UN-backed floating city built to withstand Category 5 hurricanes is headed to South Korea - Business Insider
( November 19, 2021; Business Insider )
The goal is to develop a floodproof city that rises with the sea and produces its own food, energy, and freshwater. Cages underneath the platforms could be used to house scallops, kelp, or other forms of seafood. And aquaponic systems could use waste from fish to fertilize plants.
But the design isn't set in stone — and Oceanix hasn't determined the size of the city yet.
Madamombe said her team would collaborate with local designers in South Korea to tailor the prototype to the local environment. Oceanix plans to unveil the results of those efforts at a second UN roundtable in April, she said. From there, the team would start engineering the platforms and securing approval for construction.
The deal was signed by the UN and the city of Busan on November 18. The city is expected to cost about $200 million and a prototype may be completed by 2025. The design will make use of hexagonal design and a limestone coating that is two or three times as hard as concrete, but still buoyant. The firm, Oceanix, is in talks for more construction with at least 10 other coastal cities.
The idea existed first, and then the location was chosen. Here is a UN concept video from 2019.
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this is amazing. I never see floating city. But in our country, some farmers are used same process for make garden, that is floating vegetable garden
That's very cool! Do you know how it's constructed? It looks like there are stakes to hold it in place and I assume there's some sort of fastening so it can rise up and down with the water level? What is used to hold the soil, though?
These are made by simple method. The first is the accumulation of floating substances in the water, such as water hyacinth. The soil is given on that tall pile. The soils are also floating. And vegetables are planted on it...
Fascinating. Thanks! By searching for "water hyacinth" and "floating garden", I found this related video:
And also this video showing a team who's using a similar concept to create "floating wetlands" in Boston's Charles River (Massachusetts, United States).
The first video happened in Bangladesh. There are many farmers who do not have enough cultivable land, they cultivate in this way. Thank you for sharing these videos. i hope you like this method for cultivate...
You can watching this video, a Malaysian village. Hope you enjoy...
Nice to meet you. By the way, where are you from? (I am a Bangladeshi)
Thanks for the video. It was very interesting. I was surprised to learn that they don't know their own ages because they don't have words to describe the passage of time like days of the week or months of the year. It also made me curious to know how the speaker knew about those concepts, since it's not built into their language. Some ideas exchanged with speakers of other languages, it would seem, but I wonder about who, how, and when.
Nice to meet you, too. I'm from Pennsylvania, in the United States.
South Korea's Busan Coast floating city project collaborates with the United Nations Human Settlement Program (UN-Habitat) and Oceanix who have experience building floating cities in other countries. The floating city is planned to cover an area of 75 hectares and can accommodate 10 thousand residents. South Korea's coastal floating city of Busan is divided into six villages with one central port. Each village will have about 1,666 inhabitants. This is an extraordinary plan, bad climate and natural conditions often occur, especially in the coastal area of Busan, with this floating city, coastal communities on the coast of Busan will be controlled about their problems, sufficient food sources, processing seawater into fresh water and food availability, this is really an amazing design, but this project also really needs to get UN permission, Yes of course, with such a large population, the possible pollution of the marine environment that will occur, this really has to be done. noticed... 2025 we will see a beautiful floating city on the coast of Busan, South Korea.
It is an interesting project in my opinion, by 2025 the technology has advanced much more, so some issues could be considered and implement everything they have within their reach, the truth is I think that a little risky, the force of the waters of the sea cannot get predic though I guess they know what they do
Yeah, they claim it will be able to withstand a category 5 hurricane, but that's the kind of claim that you want to see in real life before you totally trust it.
The project seems fine to me, but the important thing is that there is a balance and harmony with the environment when carrying out this construction, since otherwise, the remedy would be worse than the disease.
Flood is one of the most brutal natural disaster now in this world. And my country, Bangladesh is now worstly affected by this natural nuisance. Our agricultural sector is being mostly affected now by it. Because of flood, our farmers invented various process of cultivation. Drainage system is one of them. Here is some eample of drainage system cultivation process in Bangladesh. All this photos are taken from google.
It is more important to characterise any step than to take more and more project. I see there are many good project that didn't reach it's goal yet. That is shocking. Anyway i am hoping good with this project.