Futuristic designs reveal how climate change could cause us to live in the oceans or in orbit

With a growing global population and threats of rising sea levels, architects are starting to look to the sea and sky to solve the impending housing crisis.

As part of the sixth edition of the annual International Future Architecture competition, entrants have been asked to imagine life where the oceans and space would be populated with extraordinary buildings and towns.

And to promote the competition, and encourage designers to enter, the team has compiled the best designs from recent years.

Last year there were entries from 96 different countries.

Another lunar-themed idea from previous years was Moon: Origin Point by Miloje Krunic, Aleksandar Copic, Nikola Radojicic, Mina Stevic and Nikola Protic.

This design was an autonomous habitat for up to 20 million people designed to use the Moon’s ‘abundant mineral resources’ and was submitted in the 2013 competition.

The idea behind ‘Moon: Origin Point’ takes place in phases.

First is the establishment of a grid of artificial satellites around the moon that provides the necessary energy for the mining operation.

Secondly, semi-transparent domed structures that have been designed to enable an ecosystem will be placed on the surface; thirdly the moon would become a place that humans could live, by creating materials like oxygen.

‘Oxygen can be created from the ground with in addition a bit of metal and other materials found on the Moon using solar energy,’ the designer said at the time.

Finally, humans would populate the moon as step two is replicated to enable growth and expansion of housing.

Called Biodiver City, it is a floating man-made island that doubles as a marine life-fostering artificial reef.

The massive faux-reef invites visitors to observe marine ecosystems from the surface to the ocean floor.

Source: Daily mail

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