He is an unusual design floating pavilions. Theyre covered with a special for oil thats 100. 00 times lighter than glass. And theyre environmentally friendly. Cooled by surface water and heated with solar energy. The pavilions are now home to a floating cinema. Nearby, a floating park hexagonal islands made of recycled plastic. Theyve been planted with vegetation and already seem to be drawing a crowd for a unique city getaway. You can rent this small houseboat called a vehicle boat. Its wrapped in 24. 00 layers of corrugated cardboard, which makes it light. And just about soundproof. The interior features a kitchen, bathroom living room and terrace. This vehicle boat is located near the rotterdam city center, easy access to sightseeing and restaurants. Despite all the conflict, there are constant reminders that you are living on the water. We now return to amsterdam and the iberville district with its 75 unit housing estate. Well that is when both its not a boat or a house. Its a hybrid before we have the units built. Have a shipyard on the, i saw mary, a big lake east of amsterdam and theyre doing better here in the winter. That way. Construction work wouldnt be interrupted by bad weather, even in winter shipyards, and in a storm or meds that summer, when the units were finished, they were shipped through the logs to us here, doors at a count and they are those out there anchored to steel poles that were driven 16 meters into the lake bed and we designed the connections support they could bridge the difference in height. Both of us feel oaken of a home as a whole. That difference is caused by the tides. But its not very big like 60 centimeters or Systems Integrator and the units can move. That includes the jetties, which cover the utility lines for gas, water heating and so on. We put the lines in flexible tearooms which are connected to the units. And they can handle the rise and fall of the tide, so that is of dot out, open near and over the top here is to have a Different Levels were also designed to adapt to the tides in our home long day. The units actually sit on a Floating Foundation thats composed of air tight concrete tubs, cause we chose the concrete because its heavy and displaces water based on archimedes principle. They are depending on its weight. Concrete can displace many cubic metres of water. So its 2 for her and they havent made concrete dumps in different sizes to balance the weight for build both camera is hills are, for example, a bathroom is heavy. So we made the concrete base and thinker on the opposite side to offset the increased weight loss and fairer. We explain all this to the residence. So if someone has a heavy sofa and a piano on one side of the unit, they can alter the balance by installing air filled tanks underneath the structure. Look bad a lot of hopes about it. And house. What else can the netherlands teach us about finding new ways to build on and with water dent out there, you have to have the courage to try something new. People in other countries could use our projects. As an example. You also have to be willing to experiment, and the netherlands also drew on an example. The famous Houseboat Community in the city of sausalito, california, which dates back to the 950. 00 s. Like many communities built on water, its legal status remained vague for years. It was but lost on me, but we also had difficulties getting a mortgage and house this of danks couldnt decide whether they were dealing with a boat or a house. So we had to come up with new solutions and in july 2019, paris recorded an all time high temperature, 42 degrees celcius City Residents are learning to live with climate extremes, from high heat to heavy rain and flooding. Paris hosted the Un Climate Change Conference in 2015, where delegates set a goal to limit the global temperature increase to well below 2 degrees celsius. In this century, renowned architect and oceanographer, Jacques Rouge has lived on this houseboat in the heart of paris for more than 4 decades. Its located near the plus telecom cord and also includes his design studio. Yet theyre gone. There are 2 Great Adventures of mankind. Our space and the sega 11, this is the future of humanity, and the rouge area has been working on this futuristic project for decades. An ocean based Research Vessel called the sea orbiter. Its shaped like a seahorse. The project still only exists as a model, but its plans call for a total height of 58 meters, with those one meters below the waters surface. Up to 22. 