During extreme storms, it's common for city infrastructure — from roads to subways to parking garages — to flood.
Architects from Danish firm Third Nature want to build garages that can cope with future storms. They designed a garage that could automatically move up and down as its water reservoir fills with and empties floodwater.
— Business Insider
Third Nature's conceptual garage structure, Pop-Up, consists of an underground water reservoir, five parking levels, and a pedestrian space on top. Most of this 30,460-square-foot structure could exist underground on dry days. On wet days, the structure would automatically pop up using hydraulics and reduce the risk of flooding; a handy design for flood prone cities and as climate-change storms increase.
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once you size the hydraulics necessary to raise a concrete building full of cars, there will be no room for water
and other priorities that seem to have been overlooked.
I think the floodwater itself does the raising.
Could, but you would have to have hull like a tanker and no leaks, it's too heavy. Besides, the insurance cost of all the cars would be cheaper than building this.
Ships have been made out of concrete, buoyancy is not a problem. It's called displacement. It's actually an interesting idea, especially if they provide for using the accumulated water productively.
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