Floating Island Inspiration (One)
A quick overview of the architects, engineers, designers and projects that have provided design inspiration and ideas for my Design By Data Advanced Master research project so far.
Professor Michael Burt — The Blue Boulevards
Delta Sync/Blue21 — BlueRevolution
This century is faced with global problems and trends like rapid urbanization, rising demands for food and biofuel, pollution, and increasing temperatures through climate change. These present large challenges for agriculture, as land shortage is inevitable.
The BlueRevolution provides an alternative to the traditional ‘consuming city’. This alternative comprises of solutions to multiple interconnected problems of delta cities around the world. As an integrated concept it proposes floating development that can be ‘plugged in’ to existing cities and help them recycling waste nutrients and CO2 that often end up in the environment, polluting it. — BlueRevolution concept.
The Seasteading Institute
“Seasteaders are a diverse global team of marine biologists, nautical engineers, aquaculture farmers, maritime attorneys, medical researchers, security personnel, investors, environmentalists, and artists. We plan to build seasteads to host profitable aquaculture farms, floating healthcare, medical research islands, and sustainable energy powerhouses. Our goal is to maximize entrepreneurial freedom to create blue jobs to welcome anyone to the Next New World.” — The Seasteading Institute.
Vincent Callebaut Architectures
Whereas the Netherlands and the United Arabic Emirates « fatten » their beach with billion of euros to build their short-living polders and their protective dams for a decade, the project «Lilypad» deals with a tenable solution to the water rising! Actually, facing the worldwide ecological crisis, this floating Ecopolis has the double objective not only to widen sustainabely in offshore the territories of the most developed countries such as the Monaco principality but above all to grant the housing of future climatic refugees of he next submerged ultra-marine territories such as the Polynesian atolls. New biotechnological prototype of ecologic resilience dedicated to the nomadism and the urban ecology in the sea, Lilypad travels on the water line of the oceans, from the equator to the poles following the marine streams warm ascending of the Gulf Stream or cold descending of the Labrador. — Vincent Callebaut Architectures on their Lilypad concept.
Yasar and Delft University’s — Floating City Optimisation Studies
Recent research presented by Yasar University, Turkey, and Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands, apply different optimisation algorithms for the ‘sustainable design of floating settlements’.
Jacques Rougerie Architects & Foundation
Eiichi Watanabe — Very Large Floating Structures
Eiichi Watanabe is a Professor Emeritus of Civil Engineering at Kyoto University, Japan, and is a leading academic on Very Large Floating Structures (VLFS).
The term VLFS simply refers to a branch of science that deals with very big floating marine structures, specifically those with large lengths and/or widths and relatively small depths. — Malaysian Structural Steel Association.
Exposition Tous a la Plage! at Cite de L’architecture
(19/10/2016–13/02/2017)
This exhibition by Cite de L’architecture, Paris, was excellent in presenting many different architectural concepts, throughout several eras, that all related to life by the seaside.
(It really demonstrated that you should really be called ‘Jean’ to design architecture for the beach!)
The key architects, whose work really stood out to me for this project, included Georges Candillis, Jean-Pierre Balladur, Paul Maymont and Carlos Ferrater.
Additional works by the following architects also caught my attention: Joseph Belmont, Jean-Bernard Tostivint, Jean-Louis Chaneac, Henri Mouette, Pierre Szekely (sculptor), Jean Percillier, Jean-Raphael Hebrard, Andre Gresy, Jean-Louis Lotiron, Paul Quintrad, Anja Blomstedt, Jacques Berce, Henri Ciriani, Andre Lurcat, Edouard Albert, Guy Rottier, Diener Guirard and Xavier Marti.
More floating island project inspiration to come…
