Free country is threatened by the water. So supposed to be is right on top of the world. Its not as floats or a house, its a hybrid clement curiositys happening. Its not tightening in the future, or possibly its already going on. Its the future of humanity is in the sea levels will continue to rise, but by how much the earth is getting hotter. The polar ice caps are melting in greenland and antarctica. The ice is receding. 6 times faster than expect. Sea levels around the world are rising. Geo mark the Helmholtz Center for research is located in kiel, germany. Some of the worlds top climate experts work here, including moji blood, teef, who studies Global Warming and its effects uses golson ice ponds. These enormous ice caps hold an immense amount of water. Just imagine if they were to melt away completely. Gooden global sea levels would rise by about 60 meters. This cease meter. And the increase of that magnitude would radically alter the earths geography. Much of Northern Europe could be submerged, the netherlands would vanish underwater. But even a small increase would have a major impact, major cities in coastal regions and further inland would be flooded. That includes london, boston, shanghai, washington, d. C. , and mumbai. As yet that wont happen for decades or even centuries. But if we dont limit Global Warming, it will eventually be unstoppable. And that is even if we stop emitting Greenhouse Gases and hireling, it will be its very late. As a bell for these huge sheets of ice, a dynamic systems. If they reach a tipping point, sea levels could rise a lot very quickly. But this is a sort of a gun type, and yet we know that happened at the end of the last ice age. We dont know if it could happen today is this. And then chris of one meter, or even 3 meters, is possible by the end of the century. I thought that i made a minute sea levels are rising and eventually many coastal regions might be reclaimed by the ocean. Since the 19th Century Global mean sea levels have risen by about 20 centimeters in the South Pacific sea levels are rising 2. 00 to 3. 00 times faster than the global mean. The island nation of tuvalu might be the 1st to be swallowed by the way fully one half of the netherlands lies just one meter above sea level. One quarter is below sea level. The country is protected by a system of polders, dikes and dams. But for how long the netherlands is developing innovative concepts to deal with the projected rise in sea levels. Here in amsterdam, a Pilot Project has created an entire community of Floating Homes. Sasha glasses is a Founding Partner of the space and matter architectural studio. And he and his family now live in one of the house boats. A small Building Initiative began acquiring the sites about 10 years ago. Theres room for about 30 homes, houseboats. Here are nothing new, but this project is one of a kind living on the water is incredible. Its a dream come true for me. This place feels like a big hospital if you come back from work and you feel relaxed and like youre on vacation, remember the design, the house himself has plenty of living space spread out over 3 levels. You wont find this kind of comfort on a traditional houseboat. Connects the floating settlement to the mainland. Weve got connections to the power grid, sewage and water systems, the internet and so on. Its a plug and play concept and its simple and it works really well. It was as good as its like when you pull your motorhome into a camping site, you can connect to the entire infrastructure system and miserable hooter infrastructure with a living on the water gives you a lot of the looks ability. One can start with, you can expand the community quickly, make it smaller. You can reconfigure it again and again, were in this concept has a huge potential with these Floating Homes generate much of their own energy with photovoltaics solar panels. Right now the site is purely residential, but sasha believes that this might change one day. Our vision is not limited to house boats. You could also have voting schools, offices and supermarkets. Just about any sort of structure actually. Studio Architectural Firm is located in the town of rice, like the company was sounded by kuhn an old house. Hes known around the world for developing Floating Solutions to problems posed by Climate Change and of an isolation. People call me the architect for me. That means that you use water to make cities better worldwide to try to take advantage of the water by building on water by thinking the flexibility of the water of a death created these that are more efficient and more adaptable. The dutch have been taming the water and fighting the rising and falling tied for centuries. Its not an artificial country. Were live on the me from the sea level, but we did build some dikes around it and we pump water out. So now we have a dry country, but of course with Climate Change with more sea level rise, we cant keep everything dry. So we now have to see whats the next next step in this fantastic machine because the netherlands body of sea levels continue to rise. The netherlands will be among the 1st countries that have to deal with the impact. Here. We have to take a lot of effort to keep everything dry. And i think what other architects and other cultures can learn from the dutch is that true, never can sit still. You have to, to think of the next, next steps in your inner city in your country. And we call this building for change and building for change. Makes its that you have