South Korea is Building The World's First Floating City
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I feel like calling them natural disaster proof is temping fate. Anyone remember how the titanic was unsinkable?
Titanic is UK made of course it sinks! 🤣
@@casieluiry9296 lol😂
Japan protects Korea from most of the Typhoons.
@@erozionzeall6371 Well that’s nice of Japan. 😜👍
Hm I mean engineering has advanced pretty well since then.
Looks like one of the first aesthetically pleasing solution for coastal cities expanding into the water. Will be interesting to see how innovation ramps up with necessity
Why did everyone criticize saudi arabia when it said it would make a floating city but praise korea? Take your guesses.
Hmmm, maybe we could move inland you know.
I don't know, looks like it's a sham to me. Unfortunately Koreans loves to eat those shams.
Shams are totally impractical but hey at least they sound tasty
@@skrigged9270 What are you talking about? Most people praised it when the Saudis were building it. You are just seeing what you want to see
@@nntflow7058 Well Korea's mountainous and soon-to-be sort of running out of land - in this case it'd be more practical to expand coastwards and waterwards as possible.
There’s already floating buildings such as in Amsterdam so it doesn’t seem too far fetched of an idea. Just wouldn’t catch me on that during a typhoon. Another great video Tomorrow’s Build
Thats the main problem I see with the concept. Climate change will increase the rate and intensity of natural disasters, which will wreck these floating cities.
@@2MeterLP Clue's in the name! Normal houses drown in your tomorrow's world typhoon every time, whilst these floaters stand/bob about in good stead.
@@2MeterLP They're pretty huge platforms, I don't think too hard (relatively speaking) to engineer them to withstand powerful storms. Oil platforms survive just fine.
Floating farm in Rotterdam as well. Although, one of the cows tried to escape it last year.
Its built by the Koreans so it should be very safe and sturdy. If it was built by China then yes, I would be worried as hell.
the thing i'm mostly concerned by is how affordable can this type of housing really be?? Most of the world can't realistically afford to buy a floating home with ultra modern tech and amenities available. I fear this is just another excuse for millionaires to save their assess whilst condemning everybody else and as a way to create a physical divide between them and lower income classes.
Only rich people can afford all of the cool sci fi stuff that we see in movies
Even the non high tech floating houses in Seattle aren't cheap because of location and floating complications to utilities
SHHHHH! Dont you know youre not supposed to say the quiet parts out loud!
They could be. Factory - float the entire house to its location ( single/ duplex/ 4 small apartment) it's basically a barge
Floridas bays would be a good location - adding on to communities not building a self sufficient city.
The future will be elysium anyway.
The puns and references did not go unnoticed. I smiled throughout the entire video.
Hahaha, you're welcome!! We IMMERSED you in comedy.
@@TomorrowsBuild It was great being inundated with puns. It was great you kept them flowing - I'm glad no one is salty about it
I question the impermanence, and the need for maintenance. Boats don't last forever, and they don't float forever without regular repairs. This will be a considerable head-ache. I can foresee certain locations offering enough benefits to make it viable, but I don't see this replacing land reclamation any time soon.
you are right but keep in mind that buildings on land also need to be repaired from time to time, probably not as often as boats though.
imagine your boat getting broken in the middle of the ocean.
it's floating concrete
Gotta find sheltered water to transfer floating superstructure from old floaty to new floaty
Body corp fees I guess ;).
Anything that involve aquatic cities of any kind, wether they be surface-level or subaquatic, is an instant moment of joy for me. Thank you so much!
Isn't Atlantis a floating city?
@@SylkaChan depends of its portrayal in the fiction it is in, some make it an insular city (on an island/continent), others a floating city, others a subaquatic city.
I like the idea of working with nature, instead of always fighting it.
Looks like a neat solution for offices and expensive housing. I don't see the average Joe living in these, so it will probably not solve housing demands. There are also hundreds of questions to solve like how to get rid of garbage and sewage. If people are willing to pay for it, sure why not?
