Pack your bags, we're moving to cities built on water. "By the year 2050 about 70% of the world's population of 10 billion people will be living in cities, according to the United Nations."
Jason Pomeroy, the founder of the architecture firm Pomeroy Studio believes that climate change and rising sea levels will lead humans to build on water.
"Not only will waterborne communities solve problems of inner-city densification and be energy efficient, Pomeroy believes they could be flood, earthquake and weather proof."
Living on water is not a new idea. Italy and Thailand have been living on water for a very long time. Pomeroy suggests "creating floating communities of self-contained futuristic-looking pods, which create their own energy."
The Netherlands has already begun experimenting with floating communities and "the Ijburg neighborhood of Amsterdam is home to a community of 75 multistory "houseboats"-that look nothing like boats-supported by buoyant underwater concrete tubs."
Water might be the next place we're going to build homes and buildings. Gather your floating devices and inflatable pool floaties because the next stop is the water.
CNN Article Living On Water: Are Waterborne Cities More Resistant To Climate Change: http://www.cnn.com/2016/07/20/asia/water-cities-jason-pomeroy/index.html
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