If the world keeps getting warmer and the oceans rise, we’ll have issues much larger to deal with than booking a room in a luxury hotel. But Russian architect Alexander Remizov has nonetheless designed a pre-fab hotel that can be built on water as readily as on land. An excerpt from a Spiegel article about the waterborne lodging known as the “Ark”:
“The rising sea waters caused by global warming have inspired a Russian architect to design a hotel that could be built on water as well as land. The eco-friendly ‘Ark’ could be constructed in just a few months anywhere in the world, the designer says.
It’s called “The Ark”, but looks more like a ship sitting upside down on the water. A new design by Russian architect Alexander Remizov challenges the tradition of land-based hotel living and would provide a refuge in the future — should the world face a modern-day flood of Biblical proportions.
Remizov designed the hotel as part of a program on architecture and disaster relief through the International Union of Architects (UIA). He collaborated with a German design and engineering firm and the Moscow-based scientist Lev Britvin, who, according to Remizov, has developed energy-saving solutions for space stations. They are now searching for investors to make the design a reality.”
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