The Living Building Leonoor Leus
THE LIVING BUILDING | LEONOOR LEUS
FLOATING CITY Another means to freedom and movability in architecture, is the unoccupied territory of the ocean. Due to our current global warming conditions, the world’s seawater level is expected to rise 4.5 feet by 2100. Sustainable solutions are an urgent priority to waterfront cities and driving structures are part of a strategy of adaptation. One of the prototype projects is the Floating Pavilion, a mobile pavilion made out of floatable geodesic domes that houses expositions about architecture on water. Dutch engineering firm DeltaSync, who built the project, presented the Floating Pavilion as part of their manifesto on the Blue Revolution, a strategy that include several of the oceans strengths and benefits to expand human society. Their visions include modular cities that can expand gradually, in line with social needs and economical possibilities. Elements can be moved around to create a dynamic geography that changes along with the cities growth and transformation. The ‘living building’ could installed on land or be built water, creating floating structures offshore near a coast line in order to accommodate the growing population or victims of emergency situations such as flooding, natural disasters and more. This “urban oasis” would be floating in tropical ocean waters and could provide all the necessary elements to sustain modern life. The project will take cues from our physical sciences (biology, chemistry, and physics) to reenact processes of the natural world to harness the generative and restorative energies of the world’s oceans.
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