Future Sea Cities
Not designed to be built, but interesting to look at:
Intentionally or not, it’s a fitting name–”Refusion”–for a winning example of a futuristic homesteading concept based on refusal: refusal to be constrained by established governments or social mores or even by the fundamental desire for solid ground underfoot.
People’s-choice award winner in a design competition for “seasteads”–oil rig-like, sovereign settlements in international waters–this proposed research facility by a group of Las Vegas-based 3-D artists includes “a number of environmental systems, such as greenhouses and renewable energy sources, which would enable absolute independence,” according to a Team 3DA statement. “The aesthetic that emerged from this realization became influenced by a mixture of organic and mechanical systems operating in a symbiotic relationship.”
Photo and words via nationalgeographic.com.
I’d live there. Imagine if these cities had tuna pens as they roamed the seas.
I’d totally live there as well. Although my partner gets sea sick, so if not moored somehow that would give us problems.
I suspect we won’t be able to build any of these until after The Age of Storms has passed, maybe another two centuries or so, depending of course upon how we handle Global Warming now.