Fancy living at sea?
This funky partly-submerged oddity is a design for a floating house, with five stories and enough room for six people. Featuring a bathroom and guest room slightly underwater and a lower level observation room for looking into the ocean depths, this would be a room fitting of many a sf or Bond villain! It even includes an electrical generator and enough storage for weeks of food and water. The entire structure is plastic, fibreglass and acrylic but will cost potential buyers a cool $2.5 Millon, which isn’t actually that much compared to a lot of mansions these days.
[via Neatorama, photo by sub-find]
October 5th, 2007 at 11:44 pm
I can imagine farmers in 10-25 years with a sea-based pen for fish breeding, living in a thing just like this one, with some added deckspace. If such a habitat could be made selfsustaining, with some extra solar cells to power a hydrogen engine boat, it would be a safe place to live in all the global unrest I expect after 2020. The sea may be a great bet to live off the grid and survive into a more stable nano-abundant age.
Now for winning a multimillion lottery ticket…
October 9th, 2007 at 4:42 pm
With the state of the oceans, and the large number of… uncalm areas I can’t see myself living near a populated coastline wracked by hurricanes.
As for the power generation, a single wind turbine near the habitat would probably suffice for multiple homes like this.
October 10th, 2007 at 6:55 am
If there were an option for total submergement, you might be able to withstand the worst of hurricanes. I believe the waves aren’t too bad deeper underwater, though I’m not sure about this. Any marine whosits want to postulate?