00 scientists could work in the vessel that we know less about the scene than we do about space. Yet they mean to you this for there are millions of creatures to study. For example, the diversity of cell, a plankton is a measurable, then we only know a fraction of it. And then we need back to the scientists recalls the aqua notes would live in pressurized chambers so that they could take diving expeditions at any time. Where should be crucial amir. Ive lived underwater to 6 that ive been involved in a dozen projects on his habitat and set World Records for a living underwater. Its been extraordinary. Probably now movies for the swiss oceanographers. Jacques piqua was an early supporter of the project. Eject, begat worked in the deepest parts of the earth at 11000 meters. Check out. Always encouraged me in my research on underwater settlements. And so he and i decided to develop a research lab that would be like the International Space station your youth, their lives. It could drift with the ocean currents with and provide a base for scientists like a beehive and to become the worker. Bees would fly out and collect Scientific Data on the marine environment. There to move. Rouge eery says he was inspired by the work of 2 of his countryman, jules van, and jacques eve cousteau. In 1962, cousteau spent a week in his underwater research facility, conch shells. He hoped it would be the dawn of a new age of marine exploration. In the 1970 s. Gan, to imagine these future of laboratories and entire villages on the ocean floor with Climate Change continues to progress. The idea of underwater settlements could become popular. And again, rouget redesigned this huge floating Research Center shaped like a manta ray. It would be 900 meters long and 500 meters wide and could accommodate up to 7000 people. A row of design imagines underwater rooms designed for holidaymakers. Very about it one day well have Space Tourism and also underwater tourism. Give us with facilities like hotels and Research Centers had the new reality is taking shape or because it has to the other architects are getting on board the u. S. Phone solace for came up with this idea for a Marine Research station to be based off the coast of bali, italian architect, john lucas, son tosswill. So developed this concept for a modular floating structure called high pick a. The individual units resemble vertebrae in the human spine. Its like a cross between a cruise ship and a hotel. The german Architecture Firm gave us whod of ill has designed a hotel thats to be built off the chinese island of high. None of the individual suites would lie below the surface of the sea. Mago cross a year, a vigil came up with and for a Lighthouse Hotel that harnesses wave energy to generate electricity. Some designs have actually been built the jewels undersea large in florida, which opened in 1906 bills itself as the worlds 1st underwater hotel. This is the atlantis luxury hotel resort. Located on the coast of dubai. It has more than 1500. 00 rooms, spread out over 23. 00 floors, and an aquarium that contains more than 65000. 00 marine animals. The eater undersea restaurant in the mall deve islands is located 5 meters below sea level. Europe now has its 1st fully submerged restaurant. Its called the unda, located on the Southern Coast of norway. It was designed by the oslo based Architecture Firm, snoo hetta, the same firm also developed the concept for this 100. 00 room hotel that lies at the foot of a glacier in the norwegian, arctic. The hotel will run mostly on energy generated by solar panels. Most of the plans are still dreams for the future designed by visionaries like Jacques Rouge. If you are and im a dreamer, but im also extremely pragmatic that i make my dream is reality. Of course, theyll get out dreamers and to do that, you have to be able to think clearly a, just to see, our society has caused a lot of destruction over the last 100 years. And we continue to destroy dettori. But we cant let these catastrophes continue through fees. We have to find solutions and implement them step by step over your stuff. Then he did another vision for living in a marine environment. The ocean spiral. It has 2 main elements, a sphere and towers structure that would provide living and work space for up to 5000 people, and a spiral structure that connects the sphere to a base station on the ocean floor. Russian architect alexander remys old, has designed a multiday. Noahs ark that could accommodate up to 10000 people lease water scraper concept comes from malaysia, a floating building that would generate its own food and electricity, and house thousands. But are ideas like this truly a utopia. As these would be, stopgap measures. I dont think people want to live underwater. Humans are used to living on land. Of course, its technically possible to live underwater. But i think our quality of life would really suffer. I live in the worlds less affluent regions will be hit hard by the effects of Climate Change is going to impact a lot. So if they see mumbai is one of them, jakarta is one of them, or soccer. Japan is going to have a flood. So as for the united nations, its a high, high alert actually the whole issue isnt a big threat to the ceiling as in sea level. Some coastal areas in asia are already taking steps to deal with rising sea levels. The has to Morris Center in an issue, you know, they have to move the whole city center to somewhere else, 40 kilometers of it, which is the already walking on by 2040 or something other, they have to move their city to some other place. They already have a plant which are ongoing. I think it could be similar situation for mumbai, old. Some 28000000 people live in the mumbai metropolitan region. The core of the city is built on several islands