to artificial intelligence, autonomous movement, service, robotics and smart home technologies.

Woven City's interconnected infrastructure is set to become the most environmentally friendly and sustainable urban infrastructure to date. It will widely use the technology of hydrogen fuel cells from Toyota, which will invite all interested scientists from all over the world to cooperate in this area. The population of Woven City will consist of permanent residents, who will be technicians and maintenance personnel, and visitors, scientists and engineers, who will reside in the city temporarily to test their own technologies.

The Woven City project is being developed by Danish architect Bjarke Ingels, who is trying to reproduce in this city the typical streets that can be found in any modern city. Each street in Woven City will be divided into three sections, one for automatic vehicles, one for personal mobility systems (bicycles, electric scooters, etc.), and one for pedestrians. Such streets will form a grid, dividing the city into blocks, each of which will be either a park or a block with its own courtyard.

All of the buildings in Woven City will be constructed from wood and will feature traditional Japanese carpentry combined with "new automated manufacturing techniques" in their architecture. Each building in the city will play the role of both a place of residence for people and their place of work. Almost the entire "industrial infrastructure", including automated lines for the delivery of goods, will be hidden underground, and artificial intelligence and robots will take over absolutely all daily routine work, freeing up people more time for creative activities or recreation.

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