The coastal network

Abstract

A "seastead" is a permanent settlement where people can live and work, designed and built for functioning on the sea. This new settlement type can help mediate several climate crisis issues such as rising sea levels. This project focuses on a three-module seastead network that comprises city hubs, resource hubs, and mobile community units, or MCU's. City Hubs and Resource Hubs will be anchored to their coastal locations with the ability to move inland as the coastlines change. The MCU's will be able to travel between the larger modules. These traveling modules will then be able to "click-in" to the anchored modules to gather and distribute resources, attend to specialized services, or exchange with the local cultures. Through research and planning, seasteads have the potential to radically change the future and the next generation of architecture. Even though it is impossible to completely reverse climate change, it is certainly time to think about how to adapt and slow down the curve. City Hubs, Resource Hubs, and MCU's will all work together to maintain an ocean network that will function as a self-sustaining, closed loop. Energy production, waste elimination, and food systems will be essential to making this network function properly. In order to preserve cultures and atmospheres of our great coastal cities, these city hubs will focus on capturing the essence of these coastal cities projected to be underwater.