that lie in the arabian sea. This is a low lying area and rising sea levels pose a very real threat. Austrian architecture, ramez najah, says that coastal cities like mumbai, must adapt to these conditions. And that could include building floating communities as in 2 coffees of what sort this im convinced that entire cities will one day be built on water. You cant rely on putting up barriers, made of sand or other materials. A little bit of cities will have to be built on floating services in this new development would offer a number of advantages, particularly the construction of infrastructure near the city center and projects that generate energy, say its no different about solar. Ramas not john proposes the use of floating turbines that generate electricity by taking in water. The concept is similar to that used with hydroelectric dams in the austrian alps. The place to look east and the Technology Comes from austria because we have a lot of experience with hydroelectric plants. And the other element is the creative side where architects can play a role. Ramos and his brother, whos also an architect, have been designing water based communities for years. And theyre convinced that these projects will become reality from this point, its realistic because its going to be a step by step process. I dont think well be seeing mega projects in coastal cities in the projects will grow slowly and gradually like them blocks and wed see levels rising even more quickly. Solutions are urgently needed. Millions could be displaced by Climate Change. Yes. You know, how many climate refugees there will be more than 200000000 . 202300, 1000000 climate refugees. Where will they go . These refugees will come from developing countries, not wealthy countries. 300000000 people, where will they live . Will bangladesh or india take the men . Absolutely not. And this is an indian to think in low lying coastal countries like bangladesh. They cant do much to stop the rising water when they cant build dikes or other flood protection structures like we have in germany and the netherlands. So theres all this for one thing. They dont have the money and then its simply not realistic to build dikes along the entire coast. So even if the sea level rose by just 50 centimeters, millions of people would be affected by 9 of the worlds 10 largest cities are expected to be threatened by rising sea levels. By 2050. They will have to develop a Long Term Plan for adapting to the new reality. Through do you have to set a reasonable timeframe . It could be 100 years. But what is 100 years in the grand scheme of things . You have to happen magination, like our ancestors who built cathedrals. The sons of those architects and stone masons never saw the completed project that their fathers had begun or the grandchildren didnt either. But they had a vision for the future. You have to have that vision that the future is just a brief period of time in the course of human evolution. 100 or even 500 years means nothing. Centuries ago, people used to take a long term view. Your day comes that one of these long term projects is Jacques Rouge design for a Floating City off the Pacific Island of the u. S. Space. Seasteading institute has developed a concept for a Floating City project led by political theorist pantry friedman, the cofounder of pay pal, theres also one tool. The idea has a political dimension. The sovereign ocean colonies would be free from state control but floating communities must be available to everyone, not just the wealthy. The oceanic project is being developed in coordination with the united nations. The goal is to make floating cities available to the many coastal regions that are under threat. Those solutions are urgently needed. Nearly half of the worlds population lives within 100 kilometers of the coastline. Oceanic cities could grow and adapt housing anywhere from 30210000 people. The threat of rising sea levels might be right around the corner. Hamburg in northern germany could also be at risk if god, the homework is and its a real danger. Hamburg is located just 100 kilometers from the coast. And Research Indicates that if the sea level in 10 used to rise with the risk of storm surges would increase significantly already through the news reels recalled. A flood of 962 when a storm surge washed over the dikes and flood of the north sea coast. About 100000, people lost their homes, and hundreds of people were killed. And thousands as women are down knows. The storm destroyed dikes along several 100 kilometers of coastline. Hamburg was cut off for days, local residents were scarcely able to cope. And the situation today maybe even more dangerous, because since 1962, the sea level here has risen by 20 centimeters. This is the port of hamburg, more than 350000 people who live in this part of the city. A still threatened by storm surges. A lot of new projects are underway to protect them. These new prominent along the elba river also serves as a Flood Control structure. It was designed by zaha hadid architects. The prominent rises nearly 9 meters above the river. Homework pember is building a lot of new dikes to