Free Land
The Bay Area has about a thousand acres of flood-prone area. This area has one of the massive commuter congestion and lack of affordable housing. Free land propose new forms of living and transportation on the water.
In the Bay Area during the past century, sea level rose about eight inches. In 2027, we expect the number to increase even more.
That lead me to think about creating living areas on water for habitation. That way, we can use sea level rising as opportunity to solve problems. Bay moving living areas onto water, we can reduce traffic load, and people do not need to commute long time over long distances every day. To build the living areas we used recyclable concrete withthe help of 3D printing technology. Because we used 3D print technology these housing units are easy and fast to make. Also, by using recyclable concrete we can reduce carbon foot print.
These floating cities consist of small group of modules that could be connected to one another if needed. Each group has 6 units built on a platform. To produce energy on every roof there are fixed solar modules. Another way can be energy produce by the power of wind. Also each group of units has a tank to save water of rain in case of emergency.
In 2016, the Makoko Floating School was a prototype floating structure, built for the historic water community of Makoko, located on the lagoon heart of Nigeria’s largest city, Lagos. As a pilot project, it has taken an innovative approach to address the community’s social and physical needs in view of the impact of climate change and a rapidly urbanizing African context. Its main aim is to generate sustainable, ecological, alternative building systems and urban water cultures for the teeming population of Africa’s coastal regions.
Also the other interesting idea about creating city on water was Swim City. It uses a new approach towards solving urban issues. It is trying to envision an affordable housing solution for young people that turns underused ports, quays and dock areas into sustainable apartment spaces. In order to optimize eco-compatibility, the houses will be built utilizing recycled concrete, which, as the firm explains, can help to reduce the large carbon footprint caused by waste in the building industry. As per this info graphic document, the recycled concrete will replace coarse and fine aggregates, while various by-products such as fly ash, dross from metallurgical processing and micro silica from silicon production will substitute cement.
In 2017, Seasteading came up with the idea of creating a floating city on water. It is the concept of creating permanent dwellings at sea, called Seasteads, outside the territory claimed by any government. The term is a combination of the words sea and homesteading. Seasteaders say that autonomous floating cities will foster faster development of techniques “to feed the hungry, cure the sick, clean the atmosphere and enrich the poor”.
When we were asked to think of one thing about our everyday commute, the very first thing that came to my mind was my commute itself. How I can reduce this amount of time that I spend every day going to school and coming back home again. Whenever I passed by the SF Bay I turned my head to see the sea and wish one day have a house on the water. The idea of creating Free Land comes from my personal feeling. I want to live in the area that is far from all the crowd. Creating a living area on the water gives me and other people, who are dealing with the same problem, the opportunity to live in a new way.
