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of your country is threatened by the water safe supposed to be is right on top of the world. it's not it's vote or a house it's a hybrid. climate curiosity's happening it's not happening in future or possible it's already going on. it's the future of humanity. through this and the sea levels will continue to rise but by how much. the earth these guessing hossa the polar ice caps are melting in greenland and antarctica the ice is receding 6 times faster than expected sea levels around the

world are rising. geo among. the helmholtz center for research is located in kiel germany some of the world's top climate experts work here including moji blood teef who studies global warming and its effects using golson ice ponds these enormous ice caps hold an immense amount of water just imagine if they were to melt away completely gooden global sea levels would rise by about 60 meters since meter. and the increase of that magnitude would radically alter the earth's geography much of northern europe could be submerged the netherlands would vanish underwater but even a small increase would have a major impact a major cities in coastal regions and further inland would be flooded. that includes london. boston. shanghai.

washington d.c. . and mumbai. yet. that won't happen for decades or even centuries but if we don't limit global warming it will eventually be unstoppable than that with even if we stop emitting greenhouse gases and hireling it will be it's very late. for. these huge sheets of ice a dynamic systems if they reach a tipping point sea levels could rise a lot very quickly. and this is the sort of a gun type and yet we know that happened at the end of the last ice age we don't know if it could happen today is this and then chris of one meter or even 3 meters is possible by the end of the century i think that i read about him in this. sea levels are rising and eventually many coastal regions might be reclaimed by the

ocean since the 19th century global mean sea levels have risen. by about 20 centimeters in the south pacific sea levels are rising 2 to 3 times faster than the global mean the island nation of tuvalu might be the 1st to be swallowed by the way . fully one half of the netherlands lies just one meter above sea level one quarter is below sea level the country is protected by a system of polders dikes and dams but for how long. the netherlands is developing innovative concepts to deal with the projected rise in sea levels. here in amsterdam a pilot project has created an entire community of floating homes. sasha glasses is a founding partner of the space and matter architectural studio and he and his

family now live in one of the house boats a small building initiative began acquiring these sites about 10 years ago there's room for about 30 homes. houseboats here are nothing new but this project is one of a kind. living on the water is incredible so it's a dream come true for me this place feels like a vacation home you come back from work and you feel relaxed and like you're on vacation. without. such a design the house himself. has plenty of living space spread out over 3 levels. you won't find this kind of comfort on a traditional houseboat. he connects the floating settlement to the mainland. we've got connections to the power grid sewage water systems the internet and so on it's

a plug and play concept it's simple and it works really well. it's like when you pull your motorhome into a camping site. you can connect to the entire infrastructure system for one who had to infrastructure or. with a living on the water gives you a lot of looks ability. you can expand the community quickly or make it smaller you can reconfigure it again and again there is a. potential. these floating homes generate much of their own energy with photo voltaic solar panels. right now the site is purely residential but sasha believes that this might change one day.

our vision is not limited to house boats you could also have voting schools offices and supermarkets just about any sort of structure actually. a studio architectural firm is located in the town of rice fike. become pany was founded by kuhn old hopes he's known around the world for developing floating solutions to problems posed by climate change and of an isolation. of water architects for me that means that you use water to make cities better worldwide to try to take advantage of the water by building on water by taking the flexibility of the water over death created these that are more efficient and more adaptable. the dutch have been taming the water and fighting the rising and falling times for centuries. it's there this is an artificial country we're live on the me

from the sea level and what we did we built some dikes around it i mean pump water out so now we have a dry country but of course with climate change more sea level rise you can't keep everything dry so you now have to see what's the next next step in this interesting machine called the netherlands. body of sea levels continue to rise the netherlands will be among the 1st countries that have to deal with the impact here we have to take a lot of effort to keep everything dry and i think what's about the architects out of there from the dutch estates to never can sit still you have to. to think of the next next steps in your inner city and your country and we call this building for change and building for change makes it's that you have to be flexible we have to be ready for any change in political in technology in climate in whatever comes to us and with that we have to make sure that we can create new cities. towns in

visions what he calls the blue city the floating metropolis that grows out of an existing city by building on the water structures or even districts could be relocated to respond to climate change or new social conditions. is an optimist he believes that architects and urban planners will play an important role in helping communities adapt to rising sea levels so we also have to deal with nature we have to start living with the water and that's a moment that this kind of floating architecture taking use of toward a building top of the water is the best because it's your city of your country is threatened by the water the safest place to be is already on top of the water. here in amsterdam's district people are already living in floating homes and

apartment buildings it's a model housing estate that features designs by a number of architects the structures are anchored to the sea floor instead of carriages there are docks for boats. the neighborhood is also different in another respect it's connected to the mainland by a jetty and the houses float on the water so how would these structures actually built. floating foundations that can be from from concrete or from steel of opposites and with that become big very large floating platforms and on top of the platforms we can built almost anything from form parks and green to houses to towers and these are these big platforms we can connect to our cities on the water on lakes or rivers or seas and that we can take advantage of that space. the range of possibilities seems endless the ocean flower complex in the maldito islands with

