How Houses Could Float
A new industry of floating infrastructure is emerging to help adapt to rising sea levels. There are two distinct approaches that are being put forth as possible solutions: retrofitting homes to be amphibious and building floating cities.
Amphibious homes can preserve the accessibility of the house and maintain the congenial front porch culture in places like Louisiana, said Elizabeth English, founder and director of The Buoyant Foundation Project.
English's design places a steel frame beneath a house, and then below that, in the crawl space, buoyancy elements. Her team then recommends adding elements to prevent lateral movement so the home will not float away while on the surface of floodwaters.She estimated that a contractor could do such a retrofit for about $20 to $30 per square foot, but cautioned the Federal Emergency Management Agency currently discourages this type of building practice.
Modern floating cities are the brainchild of architect Bjarke Ingels. He told CNBC he hopes his Oceanix City, which is currently slated to be built in the harbor near Busan, South Korea, will be "a city that is the most resilient city you can imagine, but at the same time, the most enjoyable city that you can imagine."
"We really hope that it will be a successful project and we would like to replicate it in other parts of the world," Maimunah Mohd Sharif, executive director of the United Nations Human Settlements Programme, told CNBC of the Oceanix development. She said the world must look more into adaptation and hopes that the project can help mitigate or even solve the problem of sea-level rise.
Would you live in a floating city or retrofit your home so it floats during floods? Watch the video above to learn more about what life could be like in these innovative climate change adaptations.
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How Houses Could Float
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I just like to point out that Florida has had 3 once in a hundred year hurricanes in my lifetime and I'm only 30. That means on a local scale we're dealing with once A hundred Year situations every decade. So they really should call it once every 10 years not once every 100.
Are the 1 in 100 year storms poorly named? (yes) Are the actual historical trends going back centuries known? (almost never) We are using insufficient data and making poor extrapolations from it. Depending where you start the graph, they can show increasing and decreasing trends with the same data, just different starting points. The truth is far more complex than it is made out to be.
@@c567591 yes you're right they're poorly named. However we've seen an almost continuous increase in the severity of storms and the number of storms being produced every single year for at least the last three soon to be for decades. That means that our records we have now from recent data points so that the scale is dramatically off on our estimates are wrong. We need to use and adjust the scale based on modern data. they haven't done that yet.
It sounds better on the news to say once every 100 years
Once in a hundred sounds scary tho. $
The scales are off, because of global warming. The earth is getting hotter kzhead.info/sun/mq6tf6eLoJOnm4k/bejne.html and that causes more extreme weather patterns. Only fossile fuel industry propaganda says it's something else, but they're false. The once in x amount of time events are used by policy makers to prepare for disaster. Governments are simply not prepared for those larger disasters to happen as often as they're going to be. Is that scary? Yes. But it's more scary to deny it and make things worse.
RED FLAG: when you CEO relies in name dropping Tesla, who manufactures cars, to validate their company.
You failed to explain how services like gas, water, sewer, and electricity will work in this setup? Are they disconnected when the house floats? If so, how does that work? Or is there some sort of flexible pipe that let's me flush my toilet when the house is floating?
Connections to the land are easily done with flexible pipes. Sewerage normally goes through a grinder (so all waste is broken down into small pieces that won't block conduit down the line) and into an onboard tank. From there it is pumped out into a flexible pressure conduit (with back flow stop).
maybe it will be like the Burj Khalifa situation, there's no sewer line, just a large septic tank that need to be cleared manually by a tanker truck once it's full (and sent to the treatment plant). Sink & overflow will simply drain to the river I guess, maybe there's solid waste collection grill to collect plastic waste, for weekly collection by garbage truck. This will be better than what a cruise ship do at sea, they simply purge septic refuse into the ocean for the fishes, nom nom poop.
@Reptilian Network News So, it's a feature not a bug? Basic info on how to float a house should include obvious things that go along with MOVING a house. That isn't uber technical. It is very basic.
who knew Kevin Constner's Waterworld was ahead of it's time😀
Very true! Also Armageddon with the DART mission lol
If they make modular islands, imo they should be more like super blocks with mixed use development to reduce the need to commute between them instead of doing single purpose zoning.
Finally 8 minutes in I get to something that doesn't fill me with foaming rage. The floating foundation concept for housing in Louisiana is actually brilliant and a version of it should be implemented just about everywhere. Modifying existing infrastructures also always an easier sell.
