Discover the ‘Sea Tree’ – Floating Wildlife Haven
In our previous posts we have introduced some of the world’s most bizarre and futuristic structures, which includes the ‘Apeiron Island Hotel’ in Dubai, the ‘Habitat 67’ in Montreal, Canada and the ‘Dancing Creating’ in Prague to name but a 3. But what we are going to discover in this post is one thing much more exciting and extraordinary. Can you think about? Designing buildings for birds, plants and fish… this truly opens up a new realm of architecture!
Koen Olthuis, an architect of Dutch firm Waterstudio.NL that specializes in constructing in wet locations, has developed a water-based floating park – a secure haven for wildlife that is positive to bring positive green effects to urban environments.
Created for use in cities with big waterways, such is New York, Tokyo or London, the Sea Tree is a multi-tiered structure comprising of layered green habitats that supply useful living grounds for birds, bees, bats and other modest animals and even for artificial coral reefs, if the climate makes it possible for for it. Given adequate time to grow, the Sea Tree will sooner or later resemble a sort of hanging garden, both above and beneath water, with branches and vines hanging from the diverse levels.
Mr. Olthuis came up with the idea simply because it is so difficult to add added park zones to a city on land. And on the other hand, open spaces, like rivers, lakes, seas and harbors should instead be utilized. So, he proposes utilizing offshore technologies related to oil rigs to construct the Sea Trees and he has even recommended that oil companies donate them to cities to show ‘their concern for a far better city atmosphere.’
You see, Olthuis approaches aquatic architecture from a different corner unlike other architects. Typically, when people want to build some sort of floating city, manmade island, or flashy submerged structure, it is due to the fact they want to attract tourists and according to the Dutch architect this kind of thinking leads to utterly absurd designs, like an ice hotel in the middle of the desert.
Getting from the Netherlands, Olthuis takes the ‘ocean’ quite seriously, (as it is slowly swallowing the complete country), making floating structures because he need to and because they are extremely practical, easy and functional. He imagines whole cities being built in water and in The Hague’s hinterland this vision will soon grow to be a reality. ‘Floating is not dogma,’ Olthuis says. ‘We only use it exactly where it tends to make sense economically and practically.’ ‘Save the globe, built on water,’ this is Koen Olthuis’ core business in a nutshell.
Olthuis and his crew have been developing a quantity of floating buildings and from the water villa in the Netherlands down to the floating city in Dubai, his projects have attracted and continue to attract attention worldwide. A BBC journalist was possibly appropriate in calling Koen Olthuis the “Floating Dutchman”.
Waterstudio claims the Sea Tree will be totally realized just inside two years and that an undisclosed client has currently expressed a keen interest!
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