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An oil rig once, the perfect home of future! | Ecofriend An oil rig once, the perfect home of future! Malaysian designers Ku Yee Kee and Hor Sue-Wern have come up with the novel idea of transforming decommissioned oil rigs into habitable structures. With conservation of the environment being the order of the day, tapping renewable sources of energy is imperative. This is the most appreciable feature of this model. The design also offers flexibility of living and working both above and under water. This can well be the solution that many of the abandoned oil rigs are looking for. Via: eVolo Enjoyed this post? Categories: Uncategorized Tags:

Clubstead Design Contents • Intro • Specifications • Engineering Details / Reports • Pretty Stuff • Questions and Answers • Credits Intro This is TSI’s first seastead design, for a hotel/resort built to withstand the waves off the coast of California, also known as a “Floatel”. The base platform draws from traditional oil platform designs such as pillar platforms and semisubmersibles, but with the addition of a a deck suspended from steel cables, inspired by Tensegrity concepts, which saves on material costs. On top, we’ve designed a 200-guest resort around the inherent geometry of the four pillars (one can imagine them being themed Air, Fire, Water, and Earth). Specifications and Key Stats • 400′x400′ (200′ span between pillars), so 160,000 ft^2 footprint. Reports These reports from Marine Innovation & Technology contain the most up to date information about the ClubStead project.Download the final ClubStead reports in a single .zip file, or as individual PDFs: Pretty Stuff Still Views on Flickr: 3D Models

Alexander L. Kielland (platform) Alexander L. Kielland was a Norwegian semi-submersible drilling rig that capsized whilst working in the Ekofisk oil field in March 1980 killing 123 people. The rig was built as a mobile drilling unit at a French shipyard, and delivered to Stavanger Drilling in July 1976. The floating drill rig was not however used for drilling purposes but served as a semi-submersible 'flotel' providing living quarters for offshore workers. By 1978 additional accommodation blocks had been added to the platform, so that up to 386 persons could be accommodated.[1] In 1980 the platform was working in the Norwegian north sea providing offshore accommodation for the production platform Edda 2/7C. Fractures on the right side of the rig In driving rain and mist, early in the evening of 27 March 1980 more than 200 men were off duty in the accommodation on Alexander L. Minutes before 18:30 those on board felt a 'sharp crack' followed by 'some kind of trembling'. 130 men were in the mess hall and the cinema.

Lady Landfill Skyscraper- eVolo | Architecture Magazine Honorable Mention 2011 Skyscraper Competition Milorad Vidojević, Jelena Pucarević, Milica Pihler Serbia The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is a pile of plastic floating in the northern part of the Pacific Ocean. The San Francisco Chronicle claims that the patch now weights more than 3.5 million tons, 80% of which is plastic waste that reaches more than thirty meters in depth. This area of the Pacific Ocean is a relatively calm region that causes the accumulation of floating garbage in big piles. Its removal will cost billions of dollars and no country claims responsibility. This proposal consists of a series of underwaterscrapers, floating islands that will be used to remove and recycle the garbage patch. Considering that the size of the floating garbage island is constantly varying, the structural organization of the skyscraper should reflect these variations. -> EVOLO SKYSCRAPERS 2 - Limited Edition Book

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