It is a interesting concept. We need a full scale test to see how it performs and what drawbacks it will have. Then it can be properly evaluated.
It’s interesting but like what we saw in NJ/NY the question is whether it makes sense to add these retrofits/lifts vs rebuilding a poor quality house. Anyone who has renovated a poorly built house and noticed the issues with code compliance will know that touching those is a can of worms that may be more expensive than a fresh builder grade house.
@@CrunchyBaguette you're right but that's still no reason to do tests and a few renovations full scale to see how this project works. And based on what I'm seeing it should be come part of the standard building code in areas that can flood especially Louisiana.
I’m with you, this focus on building new cities and abandoning current ones is infuriating in how boneheaded, wasteful, and heartless it is.
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*Water World,* *Here we come!*
Floating infrastructure is by far the coolest, but that also means the most expensive maintenance. I think we should go with earthships.
We already have floating cities, they are called cruise ships. Instead of dismantling those giant ones, just tie three of them together, and retrofit them: one for lodging, one for living, and one for research, and you got a floating city. This design is modular just like the one discussed in 2:17. I just hope they are really tighten down, and don't crash in land during one of those 1000 years events.
Cruise ships stay operational because people pay millions per trip. They are incredibly expensive to operate in general.
@@saynotop2w And you think these floating houses are going to be affordable to the common person?
@@saynotop2w Not only to operate but to build in the first place. Last time I checked, the cheapest was several hundreds million dollars and many cost $1 billion to build. Still, I like the cruise ship idea and it would be great if their cost could somehow be brought down.
I like the idea but what I think the biggest issue is that is not addressed is utilities. How are the gas and water lines going to move up and down? That's a big thing that's not addressed in this video.
Why would they have gas lines?
Drinking water and gas is plausible with flexible pipe. The bigger issue is the toilet waste.
Water distillation stations that are likely part of the islands design.
@@sn5301679 Sewerage is again done with flexible pipes. On board all waste water is passed through a grinder that breaks down all waste into small pieces that won't block the conduits down the line. Then there's a waste water tank and a pump with a backflow stop that pushes the waste water ashore (persleiding = pressure conduit).
Interesting video. I am wondering about tsunamis. Will the floating cities float above the waves? I am thinking of the December 26, 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami and March 11, 2011 Japan tsunami. If they were further out to sea they would mitigate some of those issues. The closer to the shore the more risk for tsunamis. It would be interesting to see both a compute model and a physical tank model of a “floating city” next to a shore and how they would handle a large wave. Interesting new industry to watch as well as the retrofitting of houses to float in place.
You ever heard of Atlantis?
Yes they can be tsunami proof, although the architectural requirements would be much more intensive
No you cant surf a tsunami. Tsunami would destroy this city but its better than nothing. When the water retracts or the tsunami warning blows better move to high ground like our ancestors did.
Busan has sea walls located to where they would reduce the tsunami waves power in the bay area where these modular islands will be built
Only if they are positioned in a way that the building follow the receding tide out to see before the Tsunami gathers momentum. The structures won't be very comfortable to live on if they are far out at sea, as it will be no different than a cruise ship I imagine.
There are examples of amphibious buildings. Riverboat casinos in the Mississippi River around Vicksburg sit in the river on the bottom in low water and they float held in place by chains in high water.
BROAD Group manufactures something they call a B-Core slab. It's a steel panel with very thin steel cylinders inside it. It is used in skycrapers etc. due to its strength whilst using a lot less steel. Each B-core slab contains a lot of air so it can float. Their product brochure shows floating cities. Worth checking out.
Looking at 0:22 I now fear this project will fail because project team members failed to locate Busan properly on a map…
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I love it!!! Innovation at it's purest.
I'm not buying any of this. This is not affordable for all economic levels. What economic advantage or businesses that could be sustained on these platforms? How do you transport the working class into the city with all kind of weather events? This is a 1% utopia that provides no benefits to the general public.
the first phones were for the rich only, then by scaling up it became affordable to a lot of people
Yeah the floating city concept feels new with murderous rage. But the amphibious foundation are floating foundation project from later in the video that's something I can get behind that has some legitimate good simple engineering behind it. And it's theoretically cheap enough of a retrofit to become standardized code for a new construction and a required code retrofit for old construction or it can be applied. Namely places like Louisiana and Florida that are guaranteed to flood in warm weather.
