Hover City: The World's First Flying Modular and Sustainable Living Unit

Hover City: The World's First Flying Modular and Sustainable Living Unit

Author: Draper Startup House Accelerator November 14, 2022 Duration: 53:42

Ep #094 - Hover City is the world's first flying modular and sustainable living unit

 

On this episode we are joined by the Founder of Hover City, Rawad Zaki. Cities are built around primitive infrastructure. With +7 billion people living in cities by 2050, governments are struggling to manage the dramatic increase in population, pollution, natural disasters and virus outbreaks. HOVER HAUS™ is a patent pending flying, modular and sustainable living unit. It can instantly assemble with other units into an off-grid building then disassemble leaving no carbon footprint behind. ​Their team aims to revolutionize the definition of cities. They want to design cities around communities rather than locations. They want it to be in harmony with nature, and nature is always in constant movement. By eliminating the need for complicated infrastructures, our cities can become agile, sustainable and adapt to demographic and economic changes. Learn more at hover-city.com.

 

 

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