FLOATING STRUCTURES Gro Bonesmo + Kamilla Csegzi Dorothy C. Taylor Wendi Cui Yuhong Du Bingyu Guan Hillary Ho Britt Johnson Eduardo Maigre Catherine Qi Yiyi Qi Jack Tao Ren Wang Angela Yang
Adaptive / Community / Decay / Ecology / Energy / Harbor / Industry / Infrastructure / Information / Maritime / Mobile / Military / Network / Political / Technology / Temporary / Territory
01. tanks 02. concrete ballast 03. engine room 04. living quarters 05. bridge + labs 06. berthing
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Bimarine Biology Instrument
The Floating Instrument Platform (FLIP) is a unique oceanographic research vessel owned by the Office of Naval Research (ONR) and operated by the Marine Physical Laboratory at Scripps Institution of Oceanography. FLIP serves as the only research ship in the
world capable of operating in both horizontal and vertical positions. In the vertical position, it is very stable favored for acoustics studies because of the mass of the vessel in comparison to normal vessels. Over time it has been used to study methorology, geographics physi-
cal ocenology and marine mammal research. On a regular research vessel, this could cause high fluctuating movements interfering with accuracy readings but even a 30ft wave wouldn’t interupt FLIP’s reading due to its stability.
project name:
Flip
status:
Completed
architect/builder:
Gunderson Brothers Engineering
date:
primary launched June 1962
location:
(n/a) Adaptive / Infrastructure / Mobile
Oil Tanker
01. stering 02. dining 03. fire room 04. engine room 05. water reserve 06. fuel reserve 07. pump room 08. tank 09. storage
Oil Tanker life span 31 years 12- 13 knots
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Blue Marlin Heavy Lifter Ship, 2000 life span 29 years 6.3 knots
water level change 2 miles
217m (712 ft)
water level change 3 miles
project name:
Oil Tanker
status:
Completed
architect/builder:
Ludvig Nobel
date:
primary created in 1863
location:
(n/a) Maritime / Infrastructure / Mobile
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01. visitors deck 02. rooftop plaza 03. outdoor event plaza 04. access road for vechicles 05. lobby 06. deck 07. CIQ facilities 08. osanbashi hall 09. machine room 10. parking space
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WELCOME TO YOKOHAME
plaza
visitors deck
city
transport plaza
entry/exit to terminal
lobby national passengers
entry/exit to shops / restaurants
check - in national
entry/exit to hall of civic exchange
hall of civic exchange
international passenger lobby
ship
apron
car park
5200
visitors desk
lobby osanbashi hall
shipping desk
4800
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rooftop plaza
Yokohama’s Osanbashi Pier has been a fixture on the Tokyo Bay since 1894, connecting with the Pacific Ocean and providing Japan with a marine gateway to the world. The steel frame structure was designed with the beautiful scenery of the port in mind. It is a three level facility of a gentle curved form. The occupiable roof curves back
visitors desk
shipping desk parking space
in to form the ceiling of the level below and then again to form the floor. Circulation - The utilization and perception of the space is constantly modified by the size and arrangement of the ships. The major circulation paths become evident during high traffic times but the gentle curves of the
structure allow people to flow almost completely unrestricted. The two distinct flows are that of embarking and disembarking, the two overlap constantly, and adding minor circulatory flows such as visitor and passenger pick up, completely bring the architecture to life.
project name: architect/builder: architect/builder: location:
Yokohama International Passenger Terminal Foreign Office Architects (Japan, Tokyo)
status:
Completed
date:
designed 1995 - opened 2002
Communuity / Infrastructure /Harbor
module A the Robert Falcon Scott socialmodule social module- The social module includes greenhouse, climbing wall, bar, library, ect. QuickTime™ and a decompressor
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Throughout the seasons of the year the Halley VI Antarcic Research Station usage develops throughout the year. Its highest usage is in its 12-week summer (S1). The uage of modules from s1, s2, s3, depends on two three factors, the research conducted, the political investment and the seasons.
ROOF S2
ROOF S1
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module B2 sleeping module + smaller lounge
module B1 sleeping module + smaller lounge
module C sleeping module
module A the Robert Falcon Scott socia lmodule
The Halley VI Research Station is a technically complex buildings, created for the harshest climate on earth. The world’s first fully relocatable, permanently manned Antarctic research station, it redefines polar architecture and engineering. The self-sufficient scientific research base that contains research labatories, living quarters, offices and
module E1 generators and plant
service link
module E2 generators and plant
energy plants. Designed for the natural enviroment research council + The British Antarctic Survey. It is now operational on a floating ice shelf 900 miles from South Pole. Hydraulically elevated ski based modules respond to annually rising snow levels and the need to relocate the base if the site calves off as an iceberg. A special central module provides a
module H1 science module
module H2 science module
dramatic open plan social area at the heart of the station. The technical challenges consisted of extreme cold, wind and snow environments, snow accumulation, moving ice, narrow construction windows, environmental protocols and tight financial constraints.
project name:
Halley VI Antarcic Research Station status:
Completed
architect/builder:
Hugh Broughton Architects
2013
location:
(Brunt Ice Shelf, Antartica)
date:
Energy / Network / Adaptive / Political / Information / Technology
H: 8 ft 3.8 m (12ft)
2.1m (6.9ft)
25 years life span
full-time residency 1/7
The Nakagin Capsule Tower was created to house traveling businessmen that worked in central Tokyo during the week. It is a prototype for architecture of sustainability and recycleability, as each module can be plugged in to the central core and replaced
part time usage 6/7
or exchanged when necessary. The tower contains 140 capsules stacked and rotated at varying angles around a central core, standing 14-stories high. The technology developed by Kurokawa allowed each unit to be installed to the concrete core with only 4 high-tension
bolts, which keeps the units replaceable. The room has been designed to room one person.
project name:
Nakagin Capsule Tower
status:
Completed
architect/builder:
Kisho Kurokawa
date:
1972
location:
(Japan, Tokyo) Temporary / Community / Decay
There are four residential areas of fishermen living on the bay, about 400 households totaling approximately 1.000 people. The fishermen live on boats and floating wooden houses in the core-zone of Ha Long Bay, which is dozens of kilometers away from
the mainland. They have no home or land ownership and their main livelihood is fishing and aquaculture.Due to rising waters, the people made homes from boats, though they maintained an ancestral shrine on the mainland. For village meetings they simply
dropped anchor.
project name:
Halong bay
status:
architect/builder:
--
date:
location:
Vietnam
Completed
Community/Infrastructure/Mobile/Territory
20km
Perdido is the deepest floating oil platform in the world at a water depth of about 2450 meters operated by the Shell Oil Company in the Gulf of Mexico. The Perdido is located in the Perdido fold belt which is a rich discovery of crude oil and natural gas
that lies in water that is nearly 8000 feet deep. The platform’s peak production will be 100,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day. At 267 meters, the Perdido is nearly as tall as the Eiffel Tower. Operated by Shell, with JV partners Chevron (37.5%) and BP (27.5%),
the spar acts as a hub for and enables development of three fields Great White, Tobago, and Silvertip. The oil and gas fields beneath the platform lie in a geological formation holding resources estimated at 3-15 billion barrels of oil equivalent .
project name:
Perdido Oil Platform
architect/builder: location:
status:
Completed
date:
2010
Mexico Energy/Infrastructure/Territory
69.10 KM²
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Kay Lar Ywa is a small village situated over here with small population. Its inhabitants live in simple houses made of bamboos. People here grow crops on floating orchards for their daily needs. With population of one million people this village is worth
seeing. People of Inle Lake Myanmaruse boats for the mean of transportation. They drive these boats with the help of oars tied with their legs. This unique style evolved for the reason that the lake is covered by reeds and floating
plants making it difficult to see above them while sitting. Standing provides the rower with a view beyond the reeds. However, the leg rowing style is only practiced by the men.
