The floating city of the future

City lilies

Cities can talk floating on the water instead of flooding engulf no longer a crazy story.

As Progrss.com comments, site specializing in solutions for the city of the future: "The advancement of existing technology will not only help the development of life on the water is entirely feasible, but also shows oceans, rivers and lakes on earth can bring to the urban experience richer. "

According to the Independent, design houses struggling to prioritize disaster (disaster-resistant) to the top has been voted as the next big trend of British architecture.

"We must find ways to prepare for and adapt to the growing danger of this, and the core of this work is how our homes can endure, or can quickly be damaged restored before this disaster "- the author writes in the Independent Dennis Allen.

The building has the ability to "disaster-resistant" is designed or renovated homes towards increasing tolerance of incidents such as fire, flood or earthquake, is ready for the lost supply of electricity, water or burning when disaster strikes, to green building solutions such as solar energy storage and store rainwater, and water in case power is cut because of the typhoon.

The architects, urban designers around the world are hard to find alternatives to traditional construction brick and mortar only to ensure the city can be safe from the threat from climate change Weather and sea level rise.

"Water on the boat to"

10-11 days, PSFK page, news pages, specializing in creative solutions, breakthrough, introducing well-SAFE model city Building System technology of the company Arx Pax (US). Arx Pax has pun when their solution is called SAFE (Safety). Full name is Self-adjusting floating Environment (Environment floating self-adjusting).

According Arx Pax, floating city could be built right in the heart of an ordinary city, and especially its architecture will help residents secure floating city, while the other will rest when immersed in water flooding incidents.

In the introductory video SAFE Building System, floating city built by digging a lowland any then pour water on, like digging a pond in the garden (of course, the area must be large, at least the size of a Town).

Then, the well-designed modules such as the container is placed into "the pond" This, connected together to form the foundation floating city. The final step is to build the infrastructure and essential component of any urban center on the foundation of this well.

Pax Arx explained with such structure, each time the city will flood emerging along with the water level and never flooded. Arx Pax confirmed will use the technology and naval architecture to the most modern building floating cities not too expensive. The company is hoping to be granted a patent for this idea to be able to soon put into production.

Arx Pax is not the only company with the idea of ​​building floating city. Inhabitat page (specializing in green design, clean technology) also introduced seven ideas floating city is said to be "can save mankind."

One of these is the idea floating city Prefab Self Sustaining Floating City, designed by the company AT Design Office (UK) proposed to solve the problem of overpopulation of China. Accordingly, Prefab floating city built as a colorful land acquired from the separate islands with hexagons.

Each island is designed so that no carbon emissions, save energy, including both agricultural farms and fisheries to ensure self-sufficiency.

Another unique idea is interesting and Vincent Callebaut Lilypad, floating city with a gun shaped flowers.

The father of this idea, architect Vincent Callebaut Belgian ecology, explains, "the city of lilies" are composed of separate islands (called Lilypad), each island will have different topographic features. The Lilypad will "blend" together make up the city average, enough to hold 50,000 people and is operated by renewable energy, floating city help ensure environmentally friendly criteria.

"It is envisioned Vincent Callebaut Lilypad as future home to the" refugees "before climate change" - said Callebaut.

Country house model

Leveraging domestic space

On a smaller scale "floating city", finding ideas and solutions make use of "water body" from the sea, rivers and natural lakes to the artificial lake, Lake regulate, to build infrastructure is also seen as a new trend in the world.

In an article in September, after a series Progrss.com page examples floating works with many different functions, from the square, housing for refugees to student dormitories, all of which float on the water surface.

In the capital, Copenhagen (Denmark), Urban rigger startups have recently completed floating dormitories First, transplanted from the container. Each "room" of this hostel are full kitchens, bedrooms and bathrooms for rent 600 USD / month.