Saturday 19 October 2013

Living on Water


innovative ideas that let us live on water:


Since more and more people and populating the earth, pollution is emerged. This pollution causes the entire planet to warm up, which causes the ice glaciers to melt, which causes the sea levels to rise, which all leads to extremely disastrous situations. People  living on low-lying lands must be evacuated, leaving them in great need of new homes

 

Is life on water possible?


Water-Scraper

Because the climate change has been so rapid that past couple of decades, I believe it is natural that humans will be populating the sea in the future. This sea scraper is designed to provide everything from its generating its own source of food to producing its own light by using the energy from the seas’ kinetic movement.







Floating Cities
The Dutch are known for occupying areas that are liable to flood, so why not build a floating city that would cope with all the climate change?
Delta Sync, a design company, wanted to make that possible. They designed a dome Shaped city that would float along sea levels, with floating highways and bridges. 






Plastic island # 1

Rishi Sowa, built a spiral island by only using 100,000 plastic bottles. His Island includes, a house, beach, pond a solar powered waterfall. 











Plastic island # 2

Architect Ramon Knoester designed a recyclable, self-sufficient island made entirely from plastic found in the garbage patch of the Pacific Ocean, to be as large as the island of Hawaii. This island is quite unique in a way that it supports its own agriculture and power by using solar wave energy.






Lilly pad Eco polis
Vincent Callebeaut, an architect, designed a self-sufficient Lilly pad shaped islands that could house up to 50,000 people each. These cities would include: mountains, marinas, shopping centers, entertainment, aquaculture farms and gardens, which would run entirely on renewable energy.








Oil rigs
Architects, Ku Yee Kee and Hor Sue-Wern, designed sustainable housing structures made entirely from abandoned oil rings in the Earth’s water. These houses would run on solar energy harvested from the rings, wind and tidal energy, thus allowing people to live on both above and below the ocean.









Maldives floating Islands
The Maldives is sinking slowly beneath the water due to the rapid sea levels, Its government had tried so many things to cope, by building retaining walls and using less carbon, however nothing worked. Finally an idea of a floating island emerged. The Dutch Docklands designed five floating islands for the Maldives that contain, beaches, golf courses and houses.






Green Float Botanical City
A Japanese technological company, Shimizu, designed “floating cities in the sky”. These are self-sufficient cities, allowing humans to live with nature. Each district will include towers that include, residences, hospitals, offices and commercial facilities. Plants will grow along the tower; fish and animals will live along the base of the ocean. The entire city will be run by the oceans thermal energy, wind and waves







Water pods
Land and resources will become scarce in the future; therefore Artist Mary Mattingly designed a Water pod shaped structure built from recyclable materials to act as an alternative.  These water pads would self sustaining, running on its own solar powers and food source coming from chicken and gardening. 






On an individual level, some people and countries started building flood proof houses.

The Citadel: Floating Apartments in the Netherlands

After realizing the dangers of rising sea levels, the Dutch took matters into their own hands, by designing “New Water”. It is the first floating apartment complex, which includes apartments, car parks and floating roads.








Twisted House design
Thailand is constantly faced with unpredictable floods that always lead to a huge drop of economy and social loss. Therefore they came up with a design that would be able to endure future flood. Architects designed flood resistant houses that are twisted. With the great use of technology, sensors are placed on windows and doors to close automatically if danger was to strike.  

Noah’s Arch (floating hotel)
Remis Studio designed a hotel structured to resist any earthquakes or floods, and would be the safest place to be during any seismic impact. It runs on solar panels and rainwater collection to provide energy for the inhabitants. Incase of a severe impact to earths crust, the hotel would come loose from the ground and float. 









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