While some worry about protecting their houses against alien-invasions (cf. Cruise’s bunker plans), climate change makes many governments worry about rising sea levels and protecting their citizens from water. ‘Fight or embrace’ seem to be the two main categories of choice in how to deal with it.

We already featured waterbound living solutions designed by visionaries such as Jacque Fresco and many will have heard about Joachim Hauser’s Hydropolis underwater hotel being constructed in Dubai.

The Giancarlo Zema Design Group, an ‘innovative semisubmerged architecture studio’ as they label themselves, developed inspiring waterbound habitats such as the Jellyfish 45, Trilobis 65, the Neptus 60 cliff house, the semi-submerged Frond Village 30 in Tahiti or the Amphibious 1000 luxury resort … etc.

While such developments might seem far-off to some, the development and production of such solutions is (or is becoming) a current business niche. The what if question becomes interesting when certain drivers have the potential to push such developments from niche in the direction of common awareness or mainstream use.

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