"Looks more like a ship sitting upside down on the water." (Image by Alexander Remizov.)

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.”