@@moneyobsessed are we just supposed to rebuild all our coastal cities from scratch? talk about pollution
Yeah it’s probably really expensive. There are diagrams of ocean farms growing shellfish and seaweed below and tidal electric generators. People could work in those industries to help pay for the place. It’s hard to see those covering the expense though.
You know as a Floridian I could think of only one theoretical upside to a floating city. And that is if the platform can be towed it can be moved out of the way of major storms. Granted if given the option I just head up River in a houseboat but I'm a sensible person not trying to build a 100 trillion dollar problem to fix a billion dollar one.
Do you have a clue how hard it is to move a half million ton floating structure. It's doable but it takes weeks just to safely maneuver a few hundred miles. It's physically impossible for a half dozen of the worlds most powerful tugs to move such massive structures inside of a few days.
@@ph11p3540 yes I do understand how impossibly hard moving in entire floating city would be. I think the entire floating city concept is an incredibly stupid egotistical elitist waste of money. if you make it too big to move it all you're doing is creating debris that can be thrown around by a storm surge except this time it the size of a city block. Practically speaking you would need a nuclear powered engine and some kind of variable thrust guided system in an advanced computer system just to be able to control it and the number of places you would be able to park the floating structure itself is extremely limited. But if they can't move these individual building structures they're talking about all they're doing is creating a minimum several hundred ton floating battery ram to crush entire city blocks during a storm surge.
The interesting part will be the utilities and the foundation with how it deals with erosion
What is to protect these islands from storm surge, strong winds, heavy downpours, and simply big waves
This might be plausible for places like the Netherlands and Singapore who are highly dense and rising sea levels are affecting them but at that point land reclamation is just a much better choice.
Yes until its not economic viable. we are getting closer to where sand is much more valuable resources than to make land in the sea.
@@gamh03 isn't makin land in the sea what sand will be used for?
Love it so much there is a lot of material roof membrain tpo can be welded or make new bags that can be inflate under any house traila any city can be flowting high as a big wave allways playin with calm water
Wouldn’t a strong hurricane completely destroy a floating house lol or sweep it away into the ocean or something
There goes the sunlight for all the plants and creatures underneath those floating structures.
This help reduce transportation affect on agriculture so no hunger or drought or out of season rhythm of season..because the train and truck hurt agriculture too much could threaten from the potential of disruption
I actually kind of find this very ironic you see traditionally before air conditioning houses in FLorida were built on high ground and where they couldn't be built on a high ground they were built on stilt foundations so that even if the entire area flooded it would have to get to 220 ft of water to get into your house. So the principal the floating foundation house actually makes a lot of sense and is good engineering it's just hilarious because we already had a solution to the problem and up until like the 1940s.
Post WWII housing was a horrible idea, and we never should’ve done it. They literally went away from 10,000 years of trial and error and are blaming Millennials for wanting to do a bunch of ctrl + Z.
In the Florida keys I saw a lot of houses that consisted of a concrete pad with steel posts that supported a house. The house is accessed by a steel spiral staircase, the car is parked underneath on the concrete pad. The steel posts are long enough to be higher than hurricane swell is ever likely to be. It's not complicated and appears to work well.
great idea and COMMON sense.
Aztecs did it, chinampas. Worth looking at the example for food growing.
Yes. Not by choice though 😅
Um, what about sewer, water supply, and most other utilities buried underground that tie into the house? You didn’t mention any of that stuff?
Probably have to use tidal electric power generation, composting toilet systems and water desalination. These all exist though are rare so many issues would have to be worked out at expense. Though I think this projects purpose is to work out all the issues to build floating cities.
@@karld1791 you are right but I was referring to the idea of retrofitting existing houses to make them able to float.
We'll, It is a useful, realistic solution and innovation for areas suffering the damage of climate change. As far as I know, this model helps houses stay away from the flood, houses will be higher as the sea level rises, thus protecting people's possessions
Much more cost effective to just move to high ground. We don't need the 'Waterworld' option.
I could see at least a few of those towns in international waters where people can experiment with different governance systems that are not based on coercion.
Except no, international waters are often extremely deep & the costs would be astronomical that it would only realistically become havens for the rich to do & get away with things they'd likely be unable to within a governed nation.
@@tuanx that part of the architecture was a joke lol
@@tuanx They've already gotten away with a lot shady stuff already. Being in International waters won't male a difference except for more competitive governance by honest market participants.
