The floating city is meant for the open ocean, and is a cluster of different structures
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This is really imaginative. I am looking forward to seeing this one grow!
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Well this is quite impressive!
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Very interesting concept and good looking architecture! Nice modelling too, and good renders. Overall beautiful job!
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Thank you guys!
I think a floating solution could be the ideal "platform" to make a very cool collaborative city - group project, without the constrains of snap-fit downloadable plots of land. What do you think? I'll begin explaining some concepts using just one main structure: This we call "Ramform Island", it's basically a large, light cement ship with a broad moonpool. It is just one possible solution for surface, sun-drenched, platforms. Initial Floating Harbor,it begins with a tall bow, a clear point of reference. http://floatingislands.discoursehost..._1_690x374.png Initially the moon pool space might be used as a marina. while the inside of the breakwater could function as terraced condos http://floatingislands.discoursehost...f7d9642d8a.png http://floatingislands.discoursehost...32db72bb65.png http://floatingislands.discoursehost...7fbce98240.png The lateral breakwaters (joined at the wave-splitting bow) can grow, in segments if necessary (sea train) and make the surface area of the protected moonpool exponentially bigger http://floatingislands.discoursehost...3143afaeca.png Allowing bigger ships and a floating village of smaller, lighter, individually scaled sea houses to cluster inside. http://floatingislands.discoursehost...9bc60ab2cc.png Light truss floating houses can provide outdoor and semi outdoor space in a smaller, less dense scale than the large breakwater condominiums. http://floatingislands.discoursehost..._1_690x375.png http://floatingislands.discoursehost..._1_690x375.png Just as well the whole thing can be part (or travel among) larger clusters of different marine cities (in reply to your question @BillM ) http://floatingislands.discoursehost..._1_690x374.png http://floatingislands.discoursehost..._1_690x375.png |
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I'm wondering that, if this kind of city would actually exist, would it be very static like land cities where buildings don't change places, or would it be very dynamic so that boats would change place often. |
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The Crescent or Ramform shape features a tall massive ship-like bow that faces the waves and tides, while the broad aft allows maximum stability for the moonpool or harbor it shelters, even in movement or in the high seas: http://m.expert.ru/data/public/48818...0_crop_q70.jpg These models for a ¨sea house¨ with dock, or floating private island are able to migrate from one coast, neighborhood, or ocean to another, perhaps surpassing the experience of a natural private island. The aft-facing decks are partially shaded by the enclosing shell. http://floatingislands.discoursehost...73426f6314.png http://floatingislands.discoursehost...38852118ef.png I am also working on visualizing another type of town-sized structure (a bowl, or plate) that I imagine would be almost completly stationary, much like a floating polder, in a scale more in line with the spirit of Skyscraper Page and City. |
The smaller Ramform Floating Island is kinda like a private Island or simply building that you can safely sail to a different location when or if needed. Its ¨parking lot¨is the moonpool harbor to the aft protected by the ärms. The living space is a slightly triangular capsule for maximum safety.
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It would be very interesting to see "skyscraper ships", ships that would be more tall than wide or long. I imagine these would reach very deep under water to be stable - like icebergs.
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----- The ¨real¨ floating skyscraper is a basically a cruise ship or large ferry (which unlike skyscrapers you have a lot of them in your coasts, so perhaps less rarity value?) But a metal ship lasts some 40 years and needs to be maintained regularly and fit into drydocks or at least harbors. This limits their size. A very wide and long (but not deep at all) floatin building for the open sea would have to have a tall bow. http://floatingislands.discoursehost..._1_689x329.jpg Not a skyscraper effect but at least it can provide some views and perspetive for the floating village in the calm water harbor its wings create. http://floatingislands.discoursehost..._1_689x329.jpg http://floatingislands.discoursehost..._1_689x329.jpg http://floatingislands.discoursehost...0b51f0e9ec.jpg |
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But kept thinking about "traditional" skyscrapers too and sketched a concept. A very large plate can sustain a replica of a few land-typical town blocks. The points of the stars would allow for the necessary stability and also create coves. Five Harbours Towers http://floatingislands.discoursehost..._1_690x310.png http://floatingislands.discoursehost..._1_689x329.jpg http://floatingislands.discoursehost..._1_689x329.jpg Granted the skyscrapers are not yet beautiful but show the possible volumes More pictures of floating supertalls here |
of courset that's quiet a bit of freeboard for the plate. It is contrasting with the half a km supertalls, but only slightly with the churche's spires.
Another way would be to put the high rises inside the protective shell: http://floatingislands.discoursehost...1d5883e429.jpg 200m Diameter concrete shell. http://tinyurl.com/jndg5k3 |
Verticalextropy, Floating City is absolutely insane! I admire the creativity and amount of thought your putting into this. I simply do not have the skills and patience to model something this complex in Sketchup.
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Very well thought out concepts! I especially like the skyscraper with the star-shaped base, but the underwater sphere city is also very interesting. This might the future for humandkind, if the rising temperatures melt the polar ice and water levels rise, forcing most of the people to move into these kinds of floating cities.
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Thank you Patrick (I don't agree with your conclusion, obviously) ! :cool:
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Bubble Cluster http://nautilusmaker.discoursehostin..._1_690x319.jpg Interior of a Bubble, stadium shaped neighborhood. http://floatingislands.discoursehost...45798e1c70.jpg http://floatingislands.discoursehost...148a5b3f4d.jpg http://floatingislands.discoursehost...b75bcf5e19.jpg http://floatingislands.discoursehost..._1_689x349.jpg http://floatingislands.discoursehost..._1_689x349.jpg http://floatingislands.discoursehost..._1_689x349.jpg |
That Bubble Cluster looks like it's a very pleasant living environment - at least in calm weather. I admire the thought put in to this.
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thank you Vellu,
In calm waters people can enjoy the outdoors and kayak or swim around the bubble cluster. In rough weather it's better to remain inside the protection of the shells. By the same token, a box honeycomb alley city, or neighborhood, could fare better entirely contained within a semi submerged sphere, as so https://floatingislands.discoursehos...cb18bc52d4.jpg https://floatingislands.discoursehos...94359caba8.jpg https://floatingislands.discoursehos...76295ded0e.jpg An underwater sphere in the tropics with a skylight could get as much natural light as a Scandinavian Spring, and at a constant 20 degrees (because of all the water around it!) |
Yet another very interesting concept! The architecture gives me a vibe of a medieval middle-eastern city or the hanging gardens or a roman colosseum brought to 21st century.
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