Your country is threatened by the water safe supposed to be is right on top of the world. Its not a slow or a house its a hybrid. Clement geo cities happening its not happening in future or possibly its already going on. Its the future of humanity. Goodness and 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 expected sea levels around the world are rising. Geo among the Helmholtz Center of 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 using golson ice pan so these enormous ice caps hold an immense amount of water just imagine if they were to melt away completely theres a good global sea levels would rise by about 60 meters since 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. Yes nucular that wont happen for decades or even centuries but if we dont limit Global Warming it will eventually be unstoppable than that with even if we stop emitting Greenhouse Gases and hireling it will be too 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. And this is a sort of a gun type and yet we know that happened at the end of the last ice age but we dont know if it could happen today is a little and encrease of one meter or even 3 meters is possible by the end of the century and all that i read about him in the. 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 to 3 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. Such a glass and is a Founding Partner of the space and matter architectural studio and he and his family now live in one of the houseboats a small Building Initiative began acquiring these 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 Vacation Home to the hospital if you come back from work and you feel relaxed and like youre on vacation remember. Designed the house himself. Has plenty of living space spread out over 3 levels. You wont find this kind of comfort on a traditional houseboat. These jetty 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 its simple and it works really well this is continued this is its like when you pull your motorhome into a camping site. You can connect to the entire infrastructure system and miserable who had to infrastructure or. With a living on the water gives you a lot of looks ability. You can expand the community quickly make it smaller you can reconfigure it again and again 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 but you could also have voting schools offices and supermarkets just about any sort of structure actually. His studio Architectural Firm is located in the town of rice fight. The company was. Sounded by coup 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 of 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 taking the flexibility off the water of death created these that are more efficient and more adaptable. The dutch have been taming the water and fighting the rising and falling times for centuries. Its an artificial country we are live on the meat the sea level and what we did we built some dikes around it i mean 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 earth investing machine called 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 about all architects of the country 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 we have to be flexible we have to be ready for any change in political in technology in climate in whatever comes to us and we get we have to make sure that we can create new cities. Towns in visions what he calls the blue sea a floating metropolis that grows out of an existing c. Z. By building on the water structures rebin districts to be relocated to respond to Climate Change or new social condition. Crew 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 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 is the best because its your city or your country is threatened by the water the safest place to be is already on top of the water. Here in amsterdams 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 jesse 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. And with that become big very large floating platforms and on top of that forms 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 on 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 Maltese 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. A design for a floating mosque in the United Arab Emirates and a 25 storey hotel tower in dubai rotating on a Floating Foundation. But kuhn 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 in densities means that we also have to make floating towers so the next steps for floating cities will be these things floating mitras towers so we need a tower for rotterdam a Floating Office tower of rice or 8 stories and we do it in seal to cause lemonade the timber and been put on big for the foundations you can create almost same density as well 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 well 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 and but today with all the technology we have a favorable from the offshore industry and from form the shipping industry you can make that forms that nobody will even noticed that youre on the water. This is the mass lance storm surge barrier in the province of self holland. And they look within the next thing 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 metres and instrumented 100000 people lost their homes afterwards the government ordered the construction of a system of 15 storm surge barriers stands and other structures to help. The barriers arent enough there are 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. Mounted with vegetation beaches of being widened and sand junes raised. Rotterdam was hit hard by the 953 floods the mass land barrier is one of the Worlds Largest moving structures and now protects about 1000000 people. The 2 large floating gates each 240 meters 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 mountain and a 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 these 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 a pool for more than a 1000000000 euros goes into a Flood ControlProgram Every year and then. The government also finances if its to help parts of Rotterdam 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. Heres an unusual design floating pavilions theyre covered with a special for 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 comforts there are constant reminders that youre living on the water. We now return to amsterdam and the iceberg 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 at a shipyard on the ice on their big lake east of amsterdam on that are doing better here and didnt intervene so that way in construction work wouldnt be interrupted by bad weather even in winter shipyard and in his home or meds that summer when the units were finished they were shipped through the logs to us here doors at a camp and clar afikomen those out of there and encouraged to steel poles that were driven 16 leaders into the lake bed. And we designed the connections so that they could bridge the difference in height both of us feel of going overboard. But hope that difference is caused by the tides but its not very big like 60 centimeters of centimeter and the units can mill of affleck that includes the jetties which cover the utility lines for gas water heating and so on. You put the lines in flexible tearooms which are connected to the units and they can handle the rise and fall of the tide cylinders of ducts out open here and at the top used to have a Different Levels were also designed to adapt to the time its in our home long day. The units actually sit on a Floating Foundation thats composed of air tight concrete tubs. We chose concrete because its heavy and displaces water based on archimedes principle are depending on its weight concrete can displace many cubic metres of water. 2 for her and the head with we made concrete dumps in different sizes to balance the weight for build a boat camera is hills are for example a bathroom is heavy so we made the concrete base and thicker on the opposite side to offset the increased weight loss and further 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 and out. Look bad and out of the opposite of one house. Or what else can the netherlands teach us about finding new ways to build on and weve water. Again doubt 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 mental to. 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 lost on me but we also had difficulties getting a mortgage and house as 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 a. 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 della concorde and also includes his design studio. And. Yet beyond that the 2 Great Adventures of mankind are space and the sailor 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 31 meters below the waters surface up to 22. 00 scientists could work in the vessel rouge a recess that we know less about the scene than we do about space yet the media you know this for there are millions of creatures to study led for example the diversity of cell a plankton is a measurable then we only know a fraction of it and we need back. The scientists rouge recalls the aqua norse would live in a pressurized chambers so that they could take part in diving expeditions at any time. Where she big boost to a mere ive lived under water ive been involved in a dozen projects on his habitat its a bit work argument ive set World Records for a living underwater down through elementary its been extraordinary probably now movies for the. Swiss oceanographers Jacques Piqua was an early supporter of the project. It. Worked in the deepest parts of the us at 11000 meters. I can 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. It could drift with the ocean currents. 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. Since he was inspired by the work of 2 of his countryman. And jacques yves 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. Rouge a r