Burj Khalifa is kind of a darling for the B1M channel, and its sewage is transported by a truck convoy. People will pay
My first question is how it's not gonna get wrecked in a tsunami or storm
sewage treatment can be done really well like in a biosolid/biogas plant that can produce energy and fertiliser while treating the water, and thus not needing any sort of discharge into the environment.
Actually this was a believe discussed on another channel as well. Everything will be designed to be recyclable from the start so a lot of things would be compared to down and used for composting and everything else would be fixed by regular pick up deliveries for any more solid products.
@@tomlxyz it’s not out in the open ocean, it’s in the bay of the city. It’s not going to be affected by huge sea storms and I don’t think Busan sees many tsunamis. You might get a little sea sick during a storm but your house isn’t gonna sink.
**Slaps the roof of a floating building** This baby can fit so many puns!
7:52 "Then by the year 3000, .... not much will have changed but we'll be living on top of the water" well done
And your great great great granddaughter is pretty fine.
I think floating city is a great idea, but I don't really feel comfortable about the way they attached to each others. Those need to be much stronger or some ways to flex with the ocean waves in a storm.
Flexibility is probably a virtue in that case though. Stiff connections could break and damage the remaining structure, while a system of cables has some elasticity.
I'm certain the engineers will figure it out. Not ours to speculate or assume lol
Ooh, if the Maldives become fully submerged but still inhabit floating structures, that's going to be a fun legal debate. I guess shifting borders when land gets submerged will be a prime source of conflict basically everywhere on earth.
This is interesting. In Seoul, we already have what is called the floating islands at Banpo bridge. It will be nice to see how this pans out for Busan.
But South Koreans are all leaving Korea to be far away from North Korea.
@@eduardochavacano
Where are they heading ??
@@eduardochavacano This third world liar is talking the opposite, we're growing in population
from overseas Koreans and foreigners who want to move to Korea.
@@eduardochavacano You wrote "ALL" Koreans are leaving.
What a nonsense!
It's like writing "ALL Hispanics are leaving their countries to live illegally in the US on hard-working Americans' tax dollars."
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I'm loving the water related puns: "the idea was first floated", "[..] made waves".. and when I thought there would be no more "[...] is jumping in the deep-end"
We had massive floating buildings in Biloxi, Mississippi until Hurricane Katrina hit and deposited those buildings on land. They became battering rams and leveled all the buildings on shore.
I'll believe it when I see it. Everthing looks good in CGI
I'd quite like my floating city to move. Head to the tropics in winter, then move north (or south) in summer (summer being the hot season irrespective of hemisphere). Also floating data centres are an abslutely brilliant idea that needs to happen.
Valuable data won't be risked to get drowned in the bottom of ocean
They tested submerged data centers already. Turns out the servers survibe much better, since they were flooded with nitrogen.
@@2HN. do you think companies runnings data centers keep 1 copy of everything they store? good god how behind the times are you
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Costner and I went to the same high school and nobody who's anybody forgot about the cinematic masterpiece WaterWorld.
... and Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves
How would sunlight reach the ocean floor in such a case? And how would these cities be affected by seismic activity?
They would not be affected by seismic directly, however some of the results from a seismic event would be cause for concern... such as tsunamis.
But related to seismic, the waves hitting the building would create a constant shake on the structure that would need to be designed and braced as if it were on land.
@@fuzybear15 Actually tsunamis are really only a problem on land. Off the coast it's merely a slow increase and decrease of water level by a few m.
Ah, yes, but what about hurricanes?
Most visible light is already absorbed within 10 meters, and nearly all light is absorbed by 150m of water. Fair question though, close to the shore it would definitely impact kelp growth and such.
@@andrewspielman1921 on the open sea, some sea tugs could tow these floaters out of the storm's way, ofc /s
0:10 WHAT? Waterworld was one of the most awesome movies of my childhood!
I don’t think “climate change” is what’s driving this I think it probably has more to do with running out of flat buildable land within the city. So this is really just a newer cheaper form of land reclamation.
