The Seasteading Institute is an organisation dedicated toward creating sustainable sea platforms where people can choose to live if they’re unsatisfied with life on solid ground. They recently held a design contest for people to come up with new deep-sea micronations like Sealand, and the winner has been announced.
The Seasteading Institute is an organisation dedicated toward creating sustainable sea platforms where people can choose to live if they’re unsatisfied with life on solid ground. They recently held a design contest for people to come up with new deep-sea micronations like Sealand, and the winner has been announced. Sealand News
UPDATE: More images of some non-winners on Bustler.
Some of the other entries…
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hmmm, first place seems like a cut and paste job.
If people come here because 'living on solid ground is not satisfying' - how is this NOT like the living on solid ground?
Interesting
Well, it certainly ain't no Waterworld.
funny to think that this is the precedent:
yowza
i think this is another precedent in spirit.
and this.
I agree with awkeytect. Each of these is a decorated oil derrick platform. What are the advantages to being at sea? The biosphere one at least implies a wind-power collection with those sails. How about tides? All of them are on pylons above the waves--that seems like the most interesting design opportunity to me: the "motion of the ocean," and the daily changing level of the water.
The "advantage" to being out at sea is mostly political.
The whole idea behind the Seasteading Inst. is a libertarian political ideology which much like the "free" pirate radio stations of Europe from back in the 60s and 70s are predicated on the idea of freedom from national laws....
and how will this fare in near-hurricane force winds?
More images of some non-winners on Bustler.
They all look like something right out of video games like Sim City: Bad taste, poorly detailed, lack of function, style-oriented, with a rendering that is only good and realistic if you are flying over using a combat helicopter, but not for living there as space.
This is not an architectural competition, but a video game sprite rendering competition.
reminds me of the Freedom Ship concept for a 4,500ft long city at sea (described in Keller Easterling's Enduring Innocence):
two different styles above...
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