About Seasteading Floating City
Two teams have actually published what a floating city looks like: OCEANIX Busan, built with BIG, SAMOO and UN-Habitat, and the Seasteading Institute's Floating City Project in French Polynesia. Both landed on the same module — a hexagonal platform, assembled on shore and towed out to a mooring.
The renderings are quieter than you would expect. Grey-teal Pacific water, timber decking, rattan screens, biorock accreting on the hulls. This system takes that restraint literally: an unlit night-sea ground, one warm value for everything people touch, and chart-annotation rules doing the structural work.
- Origin
- Oceania / Pacific Rim — French Polynesia, Busan, open ocean
- Era
- 2008–present; Oceanix City concept 2019, OCEANIX Busan prototype 2022
- Key figures
- Bjarke Ingels · Marc Collins Chen · Itai Madamombe · Patri Friedman · Joe Quirk
- Movements
- Floating urbanism · Modular marine architecture · International Code of Signals
Seasteading Floating City design spec
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