project name:
Kay lar ywa
architect/builder: location:
status:
Completed
date: Myanmar Community/Ecology/Mobile
In 1777, the remains of a young woman were found at the Villa Diomede. As well as her skeleton, the outline of her breasts and body shape was clearly visible in the material packed beneath her. Other examples were discovered as exploration continued. But the
excavators had no way of preserving them. But in 1864 Giuseppe Fiorelli, the director of the excavations, discovered a technique that allowed the body shapes to be preserved. Fiorelli’s excavators discovered hollow pockets in the ash in a lane named the Alley of the
Skeletons. Inside, it was possible to make out human bones. But instead of digging through the ash to remove them, Fiorelli instructed the diggers to pour plaster into the hollow.
project name:
Pompeii
architect/builder: location:
status:
Completed
date: Pompeii, Italy Adaptive/Decay/Temporary
1974 1959
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Hashima Island, commonly called Gunkanjima , is an abandoned island lying about 15 kilometers (9 miles) from the city of Nagasaki, in southern Japan. It is one of 505 uninhabited islands in Nagasaki Prefecture. The island’s most notable features are the
abandoned historical concrete buildings, undisturbed except by nature, and the surrounding sea wall. While the island is a symbol of rapid industrialization of Japan, it is also a reminder of its dark history as a site of forced labor prior to and during the
Second World War.
project name:
Hashima Island
architect/builder: location:
status:
Complete
date: Hashima Island Community/Decay/Infrastructure
Year 30
Year 60
Year 90
Year 120
A floating archipelago conceivd for the middle of the ocaen, made up of mother cities and small cities connected by bridges. the internal island clusters are residential, with large outer islands serving as wave buffers and accommodating industry. Towers are
various stages of growth. When on island becomes too old and unsuitable for living, it is draged away and sunk. Artificial land as a vertical wall plane rather than as horizontal ground planes are used. Houses would be attached to the wall, not to
the ground. 900 foot high concrete cylinders can accommodate five thousnad people .
project name:
Marine City
status:
Conceptual
architect/builder:
Kikutake Kiyonori
date:
1963
location:
Japan Adaptive/Mobile/Temporary
Main Roads
Secondary Roads
Commercial
Houses
In 1958 the Tokyo Regional Plan was released which proposed a series of satellite cities and general decentralization as the solution to Tokyo’s rapid population boom (rising from 3.5 million in 1945 to 10 million in 1960).Tange argued that the movement that the automo-
bile introduced into urban life had changed peoples’ perception of space, and that this required a new spatial order for the city in the form of the megastructure, not simply a continuation of the radial zoning status quo. He proposed a linear megastructure based
on a ‘fixed’ open network of highways and subways around which a ‘transient’ program would acrete as the needs of the population dictated.
project name:
Tokyo Bay
status:
Conceptual
architect/builder:
Kenzo Tange
date:
1960
location:
Tokyo, Japan Adaptive/Harbor/Infrastracture
Harvesting Pool
Production Pool
Habitat Pool
Recreation Pool
This proposal establishes the Salton Sea as a site for water harvesting. No longer serving as an hydrological sump or supporting a mono-agricultural landscape, the Salton would also offer new forms of leisure, protected habitats, and new industries—harvesting fish,
kelp, water, and (in a return to its namesake) salt. The proposal offers three zones of coastal development: an ecology zone, an industry zone, and a recreational zone. Floating pools or water-pads of various sizes and salinities, serve as salinity regulation
devices as well as harvest plots, habitats, and recreational destinations. The four pool types vary in dimension and complexity.
project name:
Water Ecologies/Economis
status:
architect/builder:
Lateral Office
date:
location:
Salton Sea, California, USA
Conceptual
Adaptive/Ecology/Harbor/Industry
April
October Liquid Commons provides a new, malleable educational infrastructure composed of a series of boats that travel between the harbors of eleven adjacent settlements, catering to more than seventy-five hundred “unserved� citizens. By disaggregating and transport-
July
January ing educational services, a larger selection of amenities is afforded to these locations. During the fall season, before the Hudson Strait freezes, the boats gather at flexible nodes along the icebreaker shipping route to create a central hub as well as a bridge across
the icebreaker’s fissure to allow connection between these settlements. By utilizing water as a distributor during the summer and as a shared connective platform in the winter, Liquid Commons becomes both a unifying network and a node.
project name:
Next North: Liquid Commons
status:
architect/builder:
Infranet Lab
date:
location:
Nunavut, Canada
Conceptual
Adaptive/Mobile/Temporary
Centro Comercial Las Arenas
Venetian Towers
1907
1929
Palau Nacional 1929
The Four Columns
1929
2010
When world’s fairs close shop most of their buildings and structures are torn down and forgotten. This is as planned; most world’s fair architecture is designed to be temporary. Moreover, some world’s fair architecture was later destroyed by fire including London’s
1934
Crystal Palace and Chicago’s White City. There are notable exceptions to this intended and unintended architectural ephemerality, of course. The Eiffel Tower is just the most famous instance of an enduring architectural legacy bequeathed to a city by a world’s fair.
Seattle’s Space Needle would be another. We might also add a number of contemporary museums that are today housed in buildings first designed as world’s fair pavilions. Examples include the Queen’s Museum of Art in New York .
project name:
1929, Expo
architect/builder: location:
status:
Complete
date: Barcelona, Spain Adaptive/Temporary
Involuntary Association
Very Little in Common
House
Neighbours
One Confident
Street
Nodding Acquaintance
Work Associates
District
Recognition
City
Nationality
Very Many Like Minds
Voluntary Association
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Desalination Restaurant
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Shopping Complex
Athletic Facility
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Samba School
General Physician
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Research Lab Museum Administrative
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Event Space
Resort
Stadium
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-- In the middle of the ocean, water both isolates islands of activity and connects these objects within a broader network. The scale of mobility at sea has no dry analogue — ships can transport cargo the size of city blocks with relative ease. With such capacity, it is possible
to condense the spatially dispersed population of the oil fields into a single network scheduled through time. While land-based mobility remains relatively limited, by way of the ocean, people and city can move omnidirectionally. Optimizing this condition, FrequenCity
deploys a diverse range of programme shared through three moving networks, which interface between a series of static points to offer the complexity and diversity of the city in a dispersed logistical environment.
project name:
Frequencity
status:
Prototype/Conceptual
architect/builder:
Bo Min Park | Peter Stone
date:
2012
location:
Brazil Community / Mobile / Network
Grain Islands Desalination Plant Water Reservoir Crop Fields WaterWays Sports Fields
Energy Islands Searaser | Solar Hybird Harvesters Tug Boat Fuel Cell Storage On - load | Off - load Platform Central Pontoon
Grain Islands Desalination Plant Storage Silos Classroom Tennis Courts Sports Fields
Grain Islands
Fresh Islands Harvest Infrastracture | Recreational Program Loop Crop Type B Sports Field Crop Type C Classroom Desalination Plant Crop Type A Running Track
Central Seaweed Farm | Fish Food Processing Plant Floating Buoy Floating Walkway Growing Nets
Aquaculture Islands Perimeter Beach Aquapod Classrooms | Processing Plant Growing Pool Central Hatchery Floating Pontoons
-- Drift + Drive creates a unique territory within the vastness of the ocean. Building upon the congestion resulting from existing oil processing, the plan instrumentalizes the local condition of ocean currents to establish a bounded territory in contrast to the vast
homogeneity of the sea. Once established, the project consolidates the logistics of harvesting oil, agriculture, renewable energy as well as the movement of diverse demographics into a territorial figure. This figure is comprised of the agricultural and energy islands, island
hubs, drift boats, and mobile oil boats.
project name:
Floating Frontiers: Drift + Drive
status:
Prototype/Conceptual
architect/builder:
Joanna Luo | Weijia Song | Alexander Yuen
date:
2012
location:
Brazil Ecology / Infrastructure / Mobile / Territory
UV-Filter Ultra-violte(UV) reduction of bacterial and micro-organisms in fish water.