$185.00 villas and a floating golf course. the citadel apartment complex in the netherlands a design that would use the water to help cool buildings consuming 25 percent less energy than conventional structures. planned for an entire floating city it features self-contained modular construction and has lots of recreational space. a design for a floating mosque in the united arab emirates and a 25 storey hotel tower in dubai rotating on a floating foundation. but couldn't althouse is mainly interested in designing floating residential communities. but only floating villas will never be enough if you really want to cure the problems of space you have to also do it in

high densities and high intensity means that we also have to make floating towers so the next step for floating cities will be the city's floating mitra's towers so when the sign now a tower for all to them a floating office tower of 8 stories and we do it in seal to cause lemonade to timber and put on the big focus foundations you can create almost same density as a live one basic idea underlies water studios designs and accounts for its international success people ask me do you want to live on the water yourself while i have a family i have 3 sons and there for me i only want to live on the water if the quality of the comfort is exactly the same as on land but today with all the technology we have a favorable from the offshore industry and from form the shipping industry you can make platforms that nobody will even noticed that you're on the water. this is the mass lance storm surge barrier in the province of self holland. and they love that

in the next thing to the last big flood was a 953 nearly 2000 people were killed the government said this can't happen again. during the storm 200 kilometers of dikes burst and water levels quickly rose to 3 meters an estimated 100000 people lost their homes afterwards the government ordered the construction of a system of 15 storm surge barriers stands and other structures to have the. barriers aren't enough there are just a part of the system that helps us to keep our feet dry it sounds simple but it's really quite complex. the country is still battling the threat of flooding dikes are being rebuilt and. hanted with vegetation beaches are being widened and sand june's raised. rotterdam was hit hard by the

953 floods the mass land barrier is one of the world's largest moving structures and now protects about 1000000 people. the 2 large floating gates are each 240 meters long. the retaining walls of curved to withstand the force of the oncoming water. the barrier is closed only when a big storm is on the way. rotterdam is europe's largest seaport and the barrier is designed to protect it to. the mountain against and this is the only barrier of its kind that's run by a computer we've worked hard to eliminate any technical complications of ours. it takes just 2 hours to close the gates this only happens when the water level hits 3 meters even a longer tell me about about everyone in the netherlands contributes to flood

protection through the taxes they pay even those who don't live near water in the pool for more than a 1000000000 euros goes into the flood control program every year and then. the government also finances efforts to help parts of russia dam city center collect and drain excess water in an emergency. lives lots of open space seen parking garages they're designed so that they can take on runoff water during floods. rotterdam is particularly vulnerable to storm surges because of its coastal location and because it sits in the delta created by the rhine and mass rivers. he is an unusual design floating for villian so they're covered with

a special force that's $100.00 times lighter than glass and they're environmentally friendly cooled by surface water and heated with solar energy. the pavilions are now home to a floating cinema. nearby a floating park hexagonal islands made of recycled plastic they've been planted with vegetation and already seem to be drawing a crowd. for a unique city getaway you can rent this small houseboat called a vehicle boat it's wrapped in $24.00 layers of corrugated cardboard which makes it light and just about soundproof. the interior features a kitchen bathroom living room and terrace. this vehicle boat is located near the rotterdam city center easy access to sightseeing and restaurants.

despite all the comforts there are constant reminders that you're living on the water. we now return to amsterdam and the iceberg district with its 75 unit housing estate. well that is when both it's not a boat or a house it's a hybrid. we have the units built have a shipyard on the i saw mare a big lake east of amsterdam on it are doing better here and didn't invent it that way construction work wouldn't be interrupted by bad weather even in winter shipyard and. that summer when the units were finished they were shipped through the logs to us here doors afrikaans and our africa always a. powder anchored to steel poles that were driven 16 leaders into the lake bed. and we designed the connections so that they could bridge the difference in height

