Waterpod: a save self-sustaining ark for the far future?
How would you live when rising sealevels threaten our cities, when food supply can't be taken for granted and fossil resources become scarce? The "Waterpod" surely provides an alternative way of living.
What i find vital to this project in particular is how they incorporate a number of different environmental "issues" and answers in one prototype such as building from waste materials, self-sufficiency, off-the-grid, resource scarcity, composting, water management, agriculture and thoughtful energy consumption.
Although they obviously like Buckminster Fuller (they've got two geodesic domes on the barge) they're having a more 70's-like cabin-ecological approach, which means that their designed proto-system can be perceived as an urban island totally independent of its own environment and not considering local services to and from which it could benefit. Cabin-Ecology derives from space-ecology when scientists in the early days of space travel were researching how ecosystems on earth could be transported and/or built up in space in order to provide basic life-supporting services for colonisation of other planets (check out the most famous and failed experiment Biosphere 2).
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