UF Controller Software control system with 24/7 remote monioring, GSM alarm, data storage, operations planning and logs.
Bio Filter Aerobic nitrification process with bacteria colonized on bio film media.
Drum Filter Mechanically removing solids through rotating membrane filtration.
Plants Hydroponic or soil-based “end-of-pipe� cultivation of vegetables, fruits or flowers with fish water.
Sump Device creating standing air bubble enriching the fishwater with oxygen.
Fish Aquaculture facility growing freshwater fish such as Tilapia at constant water temperature of 25-28 Celsius.
-- Re-circulating Aquaponics provides an efficient nutrient solution. As a by-product of fish production, growers can build a base nutrient solution for their existing hydroponic system and even recirculate used drain water to the UF Bolt-on system for conditioning
and re-circulation. UF Bolt-On Aquaculture Systems enable the seamless integration of aquaculture systems into existing (hydroponic) production models for protected crops such as vegetables, fruits or flowers.
project name:
Urban Farmers | UF Bolt-on System status:
Built
architect/builder:
Roman Gaus
2013
location:
Netherland
date:
Adaptive / Ecology / Technology
STEP 1
Ocean Water
STEP 2
Pre-Treatment
STEP 3
Reverse Osmosis
Conditioning + Disinfection
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Leftover high-salinity water discharged as brine.
Filters remove suspended solids and other particles that would interfere with the desalting process.
Reverse osmosis membranes separate dissolved minerals (including salts) and other impurities from the water.
Diatomaceous Sand Filters Earth Filters
Traveling Screens Particle Settlement
Ocean Water
Heavier solids are settled Filter out shells, and removed from water. wood and other debris greater than 1/4 inch. Initial Initial Chemical Solids Treatment Removal
Power Plant
Solids Processing
Mineral and/or chemicals are added to ensure produced water meets health, aesthetic and anti-corrosion standards.
Smaller solids are Microscopic materials filtered from the are eliminated. water.
Regional Blending and High Service Pumping
Recycled Water
Solids are prepared for off-site disposal.
Drinkable Water
14 miles away, the regional water facility will blend the desalinated water with treated surface water.
Water removed from solids is recycled.
Reverse Osmosis 1st Pass
Cartridge Filters
Reverse Osmosis 2nd Pass
In place to protect reverse osmosis membranes
Holding Tank Reverse Osmosis Process
Concentrated Salt Water 19 million gallons of concentrated salt water are directed back to the power plant, mixed with up to 1.4 billion gallons of cooling water and returned to the ocean.
Energy Recovery Turbine
-- It proposes an itinerant soil-less agricultural infrastructure designed to drift the circulating ocean currents between Greenland and Canada, exploiting the nutrient-rich fresh water released by melting icebergs as the basis for a large-scale hydroponic-farming system.
Post Treatment
Pump
Under high pressure, water is pumped through racks housing reverse osmosis membranes to remove the salt.
The floating facility is equipped to house a community of 800 people, inspired in its compact urban form by vertically oriented, bayside Greenlandic villages and their social, cultural and economic relationship to the sea. The project was instigated as a response
to Greenland’s agricultural dependence, requiring the importation of almost all of required fresh fruit and vegetables from its less climatically and soil-fertility challenged neighbors.
Harbor
Fish
Housing
Iceberg
Agriculture
Public Equipement
Iceberg Routing Mechanism
Lab
project name:
Arctic Harvester
status:
Conceptual
architect/builder:
Meriem Chabani, Etienne Chobaux, John Edom, Maeva Leneveu
date:
2013
location:
Greenland Industry / Mobile / Technology
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Gas Handling LPG Storage Chemical Systems Condensate Stabilization
Water Depth | Shallow, Intermediate, Deep Field Lifetime | 2-4 yr, 4-10 yr, 10-30 yr Environment | Calm, Intermediate, Harsh
Gas Compression and Export Injection 1st Gas Compression
Metering & Analyzer 2nd Gas Compression
Internal Turret
External Turret
Off - Loading Export Flow Line
Fuller’s Triton City has the ability to aggregate. Fuller proposed that each modular unit of Triton City would support 3,500 to 6,000 people and would act as a village with schools, health care, and retail. However, as each units is aggregated with others, towns and cities
Large Internal Turret
External Turret Mooring
Buoyant Turret Mooring
Riser Turret Mooring
begin to form with greater corresponding social and civic services. Triton City is also self-sustaining, with an onboard power plant and desalination plants. Triton City floats on the ocean surface.
DYNAMIC POSITIONING
OIL
TURRET
Refrigeration Flare System Fuel Gas
project name:
Triton City
status:
Conceptual
architect/builder:
Buckminster Fuller
date:
1967
location:
Japan, Tokyo Bay Efficiency / Infrastructure / Mobile
Horns Rev 2 is an offshore wind farm located on Horns Rev (Horns Reef) in a shallow area in the eastern North Sea, about 30 km (19 mi) off the westernmost point of Denmark, Bl책vands Huk. When inaugurated in 2009, Horns Rev 2 was the largest offshore wind farm in the
world until Thanet Wind Farm opened on 23 September 2010. The Horns Rev 2 consists of 91 Siemens Wind Power SWP 2.3-93 wind turbines with a total generating capacity of 209 MW. The foundations are monopiles like on Horns Rev 1. It has the first offshore wind
farm accommodation platform in the world, named Poseidon. It is connected by walkway to the transformator platform,and is 750 square metres (8,100 sq ft) large with 3 decks and weighs 422 tons.
2008 at around 10:10 UTC seen from the southeast. (b) Lower panel: Same as (a) but shortly after, seen from the south. Courtesy: Vattenfall. Photographer is Christian Steiness. a
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2. Fog Formation and Dispersal FIG. 2 FOG FORMATION DISPERSAL The physical mechanisms for fog formation include three primary processes: cooling, moistening and vertical mixing of air parcels with different temperatures and humidity. Advection fog, frontal fog and radiation fog are the three major types of fog [1]. project name:
Horns Rev 2
status:
Completed
architect/builder:
DONG Energy
date:
2009
location:
Denmark
Rigs-to-Reefs (RTR) is the practice of converting decommissioned offshore oil and petroleum rigs into artificial reefs. Such biotic reefs have been created from oil rigs in the United States, Brunei and Malaysia. The program has been generally popular with
fishermen, the oil industry, and government regulators in the Gulf of Mexico, where offshore platforms develop into coral reefs, and as of September 2012, 420 former oil platforms, about 10 percent of decommissioned platforms, have been converted to permanent
reefs. Opposition in California has prevented a rigs-to-reefs program on the West Coast of the US.Similarly, environmental opposition has prevented implementation of Rigs-toReefs in the North Sea.
project name:
Rigs-to-Reefs
status:
Conceptual
architect/builder:
--
date:
2000s
location:
Multi country
The idea consists of placing a solar energy concentrator in the middle of ocean. The entire system is made of light weight plastic screen that functions like a lens. The concentrator focuses the incident radiation onto the photo diode placed at the such a
point that, according to physics it will be at the fundamental focus. During favorable weather condition, this concentrator converts all the incident radiation into emf. When the weather turns bad, it simply pops up and down on the surface of water like a buoy. Hence, it
is a highly economical system which requires minimum technical maintenance. They claim that their system can withstand all the harsh manifestations of nature.
