World’s First Floating City Satellite Image
World’s First Floating City Satellite Image
In the turquoise waters of the Indian Ocean, a floating city—possibly the first in history—is beginning to take shape.
World’s First Floating City Satellite Image
The Maldives Floating City is an initiative by Maxar Technologies to create modular floating platforms, and the state of progress is shown in satellite footage exclusively provided to findheadline. The project is expected to be finished in 2027.
The Maldivian government, along with the Dutch architectural firm Waterstudio, created the “island city,” which is emerging in a lagoon around ten minutes by boat from Male, the country’s capital.
The South Asian island nation, which is the lowest-lying nation in the world with an average height of only five feet above sea level, is confronting a very real challenge, and this solution is meant to be a workable one.
The principal architect on the project, Koen Olthuis, told findheadline that the first residents of the development are anticipated to move in within 14 months.
The building phase is presently moving under full throttle, but there was a “little delay because of some political way finding between Indian and Chinese-oriented economic interests.”
Waterstudio
Waterstudio estimates that the city will eventually house 20,000 people in 5,000 houses arranged in a hexagonal grid resembling a “brain coral” that links to an outer ring of barrier islands that will serve as breakers. The primary mode of transportation throughout the island and between the mainland will be boats rather than cars.
The price is what may pique the interest of potential inhabitants the most. A press release from 2021 stated that the starting price for a family house would be $250,000 USD.
All of the residences will be sea-facing by design. Although the developers intend for foreign investors to purchase residences, they are also selling to “local fishing families who, for centuries, have called the area home.”
World’s First Floating City Satellite Image
Aiding in the reduction of mainland overpopulation was one of the pitch’s initial goals, given the constantly expanding tourism sector.
However, the 1,100 coral islands that make up the Maldives are in danger due to rising sea levels, which is another reason for the master plan. NASA believes that by the middle of the century, sea level rise might render up to 80% of the country uninhabitable.
World’s First Floating City Satellite Image
The project’s backer and former president of the Maldives, Mohamed Nasheed, argued during the planning stages that the idea’s genius lay in the fact that it didn’t call for any land reclamation or any negative effects on the coral reefs in the ocean. He characterized it as an inventive and sustainable possible remedy for the existential threat posed by climate change.
“In the Maldives we cannot stop the waves, but we can rise with them,” Nasheed stated.
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