You miss the part where he said a third of the city of 3.4m people will be at risk of flooding in just 8 years? One of the closest cities to sea level building floating islands is not a coincidence.
Water front land
@@krashd Fake news alarmists climate change activism. If that were true why are people still buying water front properties?
@@krashd No one really believes this. Ask yourself why Obama bought a house on the ocean.
@@krashd lol, i have seen a lot of these , none have happen, since the 80s they say islands , etc are going under sea water, until now, nothing, see you in 8 years 😀
I fully belive that this is superior to land reclamation. Safer, cheaper, faster and might even create new marine habitats instead of destroying them.
There would be an artificial reef under each of these platforms if we engineer them right
Waterworld is a fantastic terrrible movie! One of my favs. A fun watch
Yes, I certainly didn’t forget about it. I liked it as a kid.
The recycling old people bit was the funniest
Oh cool! I always thought the first Seastead was going to be in Panama! Nice to see large scale seasteading getting some real attention.
Waterworld is memorable, and was actually a good film
I’m just worrying about seasickness. Whenever there’s a storm, you’ll be throwing up in the bathroom. I also winder about accessibility. The floating platforms are more spread out than regular city buildings, this means it will take longer to get from one side of the city to the other. Then you add the fact that the boats would be slower than cars (unless you want everyone getting splashed with water as they zoom past) and people mostly walking everywhere, it doesn’t seem very easy to traverse the city for the residents or for outside people to visit.
It's always nice to see futuristic ideas that look like Elysium but never showing how and who is gonna do the maintenance. A bit like Dubai and its slave labour force presently.
And only the elite will live in these futuristic cities.
start with the rich to test the city and maybe later try to adapt it to the poor like most technologie that were created like the car or the phone for exemple
Workers will do the maintenance?
There's a reason why our social economic infrastructure is a pyramid scale. Keep the bottom majority poor to do blue collar jobs.
Elysium... now there's a forgotten film!
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Between now and 2030, the water level at Busan is expected to rise about 25mm. For you to say that part of Busan will be underwater in eight years sounds ridiculous.
Busan might as well build it because it's a globally important shipyard?
It won't be permanently underwater but increased storm surges and coastal erosion will threaten coastal developments for sure.
@@ninjafruitchilled Japan is there to soak up the tsunamis and earthquakes, hard, but geographical fact.
Seems like a good place to live. The fact that there will be no cars there will make it a paradise because it will be designed completely around walking and cycling.
Maybe I could test the idea with my powered wheelchair?
@@peem1244 that is the good thing about a city designed for cycling, very wheelchair accessible.
"Is this really what the future of our cities will look like?"
No.
The answer is no.
It seems quite expensive. There might be a couple rich people in their floating houses but the rest of the population will probably just start building houses further inland.
This is honestly really cool
This only works in a marina, out at sea you'll need structures to break the waves and if you can build a structure to break the waves then you can build a sea wall. If the water levels does reach the levels they're predicting then the sea wall can double as a hydroelectric dam.
Any tidal movements can be used for electric generation as well
Love the vids. Wondering how many of the items on this channel have actually been delivered?
None
It's almost as if the channel is geared towards stuff that will be built in the future...
I'd almost be hyped about it, but I can only take so many greenwashing buzzwords before I get annoyed with a project
7:12 "we don't make any more land"
I think the Dutch would like a word with you.
There's a lot of water puns in this video...and I'm here for it
What happens during a typhoon or other tropical storm? As massive as these structures will be, if they're floating the swell created from high winds will still have an impact on the platform's stability, or will cause flooding. A structure that large could also suffer from a lot of stress from the waves too - which will mean it'll require a lot of flexibility meaning the whole thing will be bobbing around like a dinghy... That would be pretty nauseating, surely?
pretty sure the engineers will put everything into account
@@saintantony944 And will probably show the execs pulling this marketing stunt reasons to cancel the project.
