The climate change It is an alarming reality where the progressive feeling is that we are getting closer and closer to a point of no return for the future of our community. Thinking about it the Danish architecture firm MAST has created City on Water.
As its name clearly suggests, it is an urban housing development project with the quality that the houses and neighborhoods would be built on the water.
In other words, the people of MAST are proposing what the city of the future could be like, floating on aquifers in a period of time not too distant precisely.
All this if the situation with climate change continues its current course where the sea level would inevitably rise between 30 and 122 centimeters to flood what we now know as mainland.
It sounds like a radical and even fatalistic idea for some, but it is interesting to explore the details of his idea to analyze the logic of his architectural proposal.
Climate change: this is the floating city of the future of MAST and City on Water
According to an article by colleagues from deezenthe risk of urban flooding in certain towns near the sea is latent with climate change, and with this in mind they have created this new housing design proposal, under the name of City on Water.
MAST develops this network of neighborhoods with houses that are formed at their foundations as a system of simple flat-pack modules built from reinforced recycled plastic. Which would form a secure, floating base for the space built above.
These modules are designed to be transported around the world with absolute ease and assembled in infinite configurations. So it could be implemented in different parts of the world.
The City on Water system was inspired by the construction of gabions, an ancient technology that uses mesh cages filled with debris to create extremely strong and low-cost foundations.
But in this case the concept would be adapted and the modular “cages” are filled with locally sourced recycled flotation material that supports the weight of any structure built on top.
So no matter how much weight is added to the surface, a few adjustments are enough to keep the base operational.
It sounds extreme, but we must not forget the case of the recent study entitled Climate Change 2022: Mitigation of Climate Change.
Where they estimate that this spiral of no return of the “end of the world” as we know it would begin in the year 2050, with radical changes in the climate from 2025.
So the MAST project doesn’t look so far-fetched and would be executed just in time to confront these aftermath of climate change.
