Based off of the information discussed in this thread, I put together a little graphic of the Renraku SCIRE compared to the Sears Tower, the Petronas Towers, Taipei 101 and the Empire State Building. You can see it here.

I'm pretty sure your scale is off—the Arcology's width is a very sizable chunk of its height, IIRC.

~J

According to the thread I mentioned, it's 969 meters high and 828 meters wide (on its longest side).

Maybe it's just that I'm bad at visual estimation, but the width looks less than 85% of the height in that picture.

I guess I'm just surprised at how steep it is.

~J

i agree, i think it looks steep, if only for my mind, but i always picture it as something sprawling wide, and gradualling going up..

then again, it's possible that the description of it, is off kilter too, and so the picture and the numbers dont match.

You're absolutely right; my bad. It should be even narrower at the base.

I don't believe the angeled sides start at the base. I could be completely wrong, but I think I remember reading somewhere that they didn't start until just above the mall/amusement park levels.

And from the mentions of the 30th floor roof having gardens on it in R:AS, I'd say it is more of a terraced pyramid. How else could there be a roof to level 30?

Also, I don't remember there ever being a mention of the size of platform at the top of the pyramid. Wouldn't a different sized platform change the angle of the sides? Or did you draw the sides as if they were extending to a particular point above the platform?

There is a picture of the Arc in the new seattle SB, it is angular all the way up to the top, and starts slanted. No terraces.

Assuming it's a straight line and angled from the base, the illustration looks about right. My first instinct was that the sides should be about 45 degrees, but I realized the base would have to be twice the height for that. I did the math myself; assuming the flat roof is 10% of the base in width (just because), it came out to 69 degree sides.

Well, the picture in New Seattle is the only picture I have ever seen, so it is the only picture source I can reference.

The picture might well be wrong.

Well, they are compensating for something.

It IS an arco, I mean they are supposed to be self contained cities. Or thats what the idea was. Check Paolo Solari's work sometime. His initial designs are MILES across.

Well, purely for comparison reasons this scetch is completely okay for me. I think I'll show my group the picture, I'm not sure if they're at grips with the size of that thing.

Which is all I really wanted: I'm not an architecture student so I'm prepared to accept that the angles maybe a bit off or whatever. I just wanted to provide a rough sketch so people could get an idea of its size. When my players saw it, they flipped. "It's how big?"

I sort of did too. That thing is pretty awesome and I think I'd strain my neck somehow if I lived at the bottom of it just by looking up at it.
When you stand at the bottom, clost to the wall, do you think you can see the top, even if it is sloped from streetlevel and up?

In one of Asmovs books the Imperial capital was soo developed with domes that the people could not stand to be our doors. The wide open spaces and the sky were too much. If fact they brought the childern up to towers to experence the out doors perodicly hoping to avoid this. (I don't think it worked if I remember corectly)

Do Archology Childern have that problem? Panack attacks whenever outdoors. (A sufficently deep alley is ok if you don't look up, but a park is right out.)

You know, all the Archlogy needs is the door at the top and a winding road and the anthill simbolism will be compleat

If not now, then definetly by 2060s yeah, Seattle will probably be to polluted to see clearly a kilometre up into the air.
At least the lights will be visible at night.

That's.....awfully large.
And it doesn't even include the sub-levels.

You can just imagine how many drop bears would fit in that one.

hmm, i allways envisioned it as more flat. kinda like the stepped pyramids. or maybe im just confusing it with the aztechology building