As it turns out, Oceanix, a tech company, will actually try to see if their proposal lives up to the hype in a real-world scenario. It proposed a very different future, but one that was doable nonetheless. Introduced as a concept in 2019, during a UN round-table discussion on the threats of rising water levels to coastal communities, Oceanix City gained international attention almost immediately. It is a floating conglomeration of smaller platforms, linked together and each destined for different functionalities a self-sustaining, closed-loop community that lives and thrives on the rising water that constantly threatens coastal towns. We’re talking about the future being laid out brick by brick, and that’s no exaggeration.Īs we noted in a previous coverstory on Oceanix, the floating city has been designed by Bjarke Ingels’ prestigious BIG design firm as nothing short of a dream. Make no mistake about it, if the plan goes through and the prototype is built, it will mark an important step toward building the city of tomorrow.

The announcement was made in the second half of last month, but for whatever reason, it failed to get proper worldwide recognition until this week. For a project of this scale, 2025 is the equivalent of “tomorrow.” On the downside, such a close deadline hints that the scale of the prototype will be minimal, serving more as a testbed for technology than anything else. Plans call for the prototype to set sail by 2025, which is perhaps the most startling part about the announcement. In other words, it is the perfect place to build a scaled-down version of the world’s first floating city. It will be located off the coast of Busan, a city with 3.4 million residents that also happens to be one of the largest container handling ports in the world, due to its deep harbor and gentle tides. Oceanix has announced that it has joined forces with UN-Habitat and the Busan Metropolitan City of the Republic of Korea, and signed an agreement to build a prototype of the Oceanix City.

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