The concept, dubbed Flohara, was created for the Morocco Pavilion of the 2014 Venice Biennale, and would be suitable for other similar desert climates. Though referred to as a city by XTU, it looks more like a large group of basic shelters rather than the kind of sprawling urban center that a city usually brings to mind.

The basic idea of creating homes in the desert using sand sounds great, and it's not the first time that this kind of idea has been presented. XTU's concept is remarkably similar to Magnus Larsson's vision for a desert-based habitable wall, aptly named Dune. It's also reminiscent of the tech behind Dupe, but without the pee.

XTU imagines using light, inflatable, and easily-transported "bubbles" as support skeletons for building upon. These bubbles would either be shipped to the location needed or created locally by some kind of unspecified machinery.