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Floating buildings on Venus. What shapes are credible?

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Venus is being paraterraformed with floating cities. Mechanical machines collect material from the surface and send it floating at an altitude of about 50 Km where conditions are more Earth-like. Here the material is assembled into building.

The "city" is not in one piece. Each building has its own floating mechanism independent of the others. The city is ring-shaped with buildings moving in a circular motion around an empty center.

Some buoyancy is provided by the internal atmosphere which is less dense than the venusian atmosphere. However I want them to use other systems as well, in particular wind. I was thinking in particular of the Vindskip concept (The video is short and gives an idea of how it works).

What shape/machinery can I give to the buildings to have them harness wind power for flotation?

EDIT: Maneuvering is available for the buildings, and some minor propulsion systems can be considered too

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