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star4589
this raises a lot of questions:
Where does the human waste go?
What do they do if there's a storm w/rough waters?
Floating roadway....seriously?
What is the weight capacity?
Are they allowed to fish off the balcony?
Morgan
Regardless, that is freaking awesome!
Misc.
1. Septic tank
2. I'd assume they wouldn't dock it on open ocean
3. Seriously
4. Enough to support what they need, I guess
5. Probably
Foreigner1
Nothing special- Amsterdam already has a whole burrough -Schinkel- that is made of floating houses with one or two stories and with balconies.
And in and around most old Dutch cities you can find them in the canals and moats.
The only difference is the size and modernity of this contraption.
Some years ago in 2003 there were already experiments with a floating highway in the Mid-Dutch river-area Near Den Bosch. It worked fine and it is now part of the measures to keep the infrastructure of that region intact when there is flooding.
The Citadel is a project that won't be built on open sea, but in a polder-area where in times of heavy rain, the water level can rise upto 2 meters with water from rivers coming from upstream. The Netherlands gets lots of rainwater from Germany and Switzerland and Belgium and France via rivers like Rhine, Maas and Waal. That water can be so much that it floods the lowlands downstream. And there such floating projects like Citadel could be just the thing to keep dry feet.
To throw out a line to fish in most places is possible if you get a permit. In some places fishing is strictly forbidden, but that'll be something to see then and there.
Gail Pink
I would like to live there.
benjie
ahmmm im an architecture student of the University of Saint Louis-Tuguegarao, Philippines. i have a project on our "Research Method" subject about a floating structure too but anti-gravity concept...its my dream and proposal anyway, then my instructor liked it on the other hand...ahmm can you please help me on it???
Thank you and Godbless!!!
susannah
yes ,it is amazing .
Andy ,from england,loved a girl from the city which flooded,he build a floating school,for her and the kids .
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