project name:
Liquid Solar Array
status:
architect/builder:
Sunenery Australia
date:
location:
Australia
Completed
Mega-Float is a Very Large Floating Structure (VLFS) with potential long-term durability for use in sea areas. It’s several units, which are constructed from iron and steel products are welded together offshore. Through the construction of facilities on its
artificial landbase, Mega-Float promotes the extensive use of our ocean spaces. MegaFloat is characterized by features that include being unaffected by earthquake, having few environmental impacts on ocean currents and marine eco-systems, being able to be
constructed at low cost and in a short period of time independent of ocean depth and ground condition, and also earmarking the possible use of its immense internal spaces.
project name:
Megafloat
status:
Prototype
architect/builder:
TRAM
date:
1995
location:
Tokyo Bay, Japan
There is no such thing as unclaimed land,” says the Seasteading Institute, so starting from scratch in international waters “is the only option to create new societies on Earth.” No welfare, looser building codes, no minimum wage, and few restrictions on weapons.” At
first, the new city state would be built on mobile, diesel-powered floating platforms that house up to 270 residents, but Seasteading chief Petri Friedman hopes to have tens of millions of residents living on hundreds of banded-together platforms by 2050. Within
a few decades, the goal is to establish United Nations–recognized sovereign nations that get their food and energy from trading with other countries.
project name:
Libertarian Island
status:
Conceptual
architect/builder:
Seasteading Institute
date:
2008
location:
California, US
GLOBAL CROP DIVERSITYTRUST Independent international organization whichexists to ensure the conse rvation and availability of crop diversity for food security worldwide.
FUNDING
3.5 MILLION SAMPLES
makes GMO invests in GMO owns GMO patents makes GMO invests in GMO
Monsanto The Bill and Melinda GatesFoundation Dupont/Pioneer The SyngentaFoundation The Rockefeller Foundation CGIAR Norway
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860.000 35% FILLED
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TECHNICALFAILURES
Morocco
METER THICK WALLS seed donors
Svalbard Global Seedvault: This concrete, steel and glass structure is the first layer of security to a repository of millions of seeds from around the world, stored here in case of disaster, disease, or war… The Svalbard Global Seed Bank is situated 120 metres (390 ft)
ICARDA Due to S yrias war, Isca rda has claimed its seeds f rom the vault in order to regrow their crop species. They were chosen over other vault because these seeds we re fresher
The vault has been designed to withstand all sorts of natural or man made catast rophe
inside a sandstone mountain. Svalbard was considered ideal for the bank, due to low tectonic activity and its permafrost, which will aid preservation. Even if sea levels rise due to climate change – and the melting of ice caps, the seeds will be safe and dry , as they
are stored at a location 130 metres (430 ft) above sea level. ..The Svalbard Global Seed Vault provides a safety net against accidental loss of diversity from traditional storage within genebanks around the world, and has a capacity for 4.5 million seeds.
project name:
Global Seedvault
status:
Completed
architect/builder:
Peter W. Søderman / Norway gov.
date:
2009
location:
(Svalbard, Longyearbyen) Ecology / Infrastructure / Political
! SVALBARD TREATY The SvalbardTreaty of 1920 established full Norwegian sovereignty over the archipelago....The preamble to the treaty stipulates that the Islands must only be used for peaceful purposes, and Article 9 states that Svalbard "may never be used for warlike purposes."
KONGSBERG DEFENCEANDAEROSPACE
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Supplier of defence and space related sys tems and products, mainly anti-ship missiles, military communications, and command and weapons control sys tems for naval vessels and ai r-defence applications.
NORWEGIAN SPACE CENTRE
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KONGSBERG SATELLITE SERVICES (KSAT)
SVALSAT USERS
EUMETSAT / Europe NASA / US ESA / Europe NOAA / Norway ISRO / India JAXA / Japan KARAI / Korea
! US
ILLEGAL DOWNLOAD
IRAQ WAR 2003
DUBAI 2004
TROMSO FIBER OPTIC CABLE
BAI
25.000.000 USD$
SOUTHAFRICA
SINGAPORE
! US
PENTAGON
Svalbard Satellite Station: SvalSat is a satellite ground station located on Platåberget near Longyearbyen in Svalbard, Norway. Opened in 1997, it is operated by Kongsberg Satellite Services (KSAT), a joint venture between Kongsberg Defence & Aerospace and the
Norwegian Space Centre (NSC). SvalSat and KSAT’s Troll Satellite Station (TrollSat) in Antarctica are the only ground stations able to download information for all 14 orbits of polar orbiting satellites. The facility consists of 31 multi-mission and customer-dedicated
antennas. The station provides ground services to more satellites than any other facility in the world. The facility has seen a large increase in smaller customers after 2004, when the Svalbard Undersea Cable System started providing a fiber Internet connection.
project name:
Svalsat
status:
Completed
architect/builder:
Kongsberg Satellite Services
date:
2007
location:
(Svalbard) Information / Technology / Military
THAI MIGRATION
1980Õ s
AIRPORT OPENS
1975
Norweigian miner
Sompong Haug
founding member
MALE + FEMALE MIGRATION SALARIES
migration flow
TAXES
x107
THAI COMMUNITY THAI SHOP
There are over 110 thai people living as permanent residents in Svalba rd. Their presence is gaining str enght and relevance.
SVALBARD TREATY The SvalbardTreaty of 1920 established full Norwegian sovereignty over the archipelago.But it allows for citiziens of all the signing parties to settle in Svalbard without a visa.It is only required that they have a job there and a house in their country of origin.
TASTE OFTHAI CAFE There are few architectural elements that evidence the presence of the thai com munity. One of them is a small thai restaurant that offers cheap thai food.
Royal Highness Princess GalyaniVadhana
visits Longyearbyen thai community
RECRUITERS
$
orientation temporary jobs referrals ...
NEW MIGRANTS
Taste of Thai: this restaurant is one of the fiew architectural evidences of the thai community that has settled in Svalbard. The interior of the restaurant has decorative elements that try to construct a typical thai environment, plastic plants and flowers offer an naivly exotic
ambience. Golden decorative elements allude to thailand’s decorative techniques used on their religious architecture of temples and palaces. The thai cafe is here presented as evidence of a reality that extends beyond its locality. The growing community of thai people
was initiated during the 80’s result from a marriage between a norweigian miner an a thai women. Since then a large community of up to 100 thai is shaping labor distribution in Longyearbyen.
project name:
Taste of Thai
status:
Completed/Prototype/Conceptual
architect/builder:
unknown
date:
2012
location:
(Svalbard, Longyearbyen) Community / Network / Political
NORWEGIAN 100% STORE NORSKE GOVERNMENT is a Nor wegian coal mining company based on
$$$$$ 2015
the Svalbard archipelago. The company has 360 employees and operates two coal mines. The largest one is locat ed in the Sveagruva settlement, about 60 km south of L ongyearbyen. The Svea Nord longwall mine has an annual output of 2 million tonnes of bituminous coal.
9.000.000 $ LOSSES EXTRA
EXTRA! ALL COAL MINES CLOSED! /// Store Norske closes in 2014 all their coal mines in mainland Norway ///
1.800.000 tons / year
SVEA MINE CLOSES! /// Store Norske closes recently opened Svea mine ///
UNCERTAIN FUTURE FOR A STABLE NORWEGIAN COMMUNITY IN SVALBARD
2014
!
NEW MINE IN SVALBARD ! /// Store Norske opens the Svea Coal mine in Svalbard /// ??? ?
200.000 CO2 tons
75.000 tons / year
!
