No matter how you cut it, rising sea levels and extreme weather events pose a very serious threat to humanity. The earliest victims will, of course, include those who dwell along the coast. In time, at the aggressive rate climate change is progressing right now, we could all be knee-deep in saltwater. Which is precisely why architecture firm Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) has officially been given the green light to start building its proposed Oceanix floating city.
First unveiled at the United Nation’s New York headquarters during a roundtable back in 2019, the concept accommodates approximately 10,000 people. Consisting of buoyant hexagonal islands clustered together in groups of six to form self-sustaining villages spanning 12-hectare each, soon enough, you’ll be able to find the artificial archipelago around Busan, South Korea. And as ambitious as this may sound, multiple (optimistic) reports have noted it could be completed by 2025.
“It just happened that Busan is the best place for us to deploy this prototype,” says Itai Madamombe, Co-Founder of Oceanix.
“But this is something that we hope will be useful to all coastal cities around the world, and all coastal communities who are facing the challenge of sea-level rise.”
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