Building Lots on the water - a city growing from shore out into the water. A similar urban and economic development as VENICE had it in the 16th century - ony that now technology allows floating concrete foundations - out of reach for Venice. Which was built on wooden pilots in a swamp and lagoon area.
Segments of a underwater tunnel float out - if it were not used as a tunnel it would be a great floating building lot that can carry the structural load of a big building.
The "no space left dilemma" is a ancient one - Venice suffered it in ancient times and solved it by putting houses on pilots in the swamp - a temporary solution - as the whole city is sinking into the soft ground due to the weight of the buildings - floating concrete structures as developed in the last 30 years for north sea oil structures have a maintenance free service life of over 200 years - this makes them suitable for permanent building on the water.
Floating saunas are already a common sight on the lakes of Scandinavia but Swedish company Nordic Marine Living has created a sauna which allows guests to bathe in steam whist watching the fishes glide by. The ingenious invention has a floating platform with a hut on top, and a sauna capsule below. Power floodlights illuminate the depths allowing a most dreamlike sauna experience.
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The companies that develop the core technology (floating concrete shell and honeycomb structures) will dominate ocean colonization - mankinds next frontier... before colonizing space.
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The future is just one evolutionary step from what is there now...
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.The dilemma of building something in "nature reserve areas".
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Santa Cruz del Islote - called the most densly populated spot on earth by its inhabitants - points out the general business case for building lots on the water.
Situated in the San Bernardo Archipelago it developed from a semi permanent fishing outpost on a coral rock into a village when the fishermens families started to grow.
Altough there is a big island in the background - people can not live there. The law does not allow to damage the mangroves, nor the corals nor building permantent fundamentation in the beach.
Unfortunatly the Archipelago is a coral / mangrove ambient - so what is not coral is beach, what is not beach is mangroves. There is litterally CERO land for construction or settlement.
This leaves construcction on floating concrete platforms as only way how you can build something and still not touch the corals, the sand, and the mangroves.
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Individual concrete honeycomb shells raft up to a water settlement, very close to a Yacht concept. But also fundamentally different, when done in light concrete shell building ( http://concretesubmarine.activeboard.com/t57819473/floating-concrete-platforms-building-methods/ ) the cost per real estate squaremeter around USD 200/ squaremeter, luxury yachting has a "compareable offer" for USD 23.000 per real estate squaremeter on the market.
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The good thing about real estate developments on floating concrete rafts is that in most countries you will enjoy a extremly high degree of third party interference freedom.
For historical reasons the waterfront is the place where "Land based legislation" like city development plans, and zones, building restrictions of all kind end.
You then have a kind of "Marine Authority" in most countries that regulates everything what happens on the water - so they focus on ships and boats, shipping channels and harbor operations.
If you think it trough a floating concrete honeycomb structure is kind of "out of jurisdiction" for both entities - it is not a building in the city center - although it might float very near to the city center - and it is not a ship either - this opens opportunities for getting done major projects with a minimum interference level if the project management plays its cards well.
Ocean colonization will take what is there and prooven right now - and will take it just a step further... the companies and developers that dominate the core technology will have the pole position in the race for this new frontier - in the same way as the railroad company dominated the conquest of the west on the american continent and ships and the East India Company dominated trade in the 18th century.
The driving forces - like on any new frontier - will be the quest for resources (see oil, deep sea mining) trade and production of new goods (tuna rearing, open ocean aquaculture) , the pressure of cramped cities and high real estate prices that force to expand toward the "not yet occupied space" - and last but not least the general search for new personal opportunities of a better life on the frontier...
The monaco breakwater in construction in Algeciras drydock Spain - it was towed from Spain to Monaco and contains a parkhouse a shopping mall and several buiildings - it is big enough to allow the docking of 4 cruiseships and protects the entrance of Monaco harbor from waves hinged to land in jetty mode.
by: Dominic Walsh From: The Times October 11, 2010 11:45AM
ONE of the world's biggest brewers may build large floating breweries to respond to the industry's future water and energy needs.
There are oil platforms, factory ships and cruise ships so large they are more like floating towns - and now SABMiller is looking into the concept of ship-borne breweries amid predictions that water and energy, both key to beer production, will become increasingly scarce commodities over the next 20 years.
SAB Miller, which owns such brands as Pilsner Urquell, Grolsch and Peroni Nastro Azzurro,has invested heavily in making its breweries more efficient due to the size and scale of its existing operations.
Andy Wales, SABMiller's group head of sustainable development, said that the group's water consumption of 4.7 litres per litre of beer was lower than the industry average of five litres, but it was targeting a cut to 3 and a half litres by 2015.
A recent study, part-funded by SABMiller, found that there could be a potential shortfall of 40 per cent in water resources available across the world by 2030.
The brewer has also teamed up with the WWF, the environmental organisation, and GTZ, a German government agency, to establish the Water Futures partnership to promote private sector action on sustainable management of water resources and the sharing of the lessons learnt.
The concept of a floating brewery has been put forward by Innovia Technology, a consultancy working with SABMiller, as part of a project to predict how a range of different scenarios in terms of the cost and availability of water and energy will affect the technology required to carry on brewing in 2030.
Rob Wilkinson, director of Innovia, said: "It would provide flexibility in positioning and length of stay and allow SABMiller to move with water sources, with people, with crops, or even away from severe weather, natural disasters or political instability."
Maurice Egan, SABMiller's group head of manufacturing said: "The business case behind the thinking is very serious ."
A small bait barge for touristic supply bait and beer...very small scale motor home sized - and already a water based business platform that makes a living for the owner.
Floating building lots on the water, industrial, military, civil engineering, tourism - there are more things to do on the water than shipping and boating - we live on a waterplanet.
The reason why building a hotel or a marina development, directly on the shoreside, is very restricted, is that the project owner wants his hotel right there on a beautiful beach in a pristine lagoon - but the public wants the beaches for public access and the nature undisturbed.
Floating concrete honeycomb and shell structures allow to settle both interests in a non-conflicting manner.
The beach stays untouched and free for public access and no heavy machinery has to dig the fundaments of a new mega hotel into the mangrove and coral zones - floating fundamentation allows to keep the environmental impact of the construction cero.