to be flexible. We have to be ready for any change in politics, in technology, in climate, in whatever comes to us. And we dont, we have to make sure that we can create new cities, towns in visions, what he calls the blue sea, the floating metropolis that grows out of an existing city. By building on the water structures or even districts to be relocated to respond to Climate Change or new social condition is an optimist. He believes that architects and urban planners will play an Important Role in helping communities adapt to rising sea levels. So we also have to deal with nature and we have to start living with the water. And thats a moment that this kind of floating architecture taking us off toward a building top of the water, the best because its your city of your country is threatened by the water, the safest place to be is already on top of the water. Here in amsterdams i book, district, people are already living in Floating Homes and apartment buildings. Its a model Housing Estate that features designs by a number of architects. The structures are anchored to the sea floor, instead of carriages, there are docks for boats. The neighborhood is also different in another respect, its connected to the mainland by a jetty and the houses float on the water. So how would these structures actually built floating foundations that can be from, from concrete or from steel of opposites. And with that become big, very large floating platforms. And on top of the platforms, we can built almost anything from form parks and green to houses, to towers. And these are these big platforms. We can connect to our cities on the water or lakes or rivers or seas, and by death we can take advantage of that space. The range of possibilities seems endless. The ocean flower complex in the mall even islands, with 185. 00 villas and a floating golf course. The citadel apartment complex in the netherlands, a design that would use the water to help cool the buildings consuming 25 Percent Less Energy than conventional structures. A plan for an entire floating city. It features selfcontained Modular Construction and has lots of recreational space. The design for a floating mosque in the United Arab Emirates and a 25. 00 story, hotel tower in dubai rotating on a floating foundation. But couldnt althouse is mainly interested in designing floating residential communities. But only floating villas will never be enough if you really want to cure the problems of space, you have to also do with in high densities and high end densities means that we also have to make floating towers. So the next step for floating cities will be these things floating stars. So we need a tower for all to them. A Floating Office tower of 8 stories, and we do it in seal to cost lemonade, the timber, and put on the big fro the foundations. You can create almost same density as one basic idea, underlies Water Studios designs and accounts for its international success. People ask me, do you want to live on the water yourself . While i have a family, i have 3 sons. And there for me, i only want to live on the water if the quality of the comfort is exactly the same as all lent. But today, with all the technology, we have a favorable from the offshore industry and from form. The shipping industry become a platforms that nobody even noticed that youre on the water. This is the mass, lance storm surge barrier in the province of self holland. And they love that in the last big flood was in 1953. Nearly 2000 people were killed. The government said this cant happen again. During the storm, 200 kilometers of dikes burst, and water levels quickly rose to 3 meters. An estimated 100000 people lost their homes. Afterwards, the government ordered the construction of a system of 15 storm surge, barriers, dams, and other structures to house. I think the barriers arent enough. Theyre just a part of the system that helps us to keep our feet dry. It sounds simple, but its really quite complex. The country is still battling the threat of flooding. Dikes are being rebuilt and planted with vegetation. The chance of being widened and send junes raised. Rotterdam was hit hard by the 953 floods. The mass land area is one of the Worlds Largest moving structures and now protects about 1000000 people. The 2 lunch floating gates are each 240. 00 metres long, the retaining walls, a curved to withstand the force of the oncoming water. The barrier is closed only when a big storm is on the way. Rotterdam is europes largest seaport, and the barrier is designed to protect it, to the mars and venus. And this is the only barrier of its kind thats run by a computer. Weve worked hard to eliminate any technical complications that only the hours it takes just 2 hours to close the gates. This only happens when the water level hits 3 meters, either they know they want to tell me a lot about everyone in the netherlands, contributes to flood protection or through the taxes they pay. Even those who dont live near water in the more than a 1000000000 euros goes into the Flood ControlProgram Every year. And then the government also finances efforts to help parts of russia. Damn city center, collect and drain excess water in an emergency. Theres lots of open space in parking garages, theyre designed so that they can take on the run off water during floods. Rotterdam is particularly vulnerable to storm surges because of its coastal location. And because it sits in the delta created by the rhine and mass rivers, he is an unusual design floating pavilions