passen the female, but the authorities are doing what they can. But im not sure whether we can really protect ourselves against a major storm surges in the thinking here in this bizarre, for example, the half and city district, which was built on the site of the old horton, is especially vulnerable is on the sea levels. Were to rise by several meters. I doubt we could prevent flooding there, trying to come to certain if water levels in the north sea continue to rise, london, my also be affected goaltimate or poor. Do we, many large cities are at risk. And that includes london, and if you get off on all, if sea levels rise by 2 meters, i would assume that many parts of london would face Serious Problems for an extremely poor game of the comment about 9000000 people live in london, which is located on the river thames, about one 3rd of those residents live in the citys central district. Along the river. The thames flows into the north sea. But rising and falling tines still affect river water levels in london. One 6th of the city lies in an area thats threatened by flooding. Rising sea levels would put more than a 1000000 people and 500000 buildings here at risk and storm surges and floods have become more common in britain. In late 2013 and early 2014, southern england was hit by a series of severe storms. Heavy rainfall caused widespread flooding and power cuts and disrupted transport systems. In london, the thames burst its banks and many people were forced to leave their homes. The thames barrier is designed to protect the floodplain that includes most of Greater London from times and storm surges that move in from the north sea. Its one of the Worlds Largest movable flung protection structures. The barrier consists of 10, huge steel gates that are usually submerged, but can be raised into position in case of emergency. In my opinion, the thames barrier designed in future as one of the best examples of adaptation. Now those, its reaching the end of its lifetime. And there have been extensive studies to extent the usability of the thames barrier. There have been studies that have looked at a very wide range of scenarios up to, for example, rises of 4 metres. But some studies predict an increase of 5 metres by 2100. , the barrier was completed in the early 980. 00 s. , when scientists were predicting a much smaller rise in sea levels. But now reality is outstripping those projections. I think london 10 be protected. There is a lot of investment in london is a Big International hub. So it will be protected, no matter how well we protect a place like like that. So a mega city or a cost and make a city. There is always some risk remaining in case of failure defense failure. And so this is something that is considered in the design, and we should be prepared for the barrier will need to be updated. Sea levels are rising faster than anticipated, and london is at the forefront of planning for an uncertain future. Definitely london is setting the example for i think Something Like 4 cities that can be affected by coastal flooding. But there are other examples worldwide. And for example, the most body are in venice. And of course Different Solutions will fit in different places. But few coastal regions have a huge barrier like this to protect them from storm surges. If sea levels keep rising and many communities could be left to make difficult decisions. It often all starts monday and in some areas may simply have to be abandoned. In parts of wales, for example, communities are realizing theyre living on borrowed time with the local governments dont have the money to pay for flood protection. And so people will have to start thinking about where theyre going to live 3040 or 50 years from now. And then Floating Homes like these in amsterdam could offer refuge in a crisis. In the event of an emergency, for example, you could move house boats to hard hit areas fairly quickly to provide people with temporary accommodations. So long for now, most people here who live on the water do so because they want to youre so close to the water that you can actually go swimming or kayaking any time you want. A floating home is like an expansion of the city. Cities keep getting more densely populated, and buildings keep getting taller for the food. But as a living space in the hood, water is still largely untapped in affluent communities, Floating Homes are a lifestyle, a way to bring nature into the city. But they also often new ideas for adapting to Climate Change is going to introduce. You can either work against the water by building bigger barriers and so forth with of water or you can work with the water and embrace it. And thats what were trying to do with this project to work out what under the sea is coming toward us and we have no one to blame but ourselves. We call into it if we hadnt pumped so many Greenhouse Gases and Carbon Dioxide into the atmosphere. Oh, we wouldnt have this Global Warming and rising sea levels, so they made us because so this really is a problem that we ourselves have created. Good in the crosshairs of turkey secret service. 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