Water-Scraper: Underwater Skyscraper

A recent entry in the eVolo 2010 Skyscaper Competition deserves mention here: The Water-Scraper was submitted by Malaysian Sarly Adre Bin Sarkum and "utilizes a variety of green technologies. It generates its own electricity using wave, wind, and solar power and it produces its own food through farming, aquaculture, and hydroponic techniques. The surface of the submerged skyscraper sustains a small forest, while the lower levels contain spaces for its inhabitants to live and work. The building is kept upright using a system of ballasts aided by a set of squid-like tentacles that generate kinetic energy." Wow! Sarly has some imagination.


The Water-Scraper City

Quote, pic and more info from:
Underwater Skyscraper is a Self-Sufficient City at Sea | Inhabitat

Official competition entry:
http://www.evolo.us/competition/water-scraper-underwater-architecture/

 

Wow!

 

You know, all of these ideas are awesome and such, but it would be even more awesome if someone actually built one.

 

Get to it! Post in DIY board.

 

Dibs on a window room...

I still wonder why we haven't tried underwater living. Like 2/3 or 3/4 or whatever the number is of our Earth is water. Obviously that's alot of unused real estate right there. Our first space station in space was just a dinky little capsule. And now we've got that gigantic ISS out there So if we can make a big space station like that work well, I'm sure we can do something underwater. It ain't that hard. People just don't want to spend the money on it or take the risk.

 

I want a hammock in the forrest!

 

Man just being a SCUBA outer maintenance tech for a place like that would be sweet. All you gotta do is grab some scuba gear and do maintenance on the outside of the building...which just so happens to be underwater.

I'd buy stock in a place like this

 

Thats cool and all...but it seems like it would be a disaster waiting to happen. If they could successfully build one though..they should make it a hotel/resort. I'd get claustrophobic if I lived there.

 

That is amazing. Pity it's not overlooking a reef;D

 

Who's going to clean the glass?