The Atlantropa project
1 min readJun 5, 2020
Atlantropa was a gigantic engineering and colonization idea designed by the German architect Herman Sörgel in the 1920s.
He planned to unite the continents of Europe and Africa through the partial evaporation of the Mediterranean Sea (drain 1/5 of the Mediterranean sea), enabling millions of Europeans to get a new life in what would become the Eurafrican supercontinent called Atlantropa. The new continent would produce food for 150 million people.