ONLY MINE WORKING! x 25
The coal seam in Svea Nord is up to five metres thick. This involves extracting the coal using a cutting machine that moves along coal panels that are 250 metres wide and up to 3.5 kilometers long. The coal is transported on conveyor belts out of the mountain in Svea
and from there by truck to large coal storage areas in the port at Kapp Amsterdam. There is no road connection between Longyearbyen and Svea. All transport of personnel is done by plane. This has given rise to the creation of an extensive infrastructure,
including canteen, accommodation units, airfield, roads, water supply, power plant and port facilities at Svea. It is one of the last coal mines in the archipelago as coal is no longer profitable. It is Norway’s last call to reclaim its sovereignty over Svalbard.
project name:
Svea Coal Mine
status:
Completed
architect/builder:
Store Norske Company
date:
--
location:
(Svalbard, Svea) Industry / Infrastructure / Territory
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1936
NORWAY
URSS
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FIRST SETTLEMENTS
sells Pyramiden
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TOWN OF SOVIETS
80ÂŤS
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energy
ONLY THE BEST
TRUST ARKTIKUGOL
In Pyramiden only the best in their field were allowed to come. The Soviet Union made a strict selec tion of inhabitants
Trust Arktikugol, a state-run coal company founded in 1931, took over ownership of both Pyramiden and Ba rentsburg.
al
co
1996
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COALFIELDS RIGHTS SVALBARD TREATY
a plane car rying 141 residents crashes and kills eve ryone on 1991 board
COLLAPSE OFTHE URSS
No more state subsidies
1998
Pyramiden: founded by Sweden in 1910 and sold to the Soviet Union in 1927. It lies at the foot of the Billefjorden on the island of Spitsbergen and is named for the pyramidshaped mountain adjacent to the town. Owned by the state-owned Russian mining
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The SvalbardTreaty dictated that not all Norwegian laws applied on the islands, and that all signatories of the treaty have equal rights to develop and pursue commercial activities on the islands.
PYRAMIDEN ISABANDONED In October 1998 the last permanent residents leave Py ramiden.
company Trust Arktikugol, which also owns the settlement of Barentsburg, Pyramiden once had a population of over 1,000 inhabitants. On March 31, 1998, the last coal was extracted from the mine and the last permanent resident left by October 10. Until
2007, Pyramiden was practically a ghost town where, within the buildings, things remained largely as they were when the settlement was abandoned in a hurry. Pyramiden is here understood as the distopian future that Norway is trying to avoid.
project name:
Pyramiden
status:
Completed
architect/builder:
Soviet Union
date:
1910
location:
(Svalbard, Pyramiden) Community / Political / Territory
OWNERS Kingsbay UNIS Store Norskes Boligstiftelse Svalbard Samfunnsdrift AS
Private Svalbarians
Ministry of Trade (NO) Ministry of Education (NO) Ministry of Trade (NO) Ministry of Trade (NO)
(microentrepreneurs)
22 Rental Properties $565 Price Average
Owners responsible for healthcare, the fire department, the kindergarten, roads, garbage disposal, power production, the water and sewer system, the cinema, cultural actives and the library
$$ Private Tourists
3% Fee
airbnb website
Airbnb is a website for people to list, find, and rent lodging. It has over 1,500,000 listings in 34,000 cities and 190 countries, including Svalbard. Airbnb runs on a marketplace platform model where it connects hosts and
travelers and enables transactions without owning any rooms itself. Such platforms disrupt traditional industries by creating new sources of supply and relying on curation for developing quality. Unlike traditional hotels,
Airbnb scales not by scaling inventory but by increasing the hosts and travelers and matching them with each other.
22 Rental Properties $565 Price Average Private Rental of State-owned property (microentrepreneurship) Service Fees Airbnb Private Svalbardians State/Institution-Owned Property
project name:
Airbnb Inc.
status:
In Use
architect/builder:
--
date:
2008 - Present
location:
190 Countries Adaptive /Information /Infrastructure / Temporary
Private Svalbarians
Sea Ice
EUROPE
ASIA
Fast Internet Andøy NORWAY
Longyearbyen SVALBARD
Svalbard was chosen for the location of SvalSat because of its high latitude which allows all satellites in a low Earth orbit with an orbit above 500 kilometers (310 mi) to use only a single ground station, yet allow downloading from every orbit. However, the ground station’s capacity was limited by its broadband capacity
Helsinki
Fibre Optic Cable
INVESTORS
Telenor Tyco Hannon Armstrong NASA Norwegian Space Center
An optical fiber cable is a cable containing one or more optical fibers that are used to carry light. The optical fiber elements are donors typically individuallyseed coated with plastic layers and contained in a protective tube suitable for the environment where the cable will be
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Private Private Private United States Government Ministry of Trade (NO)
deployed. Different types of cable are used for different applications, for example long distance telecommunication, or providing a high-speed data connection between different parts of a building. Planning of the cables started in 2002 by the Norwegian
Space Centre (NSC), who wanted increased bandwidth to expand their business at Svalbard Satellite Station (SvalSat). At the time all telecommunications from Svalbard were relayed via communications satellite.
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project name:
Svalbard Undersea Cable System
status:
Completed
architect/builder:
Telenor, Tyco, NSC, NASA
date:
2003 - Present
location:
Harstad to Breivika in Andøy; Breivika to Hotellneset near Longyearbyen Infrastructure / Mobile
SE
Liu Xiaobo
Incarcerated
Nobel Prize
NORWAY
CHINA Restrictions on imports and Visas Beijing Zhongkun Investment Group
Private Owner
Ole Einar Gjerde
217 square km
Housing Prices Comodities Markets Currency Exchange
The real estate market in Svalbard is different from the mainland. Most houses and apartments are owned by companies and institutions that provide them to their employees as part of the work relationship. This 217 square kilometers large plot is one of
two privately owned properties on the Arctic archipelago. It has its own mountain and is estimated to hold over 20 million tons of coal. Norway is reluctant to sell the property on Svalbard to China, claiming that the bid is more connected to international high politics
and the possibility to get a foothold in the Arctic. China has recently declared itself a “near Arctic state,� a big stretch as even its northernmost region lies more than 1,000 miles from the Arctic Circle.
Gjerde Property Longyearbyen
owner:
Ole Einar Gjerde
status:
bidder:
Beijing Zhongkun Investment Group date:
location:
Longyearbyen, Svalbard
Rejected (blocked by Norway) 2014
217 sq km
Territory
Beijin Inves
Housing Prices Comodities Markets Currency Exchange
Firm Office
NYSE Fiber Cable
+ Latency NYSE Exchange Server
Matching Engine
Trading Platform A
Trading Platform B
Euronext Facility Mahwah, NJ
The NYSE Euronext data center in Mahwah, New Jersey serves a future in which the majority of trading volume will be driven by computers. As the financial markets are being transformed by technology and global trading networks, data centers have become the
industry’s new trading floors. High frequency trading has resulted in a battle to place trading platforms in the closest positions to the Exchange servers, as these spots have the shortest fibre optic connections and therefore the lowest latency. This has resulted in a new
market for the NYSE (and any Exchange) to locate their main servers off-site in a facility large enough to co-locate additional trading platforms. In exchange for placement near the main Server, the facility organizor can charge a substantial fee.
