A building walking to a new location sounds like the beginning of a children’s book, but it is how a primary school has been relocated in a city in China.
In Shanghai, a primary school has been lifted and walked to a new location to make room for a commercial centre that is planned to be built in the area. In order to relocate the building, which was constructed in 1935, a series of hydraulic lifts were used to transport the building. While it may sound like Howl’s Moving Castle, the process was actually relatively slow because of the difficult task.
198 robotic legs were required to lift the building, and over the course of 18 days, the school was moved 62 metres. While this is clearly a slow process, the fact that the hydraulic legs could lift and move the school in a city is undoubtedly an impressive achievement.
