Comments on: LILYPAD: Floating City for Climate Change Refugees

By: baoooab

baoooab — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 10:01:20 +0000

how do we get a car on this island

By: RevGadget

RevGadget — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 03:00:01 +0000

Wow…. How is the food going to get there and where is it going to come from? Room service? The problem with ideas like this, is that all the refugees from global climate change are the third world peoples from low lying areas, such as Bangladesh. None of them would have the money to move onto one of these things.

By: picolee

picolee — Sat, 23 May 2009 16:46:46 +0000

hmmm …. this one came first

but all credit to pixelab who have done an astounding job on the copy!!

By: Izaul V.

Izaul V. — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 16:01:46 +0000

I have more ideas about this project if you want know or you need help please let me know . This my E=mail. elizeous87@gmail.com i liked your idea is nice..

By: arbiforumnow

arbiforumnow — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 21:11:30 +0000

Beautiful! I’m imagining however that it will be grossly populated by exiled infamous corp execs on the run from abandoned land-bound laborers and stakeholders.

By: confiture

confiture — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 13:46:05 +0000

This project is one of the best projects I had ever seen concerning the futur. This architect has got very good ideas for a better world for Today.

By: Corina61

Corina61 — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 16:40:26 +0000

This is so amazing. If you need someone to try it ou and live on it to try it out, sign me up. I’ll be a ginnea pig.

By: Miki

Miki — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 23:06:46 +0000

When this project goes forward, whenever there is a need of capable designers for product design and ergonomics, I would love to dedicate my life to a project like this. Please let me know. I can be easily contacted via inhabitat.

By: graupelschauer

graupelschauer — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 00:31:09 +0000

I can only support frances’comment. While it can certainly be fun for the designer to indulge in Modernist escapism, I can see no benefit for the wider community in this design. If the Great Ideas about zero emission are any good then it would certainly be commendable to think about ways to make them available to an as large number of people as possible. However it seems to fall to Dubai billionaires to indulge in zero-emission living – as if they were interested. And unfortunately Dubai billionaires do not constitute a sufficient percantage of the world’s population to make an impact against global warming. And even for them, why float about in the sea? Just for fun of course. If you can make urban life independent of agricultural land resources, you would not have a shortage of space on land. And yes so much more, what about global warming causing the seas to atrophy, how are the inhabitants going to cope with cyanide-generating algae all around them. It can make one angry to witness these proposals implying that we would just be able to withdraw from the problems.

By: marie

marie — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 17:12:12 +0000

Great I love it and hope to see the realisation of what to me seems clean and eco-friendly. Good for the rich, who by buying a nice place on that clean lilypad will be able to enjoy a live without pollution, take the helico to go to work and come back home their clean-lungs kids and wife. It is beautiful and also a wonderful project but unfortunatly their is a price for everything, and hard work usually pays off, you think governement will give the guy that invent it the money he deserved and then put refugees on it. All this prove that we are still extremelly hurt by the way the world is turning but also that their is still discrimination all over the world. People are ready for it but not the government who wants to put big time in their pockets, have fun with the lilypad, I will not be here but at least I can dream about it, it looks like heaven……M

By: sarah5121

sarah5121 — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 18:42:40 +0000

This is amazing. If someone built this it would definitely be enough to make me wish I was a refugee. Of course the real things never look as good as the blue print pictures. =)

By: lazaros

lazaros — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 21:19:59 +0000

to me is a very uptodate wonderful project.I’d say it’s inspired by GOD.The architect may be a PROFET.
same as NOAh.The way the world is going.nukes,climate change,anger,greed,fuel price,food price,biofuels,Powers,emerging powers,Religions,Lobies,NOT Trust,selfishnest,imorality.I’ve nearly lost faith in people.FLOATING CIYTES Hopefuly will save life in this planet.LIKE NOAH!!

By: hannes

hannes — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 08:49:08 +0000

Combine this idea with those of the late great Wolf Hilbertz and his Sea-cretion technic and you
can build this for pennies with chickenwire and a few solar panels, don’t need no billion dollar sponsor.

By: trudy

trudy — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 23:13:55 +0000

What about hurricanes?

Is there an area on it to grow enough food to support the population?

By: Bruce AIA

Bruce AIA — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 17:00:54 +0000

All things are new again. Upon seeing the Lilypad I was taken back in time to our own original design for a floating city. In 1971 as part of a 4th year architecture design team at Cal Poly, SLO, CA we were asked to design a vacation resort of the future. A quote by the philosopher Seneca, \”Beyond all things is the sea\” inspired us to create a floating \”Sea City\”. A six sided mother ship was the central core of each City and was surrounded and attached to six sided housing modules. The City could grow or shrink as the housing units would move from area to area to always be in the best climate for a vacation. The core was connected to land with an underwater umbilical cord for required services. The small recreational boats were contained within a dock at sea level, and the entire City could be raised to buffer against rough seas. We had even envisioned that libraries would not be needed on board, since all books would be available on hand held computer screens. 37 years later some things have happened, but the technology to make this Sea City work is still a long way off. It reminds me of architect Paolo Soleri\’s design to stick a city in almost anything, a dam, or a bridge. It is much easier to sketch and verbalize than to actually build. But a vision for the future is what gives life promise. B