Green Tower w Underground Version 1.0

A green tower for counter earth builds. There are 6 above ground levels, and two underground levels accessed by a secret door.

Space per prim use is very efficient in these towers, as the result is 5-6 prims per room.

I have also created connecting bridges (also in Marketplace), and a meeting/gathering platform to complete your City of Towers.

(Counter earth) towers were up to 200m (200 yards) in diameter, primarily marble construction. They were many tiered, each tier connected and interconnected by narrow walkways (bridges). Access to the bridges was from the walls of the city, building rooftops, and/or from the ground level of the city. People congregated, shopped, played Kaissa and so forth upon these bridges. Some high caste (for example) may never leave the highest tier levels of the cities. .... cities tended to be vertical, not horizontal.

The bridges were narrow, and often had lights strung from them. To replicated this to some extent, the bridge options, have some lamps incorporated into them. Bridges may be paved, or simple wooden slat and rope, depending on its role.

These designs are meant to be a compromise to suit Second Life roleplay. If anyone should be interested in truly building a "City of Towers" in the counter earth model, I would be happy to custom build.

Supporting Quotes:

As I descended, I saw the wide, round roof of the cylinder. It seemed to be translucently lit from beneath—a bluish color. In the center of the circle was a low, round platform, some ten paces in diameter, reached by four circular steps that extended about the perimeter of the platform. (Tarnsman)

The Cylinder of Justice was a lofty cylinder of pure white marble, the flat roof of which was some two hundred yards in diameter. (Tarnsman)

It stood some seventy feet from any of the other buildings in the compound that was the House of Saphrar, but now, swaying, formed of rope and sticks, a removable footbridge extended from an open door in its side to a porch some several feet below us. The bridge permitted access to the tower from the building on the roof of which we stood. Indeed, it provided the only access, save on tarnback, for there are no doors at ground level in a (counter earth) keep. The first sixty feet or so of the tower would presumably be solid stone, to protect the tower from forced entrance or the immediate, efficient use of battering rams. (Nomads)

Together we ascended the stairs to the roof of Ar’s central cylinder and looked across the many towers of the city, at the bright clouds, the blue sky, the ridges of the scarlet Voltai in the distance. (Assassin)

“Hold!” cried a guardsman, one of two, at this post on one of the long, arching, graceful, railless, narrow bridges interlaced among the towers of Brundisium. Such bridges are a feature of many (counter earth) cities. They are easy to defend and serve to link various towers at various levels, towers which in a time of attack or siege may serve on given levels or in isolation, if the defenders choose to block or destroy the bridges, as independent keeps, each an almost impregnable, well-stocked fortress in its own right. In Brundisium there were eleven such towers. In many of the high cites there are many more. In Ar, for example, there are hundreds. Other than in their military significance, of course, such bridges tend to be quite beautiful and, functionally, serve to divide the cities into a number of convenient levels. Many (counter earth) cities, in effect, are tiered cities. (Counter earth) urban architecture, in the high cities, tends to be not so much a matter of flat, spreading, concentric horizontal rings, as in many cities, as a matter of towers and tiered levels, linked by soaring, ascendant traceries. (Players)

Preview this item in-world (link below) at the Lar-Torvis Main Store in Caemarvon to ensure it is as expected.

Will do custom builds and Sim designs. Send notecard with contact details.

http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Caemarvon/224/101/88