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Floating Infrastructure Large Scale Public Spaces on Water

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The strain and pressure on the global city infrastructure can be efficiently relieved by allowing this infrastructure to step “onto” the water and thus break this ever existing barrier. Apart from the fact that by doing so we manage to create new and attractive public space in the environment which is usually scarcely utilized, floating infrastructure also provides extremely high resilience while minimizing the environmental impact. Important thing to keep in mind is that these spaces of water often exist in the very heart of our cities where availability of building sites tends to be extremely limited. We have provided practical demonstration on how large public spaces can successfully exist on water and how floating architecture has a potential to deliver new realities by physically mirroring the city on this recently empty water space. Our experience and projects successfully delivered to date remove any doubt that large floating infrastructure projects such as floating hotels, floating hospitals, floating sports activity centre with Olympic size swimming pool, floating museum, floating climbing centre, floating bars and restaurants and many others can successfully exist in the unpopulated environment of bodies of water that meet the city shores. Apart from this fact, floating architecture is able to deliver solutions that provide high resilience while minimising the environmental impact.

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  • Floating architecture
  • Floating infrastructure
  • Public spaces on water
  • Resilient city infrastructure

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  1. Seine Design, Paris, France

    Gerard Ronzatti & Petar Lovric

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  1. School of Civil Engineering, The University of Queensland, Saint Lucia, QLD, Australia

    Prof. Chien Ming Wang

  2. Society of Floating Solutions, Singapore, Singapore

    Soon Heng Lim

  3. Singapore Institute of Technology, Singapore, Singapore

    Assist. Prof. Zhi Yung Tay

Appendix 1: The Moor—Flexible, Efficient and Easily Transportable

Appendix 1: The Moor—Flexible, Efficient and Easily Transportable

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Ronzatti, G., Lovric, P. (2020). Floating Infrastructure Large Scale Public Spaces on Water. In: Wang, C., Lim, S., Tay, Z. (eds) WCFS2019. Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering , vol 41. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-8743-2_3

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