The required energy is obtained from methane, which is produced from CO 2 using bacteria, and by ocean thermal energy conversion. A spiral-shaped infrastructure that connects the ball and the plant. An "earth factory" at the bottom of the sea where, among other things, it is explored and resources extracted and processed and 3. An air-tight ball (mostly) just below the sea surface in which 5,000 people live and work 2. This sustainable and self-sufficient underwater city consists of three components: 1. And even more: According to Shimizu, the deep-sea provides a limitless potential for food, energy, water, CO 2 storage and natural resource. That's a lot of space that could be a potential habitat for humans. The idea behind this is the following: Oceans cover around 70 percent of the earth's surface of which, in turn, about 80 percent is made up of deep sea. The design, published in 2014, is a complete city in the deep sea which extends from the sea floor at a depth of several thousand meters up to the surface of the water. With this, the architecture not only delights restaurant visitors but also serves science.Īn underwater vision of a much larger and broader scope is the Japanese construction Ocean Spiral by Shimizu. On the other hand, 'Under' will also be used as a marine research center. It is not unique in this respect because there is an underwater restaurant called Ithaa in the Maldives, built in 2004, as well as a few others. On the one hand, it will include a restaurant. 'Under' has been designed as a mixed building. At the outer end is a huge acrylic glass panoramic window which offers a wonderful (hence "wonder") view of the underwater world. About half of the slightly elongated, streamlined structure with meter-thick concrete walls is, in fact, under water, but this is purely optical, as if it were a result of a landslide into the sea. The project name is deliberately ambiguous, because the Norwegian word "under" means both "under" as well as "wonder". In the category “small and actually built”, is currently the restaurant “Under” from Snøhetta, which will be completed in 2019 making it, strictly speaking, still under construction. Under: Restaurant meets an underwater observatory Here, it is a question of developing a completely new habitat for human life. On the other hand, behind the visions and concepts of sea cities often lies dealing with problems such as overpopulation or the loss of territory by rising sea levels due to climate change. However, most of these are a spectacular design gimmick rather than something that serves a higher purpose. Of the former, many examples have been and are being already achieved. It can range from small underwater buildings up to entire cities under the sea. Submarine architecture design comes in various scales. So it comes as no surprise that real architectural firms are becoming quite seriously concerned with buildings below sea level.
The fact that science-fiction has often anticipated or even inspired many actual developments is widely known. Countless works of science-fiction deal with the population of the latter two regions. By nature, man is a curious being and has always had those regions that particularly fascinate him because they are difficult or even impossible to reach, be the peaks of the highest mountains, the moon or the depths of the ocean.