@@saintantony944 have to*
@@saintantony944 oh I don't doubt that this will be considered... But I'd really like to understand how they're mitigating these issues. I can't really imagine living in a building that's going to be thrown around when the wind is strong.
It sinks, then they either run away or sue the government somehow and win
despite being a big financial failure i liked waterworld , it's a good movie
Now this is amazing
I really love it and hope that we can see the first platform completed soon enough.
Very cool. We’re going to need these in the future.
or we could just not build right at the sea
What if there was a tsunami? What if there was a typhoon? What if the concrete casing cracked? What if the teathers snapped? What if it wasn’t sunny considering it’s run on solar? What if the power storage failed? I hope they are thinking about all of these questions and not just making some nice looking CGI pictures to wow the public into thinking this is an ok use of our resources.
I like that you add some of your own personality in it. Improves the experience.
I like the idea.. i think as time goes on, projects like this will be inevitable
Why...? What does this actually solve? You know what's the best way to combat raising sea levels? MOVE MORE INLAND LMAO
@@akalion213
But the ocean is so pretty tho.
I wonder how many of those floating “cities” are also designed with safety in mind (since that isn’t mentioned in the video) What if a boat crashes into the buildings and causes holes in those floating tanks? Or if the same happens because of a fire or explosion? I assume / hope they aren’t designed in a way that this would cause them to sink…
How can you not know water world? It is one of the main attractions at Universal Studios! :P
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Another gimmick to make us feel like we're doing something when we in reality are doing nothing.
I love Waterworld............I adamantly believe that the movie will at some point make a come back as a major cult classic.
I mean look up the length Costner went through to get the entire opening sequence to be live action......and it looks amazing to this day!
I too was one of those that loved Waterworld. To this day I believe it has been completely underrated.
Lol that Busted reference at the end!
That's awesome
Yeah, but what about tsunami? They kind of raise the sea level quickly and to heights that are fairly above average. How will they plan for that?
You don’t. It would be incredible hard to make it tsunami proof. But it will probably never encounter a tsunami, I don’t think they get them often in Busan.
I've always wanted to visit the lost city of Atlantis.
This seems exciting, I cant wait to see what becomes of this
That movie was awesome, new concept great story and very interesting. We don't get movies like that anymore
okay interesting… but I feel like instead of creating all this new stuff they could just make ships that feel more home-ey and run more sustainably. Cause I guess it can do all of what’s in this video but additionally they have tons of preexisting knowledge and they’re mobile 🌚😅
yeah but then I guess they’d be pretty similar anyways and maybe the video implied exactly that at the beginning
That has a lot more legal requirement for occupants and owners because of rules for ships, I think
South Korea is well developed, so I don't doubt this project!
That moive was epic !!!
Lol that Busted joke at the end 🤣
I love South Korea so much. They people are super friendly and I need to go back. Maybe after the floating city is made.
Nature is unpredictable and history has shown that. I really do hope they have plans for every event
What a great initiative by a forward-thinking country! Keep up the good works, guys.
WOW! A wonderful idea. Hope I will be able to see this plan.
I thought you were going to mention Nigeria at a point, since there's a lagoon city, a whole city built on the ocean, an already tried idea for the slum built on the water, and the fact that fixing that has been one of the major inspirations to building floating cities in the first place, it's fine tho
That's not a city, that's a sewer. It should be taken down as soon as possible.
@@antoniousai1989 as in Eko Atlantic city
This is disappointing if these platforms are gated off from general public. The non high tech floating houses in Seattle aren't cheap because of location and floating complications to utilities, and maybe because they're not a project for public benefit
It's building in the worst place possible in the most resource intensive and wasteful way possible. This exists only for rich assholes to wank themselves off. This kind of stuff is never for public benefit. It's a dick measuring contest for the rich, and something for naive masses to hype over "sounding cool".
What is cheap, is building on land, because you don't have to waste a huge amount of resources to make a floating platform for who knows how much weight. Air carriers aren't cheap. It's incomparably cheaper to build on land, build higher, build denser, build smaller, or taller, there are many options cheaper than a "cool looking" floating platform.
