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Our Projects
Sea Oasis
The SeaOasis is an experimental design response aimed at tackling the challenge of increasing food security through sustainable design. Problems and opportunities relating to current food supply were analyzed to formulate a specific design brief.
The brief aimed to identify key research directions that could support the improvement and sustainable future growth of current food systems through targeted design interventions and innovation.
SeaFisher
This patented structure has been designed for large aquaculture applications in a harsh off-shore environment. In the next years, it will be developed further with main industry partners (Tassal and Huon Aquaculture) and more than 30 international experts. It is as major project of the CRC Blue Economy, one of Australia's largest research programs.
SeaWatt 1000: The Clean Cheap Energy Solution on the Horizon
Floating 15MW Trestle Type Wind Farms combine advantages such as flexibility in location, reduced environmental impact, high wind speeds with lower construction costs, extended service life, and increased standardization. The associated Floating Energy Island integrates renewable hydrogen production, energy storage capabilities, and synchronization of offshore wind energy production with onshore demand.
SeaSurveyor
The recently signed UN High Seas Treaty aims to designate up to 30% of international waters as Marine Protection Areas (MPAs). Hotspots of marine biodiversity are sea mountains that form shallow waters in the middle of the sea. Since the successful protection of MPAs depends mainly on a physical presence on-site, we propose to position over the sea mountains floating bases that survey the MPAs and are therefore called "SeaSurveyors".
SeaManta
An artificial coral reef, integrated into the marine ecosystem, that can be enjoyed by divers below the water surface. Above water, hospitality and dive facilities, a swimming pool and interactive aquarium displays are inviting everybody who is thrilled by the synergy of marine wildlife’s protection and attraction. The Floating reef structure is shaped by environmental criteria like water current, wind flow, and sunlight.
SeaEstate
The evolution of human activities in the high seas, which cover nearly half of the Earth's surface, is influenced by geographical factors. Considering this combination enables us to make geostrategic predictions about various marine developments, including conflicts of economic, political, military, and environmental nature in territories with overlapping stakeholder interests.
Cities+1m
A manual and test-run demonstrating how to provide coastal environments and cities with the best opportunities for a sea-level rise of +1m. Cities can be protected against sea-level rise, or they may retreat. But they are also able to accommodate or to advance onto the water. Cities+1m delivers a strategy that creates new opportunities by combining different scenarios to achieve the “best of all worlds”.
Our Movies
SeaPort
The next stage in the evolution of container ports involves the creation of floating SeaPorts, positioned to significantly cut arrival times. This advancement brings numerous economic advantages, such as a 40% cost reduction compared to current mega ports, endless expansion potential, unrestricted draft access, and the release of valuable port land for coastal development.
SeaFisher
This patented structure has been designed for large aquaculture applications in a harsh off-shore environment. In the next years, it will be developed further with main industry partners (Tassal and Huon Aquaculture) and more than 30 international experts. It is as major project of the CRC Blue Economy, one of Australia's largest research programs.
SeaWatt 1000: The Clean Cheap Energy Solution on the Horizon
Floating 15MW Trestle Type Wind Farms combine advantages such as flexibility in location, reduced environmental impact, high wind speeds with lower construction costs, extended service life, and increased standardization. The associated Floating Energy Island integrates renewable hydrogen production, energy storage capabilities, and synchronization of offshore wind energy production with onshore demand.
Our Books
Cities+1m: Urban Development Solutions for Sea Level Rise
- Highlights various solutions for the required transition of coastal cities due to +1m sea level rise
- Adds two more solutions where cities can advance onto the water or can accommodate
- Introduces four different concepts in a manual and as urban design proposals for one specific site
SeaCities:
Urban Tactics for Sea-level Rise
- Highlights a strategy which includes four tactics on how to deal with the risk of sea-level rise and other water hazards
- Presents case studies from three cities
- Offers opportunities for cities for urban extensions like marine estates, aquatic food production, sea-related industry, and oceanic tourist attractions
- Highlights future city development from terrestrial towards an amphibious and aquatic understanding
- Presents topics relevant for a future aquatic urbanism- evolution of a taxonomy; wetland development; seascapes, etc
- Includes research outcome of Cities Research Institute's SeaCities group at Griffith University
SeaOasis
Floating Aquaculture for Smallholders' Global Food Security
- Highlights design proposal with the purpose of relieving from lack of global food supply
- Presents an extension of aquatic food production with floating devices onto the sea called SeaOasis
- Discusses the entire process from problem statement to design development and the preparation of its implementation
The next SeaCities Springer book "At the Edge of the Sea: The Evolution of Amphibious Concepts" is in process and will be launched in September 2024
- It will highlight innovative amphibious concepts that can be developed for the edge of the sea.
- It will explore interfaces between land/sea and coastal/international waters, and their geostrategic, ecological, urban, productive, indigenous, legal, historical, and artistic dimensions.
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