both of which feel going over her at home that difference is caused by the tides but it's not very big like 60 centimeters justice in the mater and the unit still 1000000 if that includes the jetties which cover the utility lines for gas water heating and so on. you put the lines in flexible tubes which are connected to the units and they can handle the rise and fall of the child's letters of dots out open near and over the top used to have a different levels we're also designed to adapt to the time it's in our home long day. the units actually sit on a floating foundation that's composed of airtight concrete tubs. we chose a concrete because it's heavy and displaces water based on archimedes' principle. depending on its weight concrete can displace many cubic metres of water so it's 2

for her and the head with we made concrete dumps in different sizes to balance the weight for build both cameras hills for our sample a bathroom is heavy so we made the concrete base and thinker on the opposite side to offset the increased weight loss and sarah we explain all this to the residence . so if someone has a heavy sofa and a piano on one side of the unit they can alter the balance by installing air filled tanks underneath the structure. looks bad a lot of to go to and house. what else can the netherlands teach us about finding new ways to build on and with water. again doubt you have to have the courage to try something new people in other countries could use our projects as an example you also have to be willing to experiment and open to. the netherlands also drew on an example the famous houseboat community in the city

of sausalito california which dates back to the $950.00 s. . like many communities built on water its legal status remained vague for years. it was bet lost on me but we also had difficulties getting a mortgage and house as of the banks couldn't decide whether they were dealing with a boat or a house so we had to come up with new solutions. and. in july 2019 paris recorded an all time high temperature 42 degrees celcius. city residents are learning to live with climate extremes from high heat to heavy rain and flooding. paris host of the un climate change conference in 2015 where delegates set a goal to limit the global temperature increase to well below 2 degrees celsius in

this century. renowned architect and oceanographer jacques ruggieri has lived on this houseboat in the heart of paris for more than 4 decades. it's located near the plus della concorde and also includes his design studio. and. yet beyond that the 2 great adventures of mankind are space and the sailor 11 this is the future of humanity and the. rouge area has been working on this futuristic project for decades an ocean based research vessel called the sea orbiter it's shaped like a seahorse. the project still only exists as a model but its plans call for a total height of 58 meters with 31 meters below the water's surface up to $22.00

scientists could work in the vessel rouge a recess that we know less about the scene than we do about space yet the media you know this for there are millions of creatures to study lead for example the diversity of cell a plankton is a measurable then why we only know a fraction of it and we need back. the scientists rouge or recalls than aqua norse would live in a pressurized chambers so that they could take diving expeditions at any time. where should be crucial amir i've lived underwater to the x. that i've been involved in a dozen projects on his habitat it's a bit work argument i've set world records for a living underwater down through it's been extraordinary on the now movies for the . swiss oceanographers jacques piqua was an early supporter of the project. worked in the deepest parts of the year at 11000 meters. always

encouraged me in my research on underwater settlements and so he and i decided to develop a research lab that would be like the international space station. it could drift with the ocean currents. and provide a base for scientists like a beehive. the worker bees would fly out and collect scientific data on the marine environment. since he was inspired by the work of 2 of his countryman van and jacques eve cousteau. in 1962 cousteau spent a week in his underwater research facility conch shell. he hoped it would be the dawn of a new age of marine exploration. in the 1970 s. rouge a really big and to imagine these future of laboratories and entire villages on the

ocean floor. if climate change continues to progress be idea of underwater settlements could become popular and again. rouge designed this huge floating research center shaped like a manta ray it would be 900 meters long and 500 meters wide and could accommodate up to 7000 people. a row of design imagines underwater rooms designed for holiday making its. way about it one day we'll have space tourism and also underwater tourism with facilities like hotels and research centers had yeah a new reality is taking shape or because it has to. the other architects are getting on board the u.s. firm solo's full came up with this idea for

a marine research station to be based off the coast of bali. italian architect john lucas santos was so developed this concept for a modular floating structure called high pick a the individual units resemble versus brain in the human spine it's like a cross between a cruise ship and a hotel. the german architecture firm gave us buddha ville has designed a hotel that is to be built off the chinese island of high none the individual swedes would lie below the surface of the sea. mago cross a year came up with. lands for a lighthouse hotel that harnesses wave energy to generate electricity. some designs have actually been built there's use undersea lodge in florida which opened in 1906 bills itself as the world's 1st underwater hotel. this is the atlantis luxury

hotel resort located on the coast of dubai it has more than $1500.00 rooms spread out over $23.00 floors and an aquarium that contains more than $65000.00 marine animals. we eat our undersea restaurant in the mall deve islands is located 5 meters below sea level. europe now has its 1st fully submerged restaurant it's called the unda located on the southern coast of norway. it was designed by the oslo based architecture firm snow hetta. the same firm also developed the concept for this $100.00 room hotel that lies at the foot of a glacier in the norwegian arctic the hotel will run mostly on energy generated by solar panels. most of the plans are still dreams for the future designed by visionaries like jacques ruggieri if you could create our

