Floting Cities

Flooding and the problem of rising water levels of the oceans is a major concern for the relocation of millions of people. this why architects, town planners, engineers, but also gentle dreamers have imagined floating cities able to accommodate these populations.

Green Float , Japan 

A venture of people in general works organization Shimizu in Japan, conceived before the tidal wave of 2011. Worked in the warm waters of the equatorioles, the islands of 3 km in width are surmounted by channels that manage the warmth. Every island can suit 10,000 to 50,000 individuals living in autarky.

Green float

Wetropolis , Bangkok

Bangkok, based on swamps, sinks 1 to 2 cm for every year. In the long run, she is undermined with an entire stagnation. The design firm S + PBA envisioned a gliding city venture Wetropolis to comprehend milions of populace lives.

Wetropolis 

Lilypad

Designed by the engineer Vincent Callebaut in 2009, this task means to convey alleviation to atmosphere outcasts from 2050. This goliath water lily molded eco-school is sorted out in three mountains committed to work, exchange and relaxation. Lodging worked as hanging gardens, embellished with vegetable greenhouses, can suit up to 50 000 occupants.

Lilypad

Utopia

Utopia is an island and a yacht in the meantime, with 100m width, it has 11 decks and is mechanized. Its removable overhang ensures against the components. Its creators Yacht Island Design hold it for well off populaces.

Utopia

Swimming city 

Designed by the Hungarian Andras Gyorfi, this undertaking of gliding urban structure with swimming pool, marina, helicopter track, theater won a honor from the Seasteading Institute which works for the making of coasting urban communities.

swiming city

Island Arc 

A mega-project to make "another human progress" in Manhattan, guarantees its originator Ben Way who looks for assets to coast high rises.

Circular segment Island will be the greatest structural building undertaking of the century, to develop an entire coasting engineering the measure of Manhattan that can be moved to various areas in different urban areas and on the planet, which utilize a totally secluded approach extended as it develops.

                                                                  Island Arc  

AZ Island

A for Alstom and Z for Zoppini. This island, enlivened by Jules Verne's novel L'île à hélice, was outlined by French engineer Jean-Philippe Zoppini and created by Alstom in the late 1990s. It is over every one of the an extravagance liner 10 ha surface can suit up to 10,000 individuals.

AZ Island

Thalassa

It is in Japan, one of the densest urban areas on the planet, that the French designer Paul Maymont envisions the primary gliding city ever: Thalassa in 1959. Pyramid for Tokyo, he draws a round for a task off Monaco in 1963. 300m in width, each coasting structure was associated with the others by suspension spans.

Thalassa