Oceanix: This is your future

Architectural firm Bjarke Ingels Group has revealed the photos of the floating city concept, which is designed so that it will be possible opposed to natural disasters, such as floods, tsunamis and hurricanes. It consists of collection of hexagonal shaped platforms, which are anchored to the seabed and offer enough space for approx 10 thousand residences. The place that bears the name Oceanix, simultaneously includes facilities for the production of electricity, fresh water and heat. It is expected to change and grow over time.

The organization strives to carry out the project, designed in accordance with the guidelines of sustainable development UN-Habitat, which works within the framework of the United Nations, group Oceanix, Ocean Engineering Research Center MYTH, Bjarke Ingels Group and other business partners.

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The world's first floating city has gotten the thumbs up from @UnitedNations 👍🏻👍🏽👍🏿 #oceanix and #bjarkeingelsgroup will lead the charge on this amazing sustainable development project as a solution to rising sea-level, land reclamation, and increasingly overpopulated coastal cities. #FloatingCities

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Architect Bjarke Ingels warned that it will by 2050, 9 of the world's 10 largest cities at risk from rising sea levels. We should not look at the sea as a danger, but as an opportunity on which we can build our future.

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BIG unveils Oceanix City concept for floating villages that can withstand hurricanes Architecture firm BIG has designed a concept for a floating city of 10,000 people that could help populations threatened by extreme weather events and rising sea levels. BIG founder Bjarke Ingels unveiled the scheme yesterday at a round-table discussion on floating cities at the United Nations's New York headquarters. Called Oceanix City, the concept consists of buoyant islands clustered together in groups of six to form villages. These clusters would then be repeated in multiples of six to form a 12-hectare village for 1,650 residents, and then again to form an archipelago home to 10,000 citizens. "We've based it on this modular idea of a hexagonal island," Ingels said in the presentation at the roundtable. "It has the omni-direction of a circle but it has the modularity and rationality of something man-made." Oceanix – a company that develops innovative ways to build on water – commissioned BIG to develop the concept, working with MIT's Center for Ocean Engineering and Oceanix. The scheme was unveiled at the First UN High-level Roundtable on Sustainable Floating Cities, which Oceanix co-convened with MIT, the Explorers Club and UN-Habitat, a UN offshoot mandated to work with city development. Eleanor Gibson for Dezeen #oceanix #cleanseas #citiesoftheworld#recycle #worldbestshot #floatingcities #architecture_best #greenarchitecture #urbanphoto #architecturephoto #explorersclub #clima #waterislife #unitednations #futures #bjarkeingels #cleanair #oceans #environmental #cleanair #climateaction #actonclimate #plasticpollution #airpollution #renewables #watste #ecoboost #gogreen💚 #climatechangeisreal #globalgoals @unhabitat @denzeen

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Floating cities are supposed to be located in the coastal sea near large cities. In the event of a disaster, they will be able to be moved to other locations. Self-healing material will protect them from dangers Biorock, which is 3 times harder than cement, but can still float in water.

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CONSTRUISONS #URopaCity Premières images d'Oceanix City, presented by notre architecte principal BIG – Bjarke Ingels Group : "Composée d'une collection de platformomes hexagonales moored au fond de l'océan, la ville flotante de 75 ha pourra accueillier à peu près 10,000 résidents et sera capable de produire sa propre énergie, de l'eau fraîche et de la chaleur." Via Creapills https://lnkd.in/dnhbbqD #architecture #architect #big #bjarkeingels #bjarkeingelsgroup #ocean #oceanix #oceanixcity #sea #nationalgeographic #oceanlover #climatechange #townplanning #urbanism #future #futuristic #cityofthefuture #futurecity #futurism #architecturelovers #architecturelover #architectureporn #amazing #blueocean #beautiful #nature #naturelover #smartcity

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The creators didn't even forget about environment protection. In the neighborhoods, you will not meet cars with a lot of emissions and trucks, and the collection of garbage to the sorting station will take place via pneumatic pipes. At the same time, we can be sure that the project will be the same stimulated the development of new technologies.

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⚡️The ideas of the Japanese architect Kiyonori Kikutake live on. And if at the end of the 50s of the 20th century, his "sea city" project seemed futuristic, then today's modern technologies fully allow the implementation of detailed and daring projects. ⠀ This is precisely what the #OCEANIX company is doing, which, together with the renowned architecture firm BIG (@big_builds), presented the floating city project #OCEANIXCity. The project has already received support from the # Organization of the United Nations and, according to the executive director of the #ООН Program for populated areas, Maymun Mohd Sharif, this project is "not just a theory". ⠀ The floating city project will allow not only to solve the problem of mass shortage of affordable housing, but also to level the threat in case of sea level rise. The structures themselves will be designed to effectively withstand all kinds of natural disasters, including # flooding, #sunami and #uragany 5 categories. ⠀ #PThe floating city of the future is a set of hexagonal platforms of hexagonal shape, each of which can accommodate 300 residents. The platforms will be made from the innovative material #Biorock, which is obtained by processing underwater minerals. The uniqueness of the material is that it is stronger than concrete and does not sink in water. The designers tentatively call the group of six such platforms "villagers". Currently, the city project includes 6 such villages, which will be home to approximately 10,000 residents. ⠀ Of course, like the overwhelming majority of modern projects, the city is primarily focused on ecology, and to be precise, on the new concept of "ocean agriculture", which involves growing food above the surface of the water. In addition, fishing and other seafood will be available in the floating city. The waste of fish production and the life of marine creatures will be turned into fertilizers for plants with the help of aquaponics, and the filtration systems will turn salt water into fresh water. Т ⠀ #плавучийгород #повышениеуровняморя 1TP5Тархитектурабудущего #городбудущего #бяркеингельс 1TP5Токеаническоеземледелие 1TP5Таквапоника 1TP5Текогород

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