Category: Novel Floating Ideas
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Multi-Purpose Floating Structures
While Singapore may be looking to create space in the sky or underground, certain space is best created on the sea. Surrounded by 193 km of coastlines and dotted with over 60 islands, Singapore offers ample sea space for marine and storage facilities that require daily access to ships and…
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Floating Cities in Holland
00:21 – it’s a new way of creating a city it’s a 00:25 – it’s a dynamic city it’s not a static 00:27 – city a floating organization is a very 00:35 – good way to have flexible and climate 00:36 – robust urbanization in these vulnerable 00:38 – areas…
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Floating Ferry Terminal, Kenyir Lake, Terengganu, Malaysia
Located in the heart of Terengganu and spanning over 260sq km, Tasik Kenyir is the largest man-made lake in South East Asia. Once complete, the Cornerstone floating ferry terminal will become the gateway to exploring this vast lake and the 340 islands it contains. With a footprint of over 5,000sq…
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In land-scarce Singapore, new spaces for homes on the sea and in the air, possibly
A floating island and apartments perched over roads and old buildings are just some of the ideas for how Singapore could overcome its land shortage, as the show Land Unlimited discovers.
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Snøhetta’s “Under” Is Europe’s First Underwater Restaurant
Snøhetta, the architecture firm behind the 1989 library of Alexandria, Egypt, the Norwegian National Opera in Oslo, Norway, and the expansion of San Francisco’s MoMA, has completed Europe’s first underwater restaurant in Lindesnes, Norway. Under is a semi-submerged restaurant situated at the Southernmost point of the Norwegian coastline. This unique…
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Floating the idea of cities and economic zones at sea
What are the pros and cons of this alternative to traditional settlement? Urbanisation is often thought of as a land-based process. Increasingly, however, humans are venturing to the oceans, not just for travel and transport – but for settlement. This is not as new as one might imagine. Maritime peoples…
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Styrofoam Lightweight Floating Pontoons – STYRO
EPS STYROFOAM is popularly known as one of the best materials to manufacture buoys, pontoons, and Floating Docks as it has excellent physical properties. Moreover, it is light in weight and has good buoyancy and resilience properties. Learn more: https://www.styrouae.com/insulation-and-construction/styro-eps-for-pontoon-and-buoy/
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Mega floating solar panel system to be ready in 2019
S’pore’s largest sea-based system will be in north, producing 6,388 MWh of energy yearly. A floating solar panel system roughly the size of five football fields will soon come up near Singapore’s northern shores, in the Strait of Johor. Developed by sustainable energy provider Sunseap Group, it is Singapore’s largest…
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The Voices of Marine – Sept 2018
The Voice of Marine – September 2018 Edition (The Marine Professional)
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Contemporary Floating Home on the Columbia River
BARRAMUNDI Asia Pte Ltd, a Singaporean registered aquaculture company is investing a total of $300 million to open up a sea bass farm in Brunei, with a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Fisheries Department signed to mobilise this venture. Present at the signing was the Minister of Primary Resources…