Just think about it, having to build a platform to make a huge load float on water will always be a huge cost added on top of everything else.
loved waterworld! one of my favorite childhood movies.
All the good water puns !!
Have we run out of land that is above sea level? 🤷♂️ It’s an interesting idea, but why not just build high enough above sea level to avoid sea level rise AND tsunami? Also, given that buildings are designed to last say 50 years, when each replacement is built every 50 years, we can accomodate sea level rise for another 50 years without going to such a costly extreme? 🤔
Pretty sure a rigid structure is more extreme than floating in this scenario. Earth is short on sand and concrete now, and you propose regularly replacing what would be a 75+ yr structure every 50
Worlds first? False. The Aztecs were far earlier with that….just to mention one thing to debunk it
but they build whole floating villages? Also, being forgotten are the Uru people living in an actual living floating city in Peru.
@@Game_Hero the Aztec capital Tenochtitlan was all built on water surrounding an Island. I know others did so too, but my point was to just debunk this “new” city building on water as being the first to do so when ancient dynasties did so ages ago already.
@@Channel17961 Not all places experience a tsunami
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Is there any actual evidence that sea levels are rising? I mean, I fully support all of our efforts to curb human pollution (car smog is a nasrty/disgusting thing) but if your going to scare people with a doomsday scenario shouldn't there be a very easily measurable metric for how much they have risen so far?
Sea levels have been steadily rising at about 2.8 mm per year - for approximately the last 20,000 years. Just say no to fear porn.
@@CrankyHermit please take your anti-science, conspiracy theory BS elsewhere.
@@BTScriviner No.
Looks incredible. Would love to work in start-ups like that.
I remember! And loved it in the movies!
looks like a scam...
Why would we not remember the cinematiic classic that is Waterworld...?
It would be a really nice idea, the aztecs did the same 700 years ago, they built a floating city with more than 400,000 people living on the city, it was really advanced technology for a city that was built 700 years ago
That was on a lake, very sheltered. This is in an ocean bay
@@hobog Yeah but still, it is not a dangerous zone, it is near the coast
Very interesting !!!!
Waterworld is a movie best forgotten. Thanks for reminding me
It's one tsunami away from being a boat anchor. Enjoy
In 1998, I was in 7th grade at Webb Jr High School in Hazel Park, Michigan. Our science class participated in the Future Cities Competition put on by the SAE. We presented at the Henry Ford museum and were 3rd place out of over a dozen teams that year. We choose a floating city, in hexagonal pattern, formed by electrifying metal rods to create a type of ocean concrete. Aquaponics and hydroponics were to be the food supply, along with becoming an artificial reef due to the nature of the aquacrete. The only thing this OCEANIX company didn't steal from us 😂 was the OTEC (Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion) power supply. You need a source of cold, deep water to make it work.
Concrete will not be used for the overall capability in structural design, when we can just grow Hempcrete and Myceliumcrete alternatives. Growing and Expanding at a faster, safer, cheaper pace than we ever could with concrete.
How are people not remembering Waterworld? There's tons of land movies but only a handful of movies set on the water and as far as memory serves only one post-apocalyptic water movie.
That movie, sir, is iconic!
It would be awesome if they can build a version of “Tipoca City from Planet Kamino in the Star Wars Universe”.
So solarpunk, so idyllic! 😍
My brother and I watched Waterworld a million times on vhs as kids 😄
Oh wow so its like the original plan for EPCOT but on water 🌊❤
Puntastic! 🤩👍🤦♀️
I love it .
Excellent Busted reference.
lovely
The world's first floating city! (If you don't count all the other floating cities, like Lagos.)
I went to see the film I dont remember it, i was a little tippsy (well OK drunk)🤣
BTW Great video 👍👍
Gotta say, it's nice to have serious and less serious avenues to enjoy your material. And why not be a little bit cheekier when talking about the more ambitious ideas of the near future?
Everybody remembers Water World, that movie is iconic.
This is cool