How do you deal with waves? I have a possible Category 4 heading towards me on the Florida West Coast - would something like this survive?
if you want natural ones then mangroves, and if its not possible you can build a post or tetrapods that somewhat make the waves weak
As an architect in nyc..great concept but it has limitations and may not be all that economically feasible.
Pro tip SK, there's a whole Korea's worth of undeveloped land on your 12 o'clock.
Most intelligent words I’ve heard
House boats have been known for years. What's new in this innovation ? Does this mean that sewage is directly injected into the water; it will become an open sewer around the settlement.
It's like the prequel to Water World
How come as sea levels rose...the inhabitants of Earth didn't all go to the Himalayas? Did they forget where the Himalayas were? In the future they don't have access to Google maps? They have to rely on a girl's tattooed back?
@@drmodestoesq maybe some escaped to the outer space , ie Mars for all we know, and those the couples that's on top of the Everest didn't get the memo
It's gotta withstand rising sea level, flood, hurricanes, and zombie apocalypse since it's near Busan.
Cnbc needs to talk about Ecosia they are a search engine that plants trees
I'm Korean and didn't know this grand planning was going in action rn 😳
If a billionaire invests in something like this, it will be as a tax dodge.
Taxation is extortion!
You can make concrete structures float. We have successfully built concrete boats, and floating oil platforms from concrete. This big issue is marine concrete construction is very expensive, high maintenance and short lived compared to their land based structures. Such structures only make sense for residential construction when land prices are hyper expensive and everyone is working in high paying high end jobs. These are pipe dream projects much like Palm and World Islands in Dubai.
Why is the audio on most CNBC video so low
So basically the first 10 seconds of this video are they all companies going FYGM is a tune of 84 billion dollars in flood damage a year.
I like the idea of "floating homes" along existing coastal areas, but something tells me there could be problems with extending coastal cities into waveless areas such as bays, harbors, deltas, wetlands, marshes, and rivers. To disrupt existing waterways by filling them up with more human habitations does not seem to me a likely beneficial endeavor. Our waterways are already experiencing irreversible destruction. What has happened to the UN recognition of population proliferation as an unhealthy imbalance to earth's resources, organisms, and plant life? I am suspect that there is no mention of sewage treatment or management in this video. Adding nitrogen to the oceans and especially to largely stagnant water collections has deleterious effects, such as blue algae. Nevertheless, I share the excitement about scientifically exploring all these possibilities.
Amazing green lands green roof green wals for the middle hose all the houses sealed couted
So when the floating house retrofits start to float in a flooding situation, are the plumbing, electrical, gas designed to break off? Still better than losing your entire house, I guess.
3 acres for 3,000 people? That seems kind of small
Oh wow
This floating city concept reminds me of Volume 3 episode 1 of Love, Death and Robots. Human still end up killing themselves in floating cities.
Angrier and angrier and angrier as the flooding lifted me higher and higher and higher
So we can more directly pollute the ocean right?
Back to the Future Part II said we'd have hoverboards by 2015. It's 2022, we still don't.
But they did invent a Star Wars style speeder.
Hell, we barely even have consistent electricity anymore
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Hey guess what's technically wetlands, the district of Columbia AKA DC the Capitol building of the United States. Miami Florida is a man-made Sandbar built into wetlands. Disney World in Orlando Florida are built on wetlands. The entire freaking state of Louisiana. Most of New Jersey and Long Island were originally wetlands. And several parts of what is now in New York City. Oh also St Petersburg Russia and Moscow are all built on wetlands and technically part of London is also wetlands.
I can see this happening
Buy a million dollar condo that depreciates like a boat. Great idea.
Seems this woman is good at work. How do I get in contact with her
Incredible how floating cities are the topic of conversation when governments can’t even manage money properly for their citizens. 💀 One step at a time, guys. 😂
Have you ever heard the phrase "Platforms are stronger than governments "??? It's literally built on a platform 😭😭😭😭😭
Yeah I'm more concerned about our failed and failing infrastructure and electric grid than I am building a play pen for wealthy people that want to have a floating house.
This won't deal with storm surges. Storm gates need to be built for all coastal port cities.
Having a bunch of these in the chanel and building rapid transit across it like a bridge, excites me.
no one is talking about water and sewer - those pipes do not move well at all and the angel the pipes are at is extremely critical
Yall can do high floating concrete high wys to floating citys high
Those city islands sound good in nature but it will be little cities for the rich.
