AT Design Office提出通过分块浮动的城市网络，以削弱城市化对土地利用的影响。由中国建筑公司委托中交股份制定了海洋都市计划，包括四平方英里的浮岛，可以容纳海上社区。通过制造六角形预制模块，海上浮城将为大陆提供一个生活附属地。
虽然浮城听起来很荒诞，但它却具有十分现实的意义。六角形的模块中，上层和下层的水区构成一个庞大的岛屿，这座岛将包括垂直农场和鱼孵化场，以生产自己的食物，到处设置环卫设施，并起到循环利用的作用，设计还特别强调零碳和能源效率。岛与岛之间形成连接并构成集群，它们将通过海底隧道连接到对方或者到大陆。绿化带将包括岛上的中心枢纽，与上下层的水区形成一个连续的公园，而酒店和休闲娱乐区将被安置在水下。在设计中，也预见了潜艇、游船和渡船作为公共交通枢纽，运送居民到大陆或浮岛集群中。
译者：筑龙网 饭团小组
T Design Office proposes to combat the effects of urbanization on land by staging networks of floating cities. Commissioned by Chinese construction firm CCCC, the ocean metropolis plan comprises a four-square-mile floating island that could house a neighborhood offshore. Made from prefabricated hexagonal modules, the Floating City would be self-sustaining and provide a comfortable alternative to overcrowding on the mainland.
Although a Floating City may sound fantastical, it is much more realistic than you’d like as it would be built with the same technologies that CCCC has used to build a 31 mile bridge between Hong Kong, Macau and Zhuhai. AT Design Office’s plan is a sprawling island made from hexagonal modules, with areas both above and below water. The island would include vertical farms and fish hatcheries to produce its own food, as well as trash facilities to sustainably dispose of their own waste. AT Design also notes that the island will be zero-carbon and energy efficient.
The island, which would be arranged in clusters with other prefab islands, would be connected with underwater tunnels to both each other and to the mainland. Green belts would comprise the island’s central hub, weaving under and above water as a continuous park, while a hotel and amusement city will be housed underwater. AT Design also foresees a public traffic hub for submarines, cruise ships and ferries, to transport inhabitants to the mainland or within the Floating Island cluster.The Floating City may sound like science fiction, but China Transport Investment Company is seriously reviewing the proposal for a possible small scale project next year.
