Floating cities

What if New York city ... © Studio Lindfors/ Ostap Rudakevych

Ostap Rudakevych's emergency zeppelins that look like hybrids of an airship and an insect can be deployed other the rooftops of rescued communities while a team of workers fix the damage downstairs. 

Cloud skippers © Gretchen Stump/ Studio Lindorfs

While post-disaster cities, like Cloud cities or Archigram's pods prevent chaos, the Cloud skippers already float beyond the skyscrapers territories : their self-sufficient communities live on green platforms suspended by cables.

Cloud skippers © Rael Sanfratello

Rael Sanfratello pushes the idea further by sending out Floating gardens, inflatable dirigables resembling giant jellyfishes, which transport growing gardens and migrate from one city to another following the seasons.

Flooded cities

 
Flooded London © Anthony Lau  

Facing the potential rise of sea levels, Anthony Lau and his idea of living on oil platforms on the London's Estuary concentrates on escapism, relates to space in the same way as Howl's moving castle's transformative home or Archigram's walking city. 

Howl's moving castle © Miyazaki 

© Archigram 

Today in Lea valley, those who live on barges can harvest neetle or comfrey from nearby marshlands, cycle to work along river pathways, grow food on nearby allotments and plant nurseries, avoiding the city pavements. 


Aqualta © Studio Lindfors

Tomorrow in Tokyo or New York, citizens could transport themselves via gondoles and suspended bridges, acclimatise their agro-system to a wet landscape, inhabit their territories alongside the wildlife and feed on the edible landscape. 
Why not adapting to the sea rise rather than fear its consequences ?

Aqualta © Studio Lindfors