i'm a dreamer but i'm also extremely pragmatic that i make my dream is reality of course get out dreamers and to do that you have to be able to think clearly. just to see our society has caused a lot of destruction over the last 100 years and we continue to destroy. dettori but we can't let these catastrophes continue. we have to find solutions and implement them step by step over your self then he did. another vision for living in a marine environment the ocean spiral it has 2 main elements a sphere and towers structure that would provide living and work space for up to 5000 people and a spiral structure that connects the sphere to a base station on the ocean floor. russian

architect alexander remy's old has designed a modern day no izaak that could accommodate up to 10000 people. these water scraper concept comes from malaysia a floating building that would generate its own food and electricity and house thousands but are ideas like this truly a utopia this may note these would be stopgap measures i don't think people want to live under water that humans are used to living on land. of course it's technically possible to live underwater but i think our quality of life would really suffer i believe its quality that. the world's less affluent regions will be hit hard by the effects of climate change. is going to impact a lot. so if they say mumbai is one of them jakarta is one of them was

like a japan is going to have a flood so as for the united nations it's a high high alert actually the whole issue isn't a big threat to the ceiling i think the lower. sun coastal areas in asia are already taking steps to deal with rising sea levels the has to more is sent to indonesia you know they have to move the whole city center to somewhere else 40 kilometers of it which is they're already working on by a 20 year think 40 or something other they have to move their city to some other place they already have a plant which are ongoing i think it could be similar situation for mumbled some 28000000 people live in the mumbai metropolitan region the core of the city is built on several islands that lie in the arabian sea this is a low lying area and rising sea levels pose a very real threat austrian architecture ramez najah says that coastal cities like mumbai must adapt to these conditions and that could include

building floating communities. as in 2 coffins of what sort this i'm convinced that entire cities will one day be built on water. you can't rely on putting up barriers made of sand or other materials a little bit of. cities will have to be built on floating surfaces to she even in this new development would offer a number of advantages particularly the construction of infrastructure near the city center and projects that generate energy sets no different about so it. proposes the use of floating turbines that generate electricity by taking in water the concept is similar to that used with hydroelectric dams in the austrian alps. to look east and the technology comes from austria because we have a lot of experience with hydroelectric plants. and the other element is the creative side where architects can play a role. ramos and his brother who's also an architect have been designing water

based communities for years and they're convinced that these projects will become reality. in this play it's realistic because it's going to be a step by step process that i don't think we'll be seeing mega projects in coastal cities in the projects will grow slowly and gradually. sea levels rising ever more quickly solutions are urgently needed millions could be displaced by climate change. yes. you know how many climate refugees there will be. more than 200000000. 202300 1000000 climate refugees. where will they go. refugees will come from developing countries not wealthy countries. 300000000 people where will they live will bangladesh or india take the men absolutely not.

and this is lennon and into thinking then in low lying coastal countries like bangladesh they can't do much to stop the rising water. they need when they can't build dikes or other flood protection structures like we have in germany and the netherlands there's all this for one thing they don't have the money. and then it's simply not realistic to build dikes along the entire coast so that you and i can so even if the sea level rose by just 50 centimeters that millions of people would be affected by. 9 of the world's 10 largest cities are expected to be threatened by rising sea levels by 2050 they will have to develop a long term plan for adapting to the new reality. through do you have to set a reasonable timeframe it could be 100 years but what is 100 years in the grand

scheme of things you have to have imagination like our ancestors who built cathedrals the sons of those architects and stone masons never saw the completed project that their fathers had begun the grandchildren didn't either but they had a vision for the future you have to have that vision that the future is just a brief period of time in the course of human evolution 100 or even 500 years means nothing centuries ago people used to take a long term view. your day comes that. one of these long term projects is jacques rouge design for a floating city off the pacific island of. the u.s. space seasteading institute has developed a concept for a floating city project led by political theorist pantry friedman the co-founder of pay pal is also on board the idea has a political dimension to solve or an ocean colonies would be free from state

control. but floating communities must be available to everyone not just the wealthy the oceanic project is being developed in coordination with the united nations the goal is to make floating cities available to the many coastal regions that are under threat. those solutions are urgently needed nearly half of the world's population lives within 100 kilometers of the coastline. oceanic cities could grow and adapt housing anywhere from 30210000 people. the threat of rising sea levels might be right around the corner hamburg in northern germany could also be at risk . that the homework is and it's a real danger hamburg is located just 100 kilometers from the coast.

