This book highlights a research-based design proposal which has the purpose of relieving from lack of global food supply. Due to the current overuse of land, it suggests an extension of aquatic food production with floating devices onto the sea. These devices are called Sea Oasis because they function as an oasis as closed-loop systems and are therefore highly sustainable.
Best geographic conditions for an extension from agriculture to aquaculture by Sea Oasis match with coastal areas with serious or alarming hunger index. The low complexity, low-cost construction and the manageable size of the design is ideal for smallholders to support food security in terms of accessibility, affordability, and diversity of diet. Various configurations are described and coupled with expected revenues for potential seed-funded demonstration projects.
Cuprins
Introduction.- Brief.- Design.- Application.- Conclusion.- Appendix.
Despre autor
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Joerg Baumeister has been a practitioner, educator, researcher and consultant for Architecture and Urban Design for more than 20 years throughout Europe, Africa, the Arabian Peninsula, Asia and Australia. As university educator with passion for “his” students, he tries to fuse research, higher education and implementation in order to create feedback loops to evolve the fields of Urban Design and Architecture. He founded in 2019 the “Sea Cities” research laboratory (Sea Cities.org) at the Cities Research Institute, Griffith University to develop water-adapted cities and floating structures. He is consulting governmental institutions on the federal, state and regional level as well as NGOs and private industry leaders to apply his current research interests which comprise Sea Cities, ecological cities, affordable housing in serial building technology and design innovation through creative thinking. He is an award-winning Architect and Urban Designer and continues to be anenthusiastic speaker at international conferences. He is DAAD Ambassador and Scientist for Future.
Ioana Corina Giurgiu is Sea Cities Ph.D. researcher, currently developing a thesis on hybrid water-based urban system designs. She graduated with Honours from the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London, and as a certified Passivhaus designer and registered architect, she has worked on a number of Passivhaus and energy-efficient projects in UK and Romania. Her research focus is on decreasing the environmental footprint of the built environment via hybrid designs which create symbiotic relationships between natural and built environments.
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