The speed of light is the ultimate limit to how rapidly trades can be made between financial centres The midpoints between exchanges are the optimal sites to place high-frequency trading computers because they access information from both simultaneously and with minimum latency.
project name:
NYSE Euronext
status:
Completed
architect/builder:
--
date:
2010
location:
Mahwah, NJ (USA) Ecology / Infrastructure / Mobile
100 Million Customers (USA) 3rd Party Sellers
Decreased Costs 48 Hours
Trucks, Drones
PHX6 1.2 Million Sq Ft
Trucks, Drones
Replenishing deliveries
The Fulfillment Center is the anchor of Amazon’s physical operations, the brick and mortar behind the virtual button you tap on your phone to summon just about anything else to your doorstep. The workings
of Amazon are almost entirely hidden from view. Amazon’s fulfillment centers have the potential to become the networked hubs of the consumer economy, the biggest of big boxes that free up businesses to focus on making
things rather than moving them. Part of a network of 25 global fulfillment (or shipping) centers, ‘PHX6’ represents a condensing and streamlining of the distribution sector.
project name: location:
‘PHX6’
size:
(Amazon Fulfillment Center)
date:
1.2 million sq ft
Phoenix, USA Information / Network / Infrastructure
Instant City: In reaction to the local culture feeling undernourished and resentful of the more favoured metropolitan regions, while rejecting the physical nature of the metropolis, the Instant City project proposes a “traveling metropolis�, a package that
comes to a community, giving it a taste of the metropolitan dynamic. Instant City is a mobile technological event that drifts into underdeveloped, drab towns via air (balloons or airships) with provisional structures (performance spaces) in tow. The effect
is a deliberate overstimulation to produce mass culture, with an embrace of advertising aesthetics. The whole endeavor is intended to eventually move on leaving behind advanced technology hook-ups.
project name:
Instant City
status:
Conceptual
architect/builder:
Archigram
date:
1968-1971
location:
Flexible Adaptive / Community / Mobile / Technology /Temporary
Bridges Now Bridges 1978 Oil Platforms Now Oil Platforms 1978
Neft Daslari: An industrial settlement built by the Soviet Union in Baku, Azerbaijan. A full town on the sea, it was the first oil platform in Azerbaijan, and the first operating offshore oil platform in the world, incorporating numerous drilling platforms. The settlement began with
a single path out over the water and grew into a system of paths and platforms built on the back of ships sunk to serve as the foundation. Neft Dashlari was meant to hold a population of 5,000 with civic programs and attractions. Today it harbors less than half that number
and constantly fights against natural forces. Despite broken bridges and submerged apartments, Neft Daslari still exists both for its symbolic values and that taking it apart would be more pricey than allowing it continue operations in its diminished state.
project name:
Neft Daşları
status:
Completed
architect/builder:
Unknown
date:
1949-1978
location:
Azerbaijan, Baku Energy / Industry / Infrastructure / Network / Political
VISITOR LOGIN: PERSONALITY ASSESSMENT COMPUTER ASSESSMENT
RELATIVE POSITION DETECTION AFFINITY/ANTIPATHY SIGNALS
weather station
pumps
water pressure regulating cpu sand filters
water intake pumps
COMPUTER ASSESSMENT
WEATHER SIGNALS WATER PRESSURE CHANGE
Blur Building: The centerpiece pavilion of the the sixth swiss national exhibition is a suspended platform shrouded in a perpetual cloud of man - made fog, hosting up to 400 visitors at a time. The form, based on the work of Buckminster Fuller, is a tensegrity
system of rectilinear struts and diagonal rods cantilevering out over the lake. A builtin weather station controls fog output in response to shifting climatic conditions such as temperature, humidity, wind direction, and wind speed. The interactive media project
MIST CONDITION CHANGE
features also a wearable, wireless technology embedded into ‘brain coats’, technologically - enhanced raincoats. visitors’ brain coats will react to each other, indicating either positive or negative affinity between visitors through color changes and sound.
project name:
Blur Building
status:
Completed
architect/builder:
Diller Scofidio + Renfro
date:
2002
location:
Switzerland, Yverdon-les-Bains Community / Infrastructure / Technology / Temporary
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reactor buildings UND
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IN LOW
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reactor buildings
refrigeration plant
refrigeration plant
UND GRO
reactor buildings UND
GRO
ER F WAT
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S HILL
FREEZE PIPES PLANTED UNDERGROUND
N CEA CO I F I PAC
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IN LOW
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freeze pipe
ice wall (frozen soil)
reactor buildings freeze pipe refrigeration plant ice wall (frozen soil)
FROZEN SOIL FORMED AFTER 6-8 WEEKS
refrigeration plant
FROZEN SOIL FORMED AFTER 6-8 WEEKS
Fukushima Ice Wall: More than four years after the catastrophic tsunami that crippled several nuclear reactors in Fukushima, TEPCO, the Japanese utility that owns the site is struggling to deal with a continuous flood of radioactive water. To reduce the 300 tons
of newly created radioactive water each day, TEPCO proposed building an underground ice wall to cut off the flow of groundwater into the nuclear complex. Vertical cooling devices are situated around the perimeter of the nuclear power plant, forming a 1.5-km-long sunken
wall of frozen soil encircling stricken reactor buildings. Once the system begins running, it will take several months to completely freeze the soil into a solid ice wall, by then reducing the amount of groundwater flowing into the reactor buildings to about 50 tons a day.
project name:
Fukushima Ice Wall
status:
In Construction
architect/builder:
Tokyo Electric Power Co (TEPCO)
date:
2014-2015
location:
Japan, Fukushima Energy / Industry / Infrastructure / Technology
May. - Nov.
Water Ice Land Dec. - Apr.
Floating Sauna: Anchored in the middle of the Hardangerfjord, this floating sauna provides a level of privacy through its translucent membrane walls while allowing daylight to pass through. During summer months the sauna floats on water, accessible
only with rowing boats. Two hole cut out from the water floor serve as entrance/exits as well as a dipping pool. When the sea is ice-covered from December to April, this sauna should be lifted ashore. A vertical door serve as entrance when the two holes at the bottom are
inaccessible. Used materials are Norwegian Jรถtul-oven, plastic walls, pinewood structure, stones, storm oil lantern, old oil barrels. The Floating Sauna is built on shore and floated on site, then anchored to be used.
project name:
Floating Sauna
status:
Completed
architect/builder:
Casagrande & Rintala
date:
2002
location:
Norway, Rosendahl village Adaptive / Community / Harbor / Mobile
north wind
2000 feet
north wind
1000 feet
15 kilowatts
south wind
30 kilowatts
500 feet
10 kilowatts
115-220V SWITCH YARD SUBSTATION CONTROL HOUSE TRANSFORMER WINCH POWER GRID
begin to deploy
24 hours
Altaeros’ Buoyant Airborne Turbine (BAT) is an inflatable, helium-filled ring with a wind turbine suspended inside. It will float at a height of 300 meters, where winds tend to be far stronger than they are on the ground. The altitude of the BAT is about double the hub
strong wind day
height of the world’s largest wind turbine. The BAT has a power capacity of 30 kilowatts and will create enough energy to power about 12 homes, the company says. But that’s just the beginning. It can also lift communications
weak wind day
equipment such as cellular transceivers or meteorological devices and other sensing equipment. Altaeros said additional equipment does not affect the energy performance of the turbine.
project name:
Buoyant Airborne Turbine
status:
Prototype
architect/builder:
Altaeros Energies
date:
2014
location:
Fairbanks, Alaska Energy / Mobile / Technology
Movable Pier Hotel
hotel section
hotel plan
Docking (Parking) Mode
Moving Mode
Swedish architecture firm jagnefalt milton has been awarded third prize for ‘a rolling master plan’, their proposed development for the idea competition of andalsnes in norway. The design utilizing new and existing train tracks to create a diverse system where buildings
roll through the city on rails, providing an opportunity to reorganize programmatic requirements in relation to the urban space. The mobile flexibility allows the city to adjust for uses such as concerts, festivals, markets, and seasonal changes. The integration of
mobile structures – including a rolling hotel, public bath and concert hall – has the potential to transform the city into a dense, integrated and continually changing scenography.
project name:
Rolling Masterplan
status:
Conceptual
architect/builder:
Jagnefalt Milton
date:
2010
location:
Ă…ndalsnes, Norway Community / Mobile / Network
Travel Mode
Base Camp Mode
Designed by Matthieu Tarrit, Charles Zamolo and Hugo Cerf, the Polar Vehicle is a prospective project realized in association with an NGO named International Polar Foundation. The vehicle was designed to adapt itself to the surroundings and the needs of the
scientists researching in hard-to-live places such as Antarctica. The front of the Polar Vehicle is the truck tractor, while its center is the where all the controls rest. The vehicle was conceived to
solve two main purposes – make the scientists travel with easy on the harsh terrain and secondly serve as a base camp with all amenities.
