Your country is threatened by the water safe supposed to be is right on top of the water. Its not as float or house its a hybrid. Climate chios is happening its not happening in the future or possibly its already going on. Its the future of humanity. This and the sea levels will continue to rise but by how much. The earth is getting hotter the polar ice caps are melting in greenland and antarctica the ice is receding 6 times faster than expected. Sea levels around the world are rising. Geo mar the Helmholtz Center for research is located in kiel germany some of the worlds top climate experts work here including moji blood teef who studies Global Warming and its effects these are also nice puns these enormous ice caps hold an immense amount of water just imagine if they were to melt away completely good global sea levels would rise by about 60 meters this seems make up. An increase of that magnitude would radically alter the earths geography much of Northern Europe could be submerged the netherlands would vanish underwater but even a small increase would have a major impact major cities in coastal regions and further inland would be flooded. That includes london. Boston. Shanghai. Washington d. C. And mumbai. Yet sneaking out when getting that wont happen for decades or even centuries but if we dont limit Global Warming it will eventually be unstoppable and death even if we stop emitting Greenhouse Gases and hireling it will be its very late the melting of. These huge sheets of ice a Dynamic Systems if they reach a Tipping Point sea levels could rise along very quickly. This is an effect on hype and yet we know that happened at the end of the last ice age. We dont know if it could happen today. And encrease of one meter or even 3 meters is possible by the end of the century or so that i made up this missile. Sea levels are rising and eventually many coastal regions might be. Claimed by the ocean since the 19th Century Global mean sea levels have risen by about 20 centimeters in the South Pacific sea levels are rising 2. 00 to 3. 00 times faster than the global mean the island nation of tuvalu might be the 1st to be swallowed by the way. Fully one half of the netherlands lives just one meter above sea level one quarter is below sea level the country is protected by a system of polders dikes and dams but for how long the netherlands is developing innovative concepts to deal with the projected rise in sea levels. Here in amsterdam a Pilot Project has created an entire community of Floating Homes. Sasha glasses is a Founding Partner of the space and matter architectural studio and he and his family now live in one of the house boats a small building initiatives began acquiring the sites about 10 years ago theres room for about 30 homes. Houseboats here are nothing new but this project is one of a kind. Living on the water is incredible its a dream come true for me this place feels like a Vacation Home you come back from work and you feel relaxed and like youre on vacation remember. Designed the house himself. Theres plenty of living space spread out over 3 levels. You wont find this kind of comfort on a traditional houseboat. Connects the floating settlement to the mainland. Weve got connections to the power grid sewage Water Systems the internet and so on its a plug and play concept its simple and it works really well. As its like when you pull your motorhome into a camping site. You can connect to the entire infrastructure system and others for the one who have to infrastructure. With a living on the water gives you a lot of likes ability. You can expand the community quickly make it smaller you can reconfigure it again and again theres a concept known as a bunch potential. These Floating Homes generate much of their own energy with photo voltaic solar panels. Right now the site is purely residential but sasha believes that this might change one day. Our vision is not limited to house boats you could also have voting schools offices and supermarkets just about any sort of structure actually. A studio Architectural Firm is located in the town of rice mike. The company was founded by kuhn an old house hes known around the world for developing Floating Solutions to problems posed by Climate Change and of an isolation. Of water architects for me that means that you use water to make cities better so worldwide to try to take advantage of the water by building on water by taking the flexibility of the water of death created these that are more efficient and more adaptable. The dutch have been taming the water and fighting the rising and falling tied for centuries. To their lands is an artificial country we are live on the me from the sea level and what we did we built some dikes around it i mean out so now we have a dry country but of course with Climate Change more Sea Level Rise becomes keep everything drained so we now have to see whats the next next step in this surf and testing machine because the netherlands. Body of sea levels continue to rise the netherlands will be among the 1st countries that have to deal with the impact you know we have to take a lot of efforts to keep everything dry and i think whats about architects and other countries can learn from the dutch is that you never can sit still you have to. To think of the next next steps in your inner city and your country and we call this building for change and building for change makes its the you have to be flexible we have to be ready for any change in politics in technology in climate in whatever comes to us and we definitely have to make sure that we can create new