Floating Architecture and Structures – an Answer to the Global Changes

  • Floating architecture and structures – an answer to the global changes Currently a contradictory situation takes place. The climate and social change are going on. The sea level is rising by the smelting of ice and the extension of ocean owing to the temperature rise. This means: the building ground reduces above all things in costal and river districts. On the other hand the mankind and its claims with regard to living room is growing and more building sites are necessary. A smart solution for the conflict situation is the floating architecture. This means for example floating settlements and cities for South-East Asia or some places in Africa. In the consideration should be taken also so-called amphibious and floatable houses as a solution in case of floods in river destrics. For the moving building ground there must be investigated the following main points: - The resistance of usual materials and development of new materials and constructions, - Selfsufficency with regard to supply and disposal, - Safty of users andFloating architecture and structures – an answer to the global changes Currently a contradictory situation takes place. The climate and social change are going on. The sea level is rising by the smelting of ice and the extension of ocean owing to the temperature rise. This means: the building ground reduces above all things in costal and river districts. On the other hand the mankind and its claims with regard to living room is growing and more building sites are necessary. A smart solution for the conflict situation is the floating architecture. This means for example floating settlements and cities for South-East Asia or some places in Africa. In the consideration should be taken also so-called amphibious and floatable houses as a solution in case of floods in river destrics. For the moving building ground there must be investigated the following main points: - The resistance of usual materials and development of new materials and constructions, - Selfsufficency with regard to supply and disposal, - Safty of users and construction, pontoon included with regard to fire, waterwaves, water chemistry and ice, - adaptation of architecture and design to the regional and national conditions, - environmental protection, - economic aspects For the problems some examples are demonstrated in the paper. As methods of the work are used the numerical simulation and experimental investigations in lab and in-situ.show moreshow less

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Author: Horst Stopp, Peter Strangfeld, Anna Malakhova
ISBN:978-3-9504173-1-9
Title of the source (English):REAL CORP 2016, proceedings of 21st international conference on Urban Planning, Regional Development and Information Society
Publisher:CORP - Competence Center of Urban and Regional Planning
Place of publication:Wien
Editor: Manfred Schrenk, Vasily V. Popovich, Peter Zeile, Pietro Elisei, Clemens Beyer
Document Type:Conference Proceeding
Language:English
Year of publication:2016
Tag:Floating architecture
First Page:287
Last Page:294
Faculty/Chair:Fakultät 6 Architektur, Bauingenieurwesen und Stadtplanung / FG Bauphysik und Gebäudetechnik
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