project name:
Multiple-Use Polar Vehicle
status:
Conceptual
architect/builder:
Matthieu Tarrit/Charles Zamolo
date:
2009
location:
Antarctica/the Arctic Adaptive / Mobile / Technology
1
3X_Single unit Area: 50 m2 Location: riverside
EXPAND
2
5X_Family unit Area: 78 m2 Location:riverside
EXPAND MOVE INLAND
3
10X_Business unit Area: 150 m2 Location: Inland
The Port X is an innovative modular home that can pop up on both land and water, extending the possibilities of prefab architecture. Designed by architects Jerry Koza and Adam Jirkal, along with engineer Tomáš Kalhaus from Atelier SAD the sleek C-shaped dwelling
sits on the Vltava River in Prague. The stylish modern home can pop up practically anywhere and then move from place to place as needed. The Port X features a flexible design that can be extended or reduced to provide the perfect amount of space for its owners. The home’s
curvilinear C-shaped sections are made up of wood and laminate, and they can be easily attached together to create larger spaces. The residential shells rest on pontoons that contain all of the home’s technical inner workings.
project name:
Port X
status:
Prototype
architect/builder:
Jerry Koza, Adam Jirkal
date:
2014
location:
Prague, Czech Republic Harbor / Mobile / Temporary
1
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2,814,457s
2
Active ingoing queuing
60min.
Exposition I
50min.
Exposition II
40min.
Exposition III
30min.
Cafe
10min.
Lounge
3
On board
4
Active outgoing queuing
+20min.
Souvenior shop
+60min.
Restaurant
3
1 4 2
UNStudio’s ‘Nippon Moon’ giant observation wheel has been designed to create a journey in which learning about the environment, culture and one’s individual part in this is central. Four key elements define the logics of the socio-architectural design; enhancement
of the senses, interactivity, experience and romanticism. Through the integration of interactive design elements a virtual world was created in which the visitor becomes part of the social network which revolves around the GOW. Discovery, the Ride and the Return are
three chapters of the design which contribute to attracting visitors and to the stimulation of the imagination.
project name:
Giant Observation Wheel
status:
Conceptual
architect/builder:
UNstudio
date:
2012
location:
Japan Information / Technology
Google currently owns and operates 14 data centers around the world, 7 in the United States, 1 in Chile, 1 in Taiwan, 1 in Singapore, 1 in Finland, 1 in Belgium, 1 in Ireland, and 1 in Netherlands. In addition to Google’s search engine, the company also works in advertising,
productivity tools, and enterprising products as well as research and development of new software and hardware such as Android OS, Google Earth, the Google Glasses, driverless cars, and Google Fiber. Google’s innovations have always been criticized for its invasion
of privacy; there have been a number of litigations against Google for collecting personal information. Although Google’s internet services cover the entire globe, it’s physical data centers are protected perhaps even more securely than it’s online presence.
project name:
google data centers
status:
completed
architect/builder:
google inc.
date:
2015
location:
-Energy / Infrastructure / Information / Network / Technology
Amazon.com, Inc. is the most well known e-commerce company in the world. Founded and headquartered in Seattle, Washington, Amazon now have 127 fullfullment centers (FBA) in 14 countries around the world. Amazon opened their second FBA in Delaware
in 1997. In order to keep up with this level of growth, the company continues to open FBA centers around the world. In 2011 to 2012, Amazon opened 19 FBAs in North America and 20 new FBA centers outside of North America, totaling 30.4 million square feet
of space around the world. Amazon currently operates 167 active distribution center buildings including FBAs, sorting centers, redistribution centers, etc. The diagram shows a rough distribution of Amazon’s FBAs and a 2 day delivery radius around their locations.
project name:
amazon fulfillment centers
status:
completed
architect/builder:
amazon.com, inc.
date:
2015
location:
seattle, washington Industry / Infrastructure / Network / Territory
LCLA’s conceptual master plan for Kiev Island consists of a series of small scale inserts in and around the archipelago aimed at preserving the natural essence of the islands. The inseration of the operational clusters are intended to recover forgotten and unfulfilled citizen’s
desires such as taking a bath in the river, walking in the forest, enjoying clean water and experiencing the island’s natural environments in the middle of Kiev’s city center. In addition to recreational activities, these clusters will help preserve weakened environments and
passively generate clean energy. The diagram displays the various networks of programs and shows how that network could be extended to take over open space on the water and on land.
project name:
tactical archipelago
status:
conceptual
architect/builder:
lcla
date:
2012
location:
kiev Adaptive / Community / Ecology / Network / Territory
The arctic mobile unit is designed by 2-B-2 architecture for researchers in the arctic. The premise is a modular pod designed to provide life support for 3 people for a duration of 15 days. The pods would operate between -40 to 10 degrees celsius withstanding winds
up to 85km/hr. The pods are powered by a solar battery and a 5kW generator. It is built with steel frame construction, carbon panels, polyethylene and thermal insulating membranes. Each weights 1500kg and measures 200 x 160 x 230cm making each
pod quite portable. A potential system of immovable pods could be envisioned as emergency shelter for researchers on the Svalbard archipelago with a more dedicated infrastructure for power and water that are interconnected and linked to a larger source.
project name:
arctic mobile unit
status:
conceptual
architect/builder:
2-b-2 architecture
date:
2009
location:
arctic - north pole Infrastructure / Mobile / Network / Temporary
The Kamigoto Offshore Oil Storage Facility is one of the largest offshore oil storages in the world. It consists of five oil barges each with the capacity to store 880,000 kl. The size of each oil resevoir measures 390m in length, 97m in width, and 27.6m tall. The Kamigoto
facility can store up to 4,400,000 kl of oil, enough to maintain the entire nation of Japan’s oil consumption for over 7 days. The Kamigoto Oil Storage Facility was built in 1988 as a part of Japan’s national petroleum stockpiling program which started in 1978. This structure
is typical of the megafloat construction which consists of welded iron and steel with hollow concrete structures. The facilities are moored to dolphins in large wind and wave conditions and remain servicable during earthquakes.
project name:
kamigoto oil storage
status:
completed
architect/builder:
mitsubishi heavy industries
date:
1988
location:
japan Energy / Harbor / Infrastructure
1 Large concrete oil tank is surrounded by wing tanks in N’Kossa barge.
2 When oil is being transferred, wing tanks will be occupied by temporary ballasts.
N’Kossa barge is a large spread-moored barge that supports an offshore processing, storage, and shipping facility. It was installed offshore the Congo in water depth of about 200 m. It is 220 m long, 46 m beam, and 16 m deep, and supports 33,000 tn. of equipment and
structures. It was constructed in a graving dock in Marseilles and fully outfitted with the topside modules. Unusual was the use of reactive powder concrete to achieve a dense, high strength, concrete hull. Internal bulkheads were made of
precast slabs while the exterior hull was castin-place, using slip forms. Concrete barges have been employed to support floating concrete batching and mixing plants, because their mass provides stability and minimum motion.
project name:
NKossa Barge
status:
Completed
architect/builder:
Bouygues Offshore, France
date:
1995
location:
Nkossa oil field, Congo Energy / Harbor / Industry / Infrastructure
1 Constructions of the upper portion begins.
2 The structure will be built entirely on the platform.
5 The cranes are dismantled. The structure is raised using cables. Beams connected to the upper portion are removed.
3 The structure completed on the surface platform is then lowered into the ocean on a massive flotation device in the center of the surface platform.