cities. Towns in visions what he calls the blue city a floating metropolis that grows out of an existing city by building on the water structures or even districts could be relocated to respond to Climate Change or new social conditions. Is an optimist he believes that architects and durban planners will play an Important Role in helping communities adapt to rising sea levels so we also have to deal with nature and we have to start living with the water and thats a moment that this kind of floating architecture taking use of the water building top of the water is the best because if your city of your country is threatened by the water the safest place to be is already on top of the water. Here in amsterdams i book district people are already living in Floating Homes and apartment buildings its a model Housing Estate that features designs by a number of architects the structures are anchored to the sea floor instead of years there are docks for boats. The neighborhood is also different in another respect its connected to the mainland by jesse and the houses float on the water so how would these structures actually built. Floating foundations that can be from from concrete or from steel of opposites and with that we can make very large floating platforms and on top of that forms we can built almost anything from form parks and green to houses to towers and these are these big platforms we can connect to our cities on the water on lakes or rivers or seas and by that we can take advantage of that space. The range of possibilities seems endless the ocean flower complex in the mall even islands with 185. 00 villas and a floating golf course. The citadel apartment complex in the netherlands a design that would use the water to help cool the buildings consuming 25 Percent Less Energy than conventional structures. A plan for an entire Floating City it features selfcontained Modular Construction and has a lot of recreational space. A design for a floating mosque in the United Arab Emirates and a 25 storey hotel tower in dubai rotating on a Floating Foundation. But kuhn althouse is mainly interested in designing floating residential communities. But only floating villas will never be enough if you really want to cure the problems of space you have to also deal with in high densities and high end densities means that we also have to make floating towers so the next steps for floating cities will be the citys floating mitras towers so we need a tower for rotterdam a Floating Office tower of rice or 8 stories and we do it in seal to cause lemonade the timber and been put on the big fro the foundations you can create almost same density as. One basic idea underlies Water Studios designs and accounts for its International Success people ask me do you want to live on the water yourself while i have a family i have 3 sons and there for me i only want to live on the water if the quality of the call for it is exactly the same as all lent but today with all the technology we have a favorable form the offshore industry and form for this shipping industry we can make that forms that nobody will even noticed that you are on the water. This is the mass lance storm surge barrier in the province of self holland. And they live within the next thing that in the last big flood was in 1953 nearly 2000 people were killed the government said this cant happen again. During the storm 200 kilometers of dikes burst and water levels quickly rose to 3 meters an estimated 100000 people lost their homes after would the government ordered the construction of a system of 15 storm surge barriers dams and other structures. As is need to limit the barriers arent enough there are just a part of the system that helps us to keep our feet dry it sounds simple but its really quite complex. The country is still battling the threat of flooding dikes are being rebuilt and. Planted with vegetation beaches are being widened and sand junes raised. Rotterdam was hit hard by the 953 floods the mass lands barrier is one of the Worlds Largest moving structures and now protects about 1000000 people. The 2 large floating gates are each 240 meters long. The retaining walls a curved to withstand the force of beyond coming water. The barrier is closed only when a big storm is on the way. Rotterdam is europes largest seaport and the barrier is designed to protect it to. Them as against a this is the only barrier of its kind thats run by a computer weve worked hard to eliminate any technical complications that lead to the hours. It takes just 2 hours to close the gates this only happens when the water level hits 3 meters either very very long but they are making a lot about everyone in the netherlands contributes to flood protection through the taxes they pay even those who dont live near water in them more than a 1000000000 euros goes into the Flood ControlProgram Every year and then. The government also finances efforts to help parts of russia dam city center collect and drain excess water in an emergency. Theres lots of open space in parking garages theyre designed so that they can take on runoff water during floods. Rotterdam is particularly vulnerable to storm surges because of its coastal location and because it sits in the delta created by the rhine and mass rivers. He is an unusual design floating pavilions theyre covered with especially for oil thats 100. 00 times lighter than glass and theyre environmentally friendly cooled by surface water and heated with solar energy. The pavilions are now home to a floating cinema. Nearby a floating park hexagonal islands made of recycled plastic theyve been planted with vegetation and already seem to be drawing a crowd. For a unique city getaway you can rent this small houseboat called a vehicle boat its wrapped in 24. 