and research indicates that the sea level in 10 years to rise with the risk of storm surges would increase significantly largely through the. news reels recalled a flood of 962 when a storm surge washed over the dikes and flood of the north sea coast about 100000 people lost their homes and hundreds of people were killed and thousands as a woman or god knows. the storm destroyed dikes along several 100 kilometers of coastline hamburg was cut off for days local residents were scarcely able to cope and the situation today maybe even more dangerous because since $962.00 the sea level here has risen by 20 centimeters. this is the port of hamburg more than 350000 people who live in this part of the

city a still threatened by storm surges a lot of new projects are under way to protect them. these new croma nod along the elbe river also serves as a flood control structure it was designed by zaha hadid architects the prominent rise is nearly 9 meters above the river. homework. pember is building a lot of new dikes and flew past and even the other the authorities are doing what they can. but i'm not sure whether we can really protect ourselves against a major storm surges in the thinking here is bizarre for example the half and city district which was built on the site of the old horton is especially vulnerable if . sea levels were to rise by several meters i doubt we could prevent the flooding they're trying to call to fix it. if water levels in the north sea continue to rise

london my also be affected. golson a top or do we many large cities are at risk and that includes london and if one all if sea levels rise by 2 meters i would assume that many parts of london would face serious problems extreme a problem that they call about 9000000 people live in london which is located on the river thames about one 3rd of those residents live in the city's central districts along the river. the thames flows into the north sea but rising and falling tines still affect river water levels in london. one 6th of the city lies in an area that's threatened by flooding rising sea levels would put more than a 1000000 people and 500000 buildings here at risk. storm surges and floods have

become more common in britain. in late 2013 and early 2014 southern england was hit by a series of severe storms heavy rainfall caused widespread flooding and power cuts and disrupted transport systems. in london the thames burst its banks and many people were forced to leave their homes. the thames barrier is designed to protect the floodplain that includes most of greater london from times and storm surges that move in from the north sea. it's one of the world's largest movable flood protection structures. the barrier consists of 10 huge steel gates that are usually submerged but can be raised into position in case of emergency. in my opinion the times barrier design

in future as one of the best examples of adaptation now those it's reaching the end of its lifetime and there have been extensive studies to extent the usability of the thames barrier there have been studies that have looked at a very wide range of scenarios up to for example a rise of 4 metres but some studies predict an increase of 5 metres by 2100 the barrier was completed in the early 1980 s. when scientists were predicting a much smaller rise in sea levels but now reality is outstripping those projections . i think none of them be protected there is a lot of investment london is a big international hub so it will be protected no matter how well we protect a place like like that so a mega city or across the magazine there is always some risk remaining in case of failure defense failure and so this is something that is considered in the design and we should be prepared for. the barrier will need to be updated. sea

levels are rising faster than anticipated. and london is at the full front of planning for an uncertain future. definitely london is setting the example for megacities but it's not exactly that for cities that can be affected by coastal flooding but there are other examples worldwide and for example the most modern invention in venice and of course different solutions will fit in different places. but few coastal regions have a huge barrier like this to protect them from storm surges if sea levels keep rising and many communities could be left to make difficult decisions. it often all of us money in some areas may simply have to be abandoned. in parts of wales for example communities are realizing they're living on borrowed time when. the

local governments don't have the money to pay for flood protection. and so people will have to start thinking about where they're going to live 3040 or 50 years from now and then floating homes like these in amsterdam could offer a refugee crisis. in the event of an emergency for example you could move house boat to hard hit areas fairly quickly to provide people with temporary accommodations. so long for now most people here who live on the water do so because they want to. when a tsunami of summer come you're so close to the water that you can actually go swimming or kayaking any time you want. a floating home is like an expansion of the city cities keep getting more densely populated and buildings keep getting taller for the food but as a living space in the hood water is still largely untapped. in affluent communities

floating homes are a lifestyle a way to bring nature into the city but they also often new ideas for adapting to climate change is going to enter the untried or you can either work against the water by building bigger barriers and so forth with about it or you can work with the water and embrace it. and that's what we're trying to do with this project. this may come to work about islands of the sea is coming toward us and we have no one to blame but ourselves highballs gonna be calling to oaks if we hadn't pump so many greenhouse gases and carbon dioxide into the atmosphere oh we wouldn't have this global warming and rising sea levels emits because so this really is a problem that we ourselves have created this.

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