4 The erection of the main structure is completed.
Designed for the equatorial pacific, presumably near Japan, Green Float is a concept for a series of floating islands with eco skyscraper cities, where people live, work and can easily get to gardens, open space, the beach and even “forests”. Islands are connected togeth-
6 The pillar of the curved portion are extended to their final positions. Permanent equipment is lifted into place.
er to form modules and a number of modules grouped together form a “country” of roughly 1 million people. A 1,000 m tower in the center of the island acts as both a vertical farm as well as a skyscraper with residential, commercial and office space. The green space,
the beach, and the water terminal on the flat plane of the island are all within walking distance. Energy for the islands would be generated from renewable sources like solar, wind, and ocean thermal, and they also propose to collect solar energy from space.
project name:
Green Float
status:
Conceptual
architect/builder:
Shimizu Corporation, Japan
date:
2014
location:
Equatorial Pacific Adaptive / Community / Network / Territory
An aircraft carrier is a warship that serves as a seagoing airbase, equipped with a full-length flight deck and facilities for carrying, arming, deploying, and recovering aircraft. Aircraft carriers are expensive to build and are critical assets. Aircraft carriers have evolved
from converted cruisers to nuclear-powered warships that carry numerous fighter planes, strike aircraft, helicopters, and other types of aircraft. A submarine is a watercraft capable of independent operation underwater. It differs from
a submersible, which has more limited underwater capability. The term most commonly refers to a large, crewed, autonomous vessel. Submarines have one of the widest ranges of types and capabilities of any vessel.
project name:
Aircraft Carrier / Submarine
status:
Completed
architect/builder:
Military
date:
1911- / 1900-
location:
/ Adaptive / Military / Mobile / Network / Political
1 No missions assigned Dockwise Vanguard operates as a ship.
2 Missions assigned Tanks intakes water to dive.
3 As the deck fully submerged into the water, structures are being pulled to sit on the deck, with strings connected.
4 Water in the tank is being pressured out. The deck surfaces. The structure could then be transfered or repaired in a dry condition offshore.
Dockwise Vanguard is a semi-submersible heavy lift ship owned and operated by Dockwise B.V. The Vanguard is the largest vessel of its type ever built, and is able to carry cargoes up to 110,000 tonnes. The Vanguard was designed to move offshore oil and gas facilities,
but can also carry other ships and act as an offshore dry dock facility. As offshore oil and gas facilities have grown in size, Dockwise saw a market for a ship that could carry the largest floating oil rigs to their destinations, reducing time and costs of transportation and allowing
rigs to be built economically in a shipyard. The Vanguard has a flat bow-less deck measuring 70 by 275 metres (230 by 902 ft), allowing cargo longer and wider than the deck. The watertight deck allows water to flow over the deck without risking the ship.
project name:
Dockwise Vanguard
status:
Completed
architect/builder:
Dockwise Shipping B.V.
date:
2012
location:
Willemstad, Netherlands Harbor / Industry / Infrastructure / Mobile / Technology
1 With a volume of 20 000 m3, the concrete hull constitutes about 80% of the total lightship mass of 53 000 tonnes. The base of the concrete hull measures about 110 m (width) times 87 m (length). It consists of a slab with a thickness of 0.4 m to 0.8 m.
2 To achieve dry loading off-shore, MPU heavy lifter could work as a submarine by take in the water into its concrete column structures.
3 The heavy lifter then being pulled surrounding the structure. It’s capture arms hold the upper part of the structure, with its lower part cutting the connection.
2 In many situations, structures like oil rig or ships need repair in dry condition. To achieve dry loading off-shore, MPU heavy lifter could work as a submarine by take in the water into its concrete column structures.
The MPU Heavy Lifter is a large lightweight concrete structure that has been conceived to perform heavy offshore lifting operations. MPU is short for Multi Purpose Unit and reflects that the unit is intended for multiple uses such as removal of abandoned offshore
structures, installation of new or refurbished offshore structures, floating production, floating storage, oil spill recovery unit, support structure for offshore oil and gas exploration facilities and floating dock. The innovative structure is developed for offshore heavy
lifting operations like removing or installing platforms. Its hull is composed of highly reinforced and prestressed lightweight concrete forming slabs and walls with thicknesses between 0.3 m and 0.9 m.
project name:
MPU Heavy Lifter
status:
Completed
architect/builder:
MPU Offshore Lift ASA
date:
2006
location:
Netherlands Industry / Infrastructure / Mobile / Technology
Built in 2009, the Chevron Legacy is a marine fuel station for Vancouver harbor. Functionally, one of the most significant components of the Legacy is its double hull system that helps prevent any risk of oil pollution from hull damage. The Legacy was
manufactured in Alaska by builders, Alaska Ship & Drydock and then towed and installed in Vancouver. With its impossible-to-miss signage, the Legacy is a prototype that can be multiplied
and placed in a variety of locations. While autonomous as a structure, the Legacy is both a representation of Chevron as a corporation and a flag marking its territory at sea.
project name:
Chevron Legacy
status:
Completed
architect/builder:
Robert Allan Ltd., Naval Architects
date:
2009
location:
Vancouver, Canada Energy / Industry / Maritime / Mobile
Nu Oil is the winning proposal for competition, “Filling Stations” which called for participants to “rethink fuel.” The premise is a floating vessel that replaces the gas station typology and creates a different method of distribution.
At the ground, there is only a fueling dock to which the floating vessel connects from above, eliminating the need for underground infrastructure. The concept also gives potential of providing fuel to diaster relief locations that have
difficult access to fuel. This concept forms a relationship between air and ground when it comes to fuel and creates a new kind of network that is both semiautonomous and distributed.
project name:
Nu Oil
status:
Conceptual
architect/builder:
Felix Yang + Thomas Noussis
date:
2015
location:
-Adaptive / Energy / Industry / Mobile
Google Barges was a venture by Google and designed by Gensler and New York firm, LOTEK to provide a structure that gives exposure to new technology as well as give greater purpose to the San Francisco waterfront. Built with shipping containers, the prototype
By and Large Studio had a program of data demonstration spaces, offices, and a party deck that served primarily the public. The initial concept was that the barge were to travel from pier to pier monthly for 2 years. Google even started construction on barges in
San Francisco and Portland, Maine, however construction ended after 2 years due to failure to comply to fire safety code.
project name:
Google Barges
status:
Prototype
architect/builder:
LOT-EK + Gensler
date:
2010 - 2012
location:
San Francisco, CA Community / Harbor / Information / Technology / Temporary
STADT LAND SCHWEIZ
Stadtland is a 7 year concept developped by MVRDV to reconsider urban growth. The concept is a distribution of zones and territories that serve the different needs of a city and country. What is floating is the movement from one
zone to the other based on infrastructure and topography. MVRDV reconsiders territories of that which belongs to the country. On top of that using Switzerland as a prototype, MVRDV addresses the neutrality at which one can
zone functions purely based on geography and topography that then can not only serves Switzerland but also all of Europe.
project name:
Stadt Land
status:
Concept
architect/builder:
MVRDV
date:
1997-2004
location:
Switzerland Energy / Industry / Infrastructure / Network / Territory
The World’s Fair + Expo is the quintessential example of a floating institution. Beginning in London with the Crystal Palace, the Fair is a temporary exhibition in which all countries partcipate and showcase the finest that their industries have to offer. The World’s
Fair primarily draws focus on innovation of industry and technology. Not only does the travelling exposition give accessibility to the rest of the world but it also brings the host city to the spotlight. By doing so, temporary and permanent infrastructure
and architecture are developped to sustain the event and house to the world in one venue.
project name:
The World’s Fair / Expo
status:
On-going
architect/builder:
--
date:
1851-present
location:
varies Community / Mobile / Network / Political / Temporary