Well-Equipped Underground Palaces.. This Is How The Rich Prepare For The “Doomsday”
No problem in ecological collapse, social revolution or nuclear war. The Swiss company Oppidum is alleviating the fears of the richest 1% on Earth by providing safe and ultra-luxurious survival hideouts fit for billionaires.
With this introduction, the French magazine L'Obs opened - a report written by Dominique Nora - describing this project, where there is a very luxurious residence of more than a thousand square meters, including a helipad, a parking lot that can accommodate half a dozen, a patio with a garden, an indoor swimming pool and a cinema hall Domestic, conference space and art gallery with shelving to hold gold bars, in addition to an area for the house staff, a kitchen closer to a restaurant, a spacious living and dining room, with several bedrooms in a 5-star hotel atmosphere.
It is indeed a palace fit for billionaires, and it is in fact - as the writer says - an underground bunker, a comfortable castle of "military quality" to protect from the horrors of the end of the world, designed with the smallest technical and aesthetic details by the Swiss company Opdium, which employs about 30 people in Lucerne and Prague.
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The founder of this lavish hideout is Czech businessman Jakub Zamrazil, 39, who worked in the field of luxury real estate and then digital marketing. the land,” adding that he is still “in the initial stage related to permits and designs, for his projects, which will take from 3 to 5 years.”
As for the minimum budget, it starts from 10 million dollars, 40 million for a “futuristic” visualization and no less than 100 million for a more complex model whose interior architecture is signed by the Parisian office of Marc Pregent, who explains, “We have worked with all the symbols of luxury that we already offer.” For our customers in Monaco and the Cote d'Azur or in the Middle East.
The sophisticated lighting system works to artificially recreate natural light, so that it varies according to time, and the company's website shows vast spaces where everything is luxurious, quiet and lively, from 5-meter-high ceilings to dim light, noble materials and furniture signed by the best craftsmen on the planet.
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The marketing goal of this startup, which started in August 2022, is very large fortunes in the Middle East, California and Europe, but businesses the size of “Doomsday” - as the magazine describes it - are new and disturbing, because the term “survival” until now has been Confined to marginal people in military uniform, playing the role of savior to protect their families.
In this case, the privileged are those who are seriously looking for an escape, and they can just be real millionaires or billionaires who live in luxury but fear tomorrow, and imagine that catastrophic events may occur such as environmental collapse, torrential rains, the fall of an asteroid, social revolution or business. Terrorism or resource scarcity with chaos, nuclear attack, solar storm, or even a deadly epidemic, so they want to prepare for the worst.
For this mission, Opdium promises to reassure them, a mansion that is fortified with “7 different modes of operation to resist different types of environmental, civil and ballistic threats” and can be accessed by car after biometric verification at the entrance, and it is protected by several layers of reinforced concrete according to NATO standards. It has two industrial power generators with giant backup batteries, an emergency filtration and ventilation system that can withstand chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear incidents, as well as a stock of nutritious foods for "months or even years".
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As for the advantages of this castle, it is - as Ovidum says - that its lucky owners will not have to go far to search for shelter and will not lose the wealth allocated to building this luxurious hideout, because they can live in it daily in the absence of disasters, enjoying “peace of mind in the final refuge, at any time.” emergency” and thus the company promises “security without sacrifice” with engineering “whose reliability can be compared to Swiss watch mechanisms.”
The fear industry thrives - according to the author - every time a new threat occurs, such as the attacks of September 11, 2001 in the past, climate accidents, North Korean missile launches, or the Covid pandemic and the war in Ukraine now, so the American Larry Hall, a pioneer in this sector, designed a group From luxury apartments and communal infrastructure, it was installed in a missile silo dug by the US Army in 1960 at a depth of 15 levels, to withstand a Soviet nuclear attack.
In this context, the Californian company Vivos presents itself as providing a “rescue plan for humanity”, as its founder, Robert Vicino, bought a former military site of 4,600 hectares, with 575 shelters, that can be purchased and converted upon request into safe, comfortable housing, like in Germany. .
It seems that this elite's final nightmare - according to the author - is the rebellion of the losers in the system, because inequality is widening, anger is climbing the social ladder of the middle classes, and conspiracy theories fuel populism, and therefore the elites in Wall Street and Silicon Valley fear that they will be the first target.
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