This looks better than that "The Line" city 😆
I am in would love it
will cities that float survive oceanic storms with those big waves?
No, it won't and the weather in the future will be unpredictable. The only way this work is that you build the city in a lake. When the lake expand the city will float on the lake instead of being sunk into the ground. The idea of putting a city at the atlantic ocean is stupid but you can do it at an inland ocean. The idea of putting the city near the sea shore is stupid while we need logistics we should try to improve railroads by building it on a bridge. Rome managed to transport water but we can't figure out how to build a rail on a bridge. As the city expand people will start to settle at the land and the center of the city is a lifeboat. If a disaster would occur only half of the citizens will die.
It need wave breaker fence that break large wave and generate electricity
The wizard of Oz much? Be in California and get hit with a storm and wake up in Australia lmaoooo
It can move if bad weather or war
What we should do instead is make floating gardens like the mayans did non water waste Farming. And have fishes in there. chinampa, also called floating garden, small, stationary, artificial island built on a freshwater lake for agricultural purposes. Chinampan was the ancient name for the southwestern region of the Valley of Mexico, the region of Xochimilco, and it was there that the technique was-and is still-most widely used.
Chinampas are amazing!
I like it
3,000 people on four acres of space hell no. I've been much rather be crushed by a tidal wave. Are drowned by the rising sea levels that have to live with that many freaking people crammed into a 4 acre sardine can. I grew up in a 4 acre private lot in a small town in Baldwin it's not that big.
then we pollute the water that we also use to drink? 🤔
Sad that the human race is failing to solve climate change. And that ideas and plan like this are needed
No.
Just tell us already go watch water world and thats basically what where doing living on boats like not difficult to say. Also thirsty concrete and cement are a thing it lets water run through it not over it so it lets groundwater recharge not just deplete and dry up to nothing.
Water world
I laughed so hard when she said they jack the house up a little and the house floats away
How will these houses manage if there is tsunami?
"Busan, South Korea", proceeds to show a spot close to Hong Kong instead.
Waterworld in the house! 😂👏🏾👍🏾
I think one person already did this, somewhere in europe.
"You can't stop the rising sea" as someone from the Netherlands I would disagree with this statement, for now, but it was only after the trauma of the 'Watersnoodramp' of 1953 we understood the need to invest in coastal protection. You would think the US would have responded the same way after Katrina, but your stagnant politics seem to have doomed you to fail
If my future baby born in the Flotting City. What citizenship will obtain?
If this is a UN project and costs over $100B how much of that is out of the UK budget?
Is it not easier to move inlands instead? How is plumbing supposed to work in a house that rises and sinks with the ocean? Will all movable parts not be clogged by mussels. I'm not an engineer so maybe these ar all easy to fix...
It’d probably have use composting toilets and ocean farms of mussels , clams and oysters below to filter water effluent. I’ve seen some diagrams with ocean farms and tidal electric generators below and solar desalination above so it isn’t tightly connected to the shore.
I think it’s okay to let Florida sink. Sometimes nature knows best.
If Florida Man is any indication, maybe you're right.
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Wow, i'm amazed at how out of options we are for mitigating climate change. Lets just go "waterworld", here we go.
Don't know if this will really work or happen.
Why not?
Wat a good idea for us to dirty the ocean that we’ve already polluted
Sea Wave formation
Just like flying cars, im confused. Isn’t a floating house a boat? Just like a flying car is a plane?
Too many goals trying to be achieved with this project. Ways too many people with their fingers in the pie, just let the chef cook the pie and everyone else get their fingers OUT! Unfortunately, the project will fail because of that. I like this idea because I like engineering, construction and architecture especially. Hopefully someone in the future will take this idea and understand the concept of Minimal Product Viability and stop trying to be all things for all people.
I think their project is going to fail because it's built on the same greed that required floating architecture to be built in the first place. It will collapse like an expensive house of cards or the people who built it and live on it will face the consequences of screwing everyone else over.
Also the myth of the genius inventor or the lead designer of a project being with omnipotent God who can see every single solitary aspect of how it's supposed to be designed and directed. It has probably resulted in more failed projects and then just about anything else.
No way that these cities won't be a have and have not scenario. There absolutely will be rich ones and poor ones.
We already have garbage island’s out there tho.