00 layers of corrugated cardboard which makes it light and just about soundproof. Interior features a kitchen bathroom living room and terrace. This vehicle boat is located near the Rotterdam City Center easy access to sightseeing and restaurants. Despite all the comforts there are constant reminders that you are living on the water. We now return to amsterdam and the iceberg district with its 75 unit Housing Estate well that is from both its not a boat or a house its a hybrid before. We have the units built at a shipyard on the ice america a big lake east of amsterdam on the dow doing better here and invented that Way Construction work wouldnt be interrupted by bad weather even in winter shipyard and in his or her meds that summer when the units were finished they were shipped through the logs to us here doors afrikaans and they are. Those out of there and encouraged to steel poles that were driven 16 leaders into the lake bed. And we designed the connections so that they could bridge the difference in height both of which fill a can of a hole as hope that difference is caused by the tides but its not very big like 60 centimeters just a centimeter and the unit still millions of affleck that includes the jetties which cover the utility lines for gas water heating and so on. You put the lines in flexible tombs which are connected to the units and they can handle the rise and fall of the tide cylinders of dots out open near and over the top he has to have a Different Levels were also designed to adapt to the tides in our home long day. The units actually sit on a Floating Foundation thats composed of air tight concrete tubs. Cause we chose concrete because its heavy and displaces water based on archimedes principle are depending on its waived concrete can displace many cubic metres of water and. Its to her and the head with made concrete dumps in different sizes to balance the weight therefore built above the camera in hills far for example a bathroom is heavy so we made the concrete base and thinker on the opposite side to offset the increased weight loss and fairer we explain all this to the residence. So if someone has a heavy sofa and a piano on one side of the unit they can alter the balance by installing air filled tanks underneath the structure. Look better lock lopes about in the house. Or what else can the netherlands teach us about finding new ways to build on and with water. Again doubt you have to have the courage to try something new people in other countries could use our projects as an example you also have to be willing to experiment and up to. The netherlands also drew on an example the famous Houseboat Community in the city of sausalito california which dates back to the 950. 00 s. Like many communities built on water its legal status remained vague for years. And last but only last how many but we also have difficulties getting a mortgage and house as of danks couldnt decide whether they were dealing with a boat or a house so we had to come up with new solutions. And. In july 2019 paris recorded an all time High Temperature 42 degrees celcius. City residents are learning to live with climate extremes from high heat to heavy rain and flooding. Paris hosted the un Climate Change conference in 2015 where delegates set a goal to limit the global temperature increase to well below 2 degrees celsius in this century. Renowned architect and oceanographer Jacques Rouge has lived on this houseboat in the heart of paris for more than 4 decades. Its located near the plus della concorde and also includes his design studio. And. Yet theyre gone that the 2 Great Adventures of mankind are space and the center 11th this is the future of humanity and the. Rouge area has been working on this futuristic project for decades an ocean based Research Vessel called the sea orbiter its shaped like a seahorse. The project still only exists as a model but its plans call for a total height of 58 meters with 31 meters below the waters surface up to 22. 00 scientists could work in the vessel rouge a recess that we know less about the scene than we do about space yet they knew this for there are millions of creatures to study for example the diversity of cell a plankton is a measurable than mine we only know a fraction of it and there any baccy. The scientists rouge or recalls that aqua norse would leave in pressurized chambers so that they could take part in diving expeditions that any time. Where she big booster lemaire ive lived underwater to the x. Ray ive been involved in a dozen projects on his habitat its to bilk argument ive set World Records for a living underwater down through them and its been extraordinary job in their own davies for the. Swiss oceanographers Jacques Piqua was an early supporter of the project. It. Worked in the deepest parts of the year at 11000 meters. I can always encouraged me in my research on underwater settlements and so he and i decided to develop a research lab that would be like the International Space station. It could drift with the ocean currents. And provide a base for scientists like a beehive and to pick up the worker bees would fly out and collect Scientific Data on the Marine Environment. Since he was inspired by the work of 2 of his countryman van and jacques eve cousteau. In 1962 cousteau spent a week in his underwater Research Facility conch shells. He hoped it would be the dawn of a new age of marine exploration. In the 1970 s. Rouge