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Floating projects and aquatecture expert, Nathalie Mezza-Garcia, interviews the top architects, developers, designers, and engineers floating architecture (aquatecture) field from all across the world. Here you'll learn about the coolest...
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Floating projects and aquatecture expert, Nathalie Mezza-Garcia, interviews the top architects, developers, designers, and engineers floating architecture (aquatecture) field from all across the world. Here you'll learn about the coolest latest floating homes, neighborhoods, and even floating city plans. You'll also learn about how every day more buildings and structures on water are planned with a flood-resilient component.
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The Floating Cities Show
The Floating Cities Show
E01. Aquatecture and Flood-proof Houses by Baca Architects
22 FEB 2022 · This video takes us to an aquatecture journey by Bacca Architects, a trip that stops on an Underwater Discovery Centre, a Floating Sanctuary, and one of Baca's most iconic works, the Amphibious House of Buckinghamshire in the UK. This house rises or lowers as the water level changes. Here you'll find out what the difference is between amphibious and floating houses, and Baca's commitment to a greener/blue, and overall, more sustainable future.
In this video, our CEO, Nathalie Mezza-Garcia, talked with Richard Coutts, co-founder of Baca Architects, an architecture firm based in London working with projects on or near water. Richard tells us about the origin of some of their designs, how they've emerged, and even shows us the original drafts of some of the most impressive floating projects the firm has developed.
@bacaarchitects @Baca_Architects #floatingcities #seaphia #floatingarchitecture #aquatecture
E02. Curved Floating Home Design by Ocean Builders.
22 FEB 2022 · In this video, Grant Romundt, CEO of Ocean Builders, tells our very own Nathalie Mezza-Garcia details about the egg-shaped, futuristic Ocean Builders seapods. Grant talks about the seapod manufacturing process, the curved shaped homes, designed by Waterstudio, and the different systems they are creating for their floating homes, including wireless charging stations, led lights, shower with multiple controls and personalization. Watch this episode if you want to know more about one of the most beautiful floating projects in existence.
E03. Aquatecture Projects by DADA Architects
22 AUG 2022 · Deo Alrashid from Dada Design Architects, talks with our CEO Nathalie Mezza-García about his most recent floating project, "Current in Currents" inspired by his backgrounds, all the way from the Philippines merged with technology, one of Deos main design pillars. Different ecologically sourced and environmentally friendly materials had been utilised to prototype his magnificent shapes; his design couldn't be more comprehensive with its surroundings, making it unique and attractive. As a winner of the Rougerie Competition,AlRashid is a promoter of technologies and clean energy sources in architectural creations, or in this case aquatecture, standing out and setting standards on the subject.
#floatingcities #seaphia #floatingarchitecture #aquatecture
E04. Migración Colombia - Balsa Migratoria
22 AUG 2022
E05. Sustainable and High-tech Aquatecture Projects by Giancarlo Zema Architects
23 AUG 2022 · Regulations take an important role when defining the reach of new technologies, currencies and floating developments. In this episode Guiseppe Carusi from Giancarlo Zema Design Group talks with our CEO Nathalie Mezza-García about the challenges that planning over water take and explains how with the help of energy efficient systems and following current design tendencies they generate an organic synergy between the environment and their designs. Looking forward to what's coming, Carusi states that the future of floating is underwater, opening even more doors for new ideas and creative possibilities to materialise.
@giancarlozema @carusi.giuseppe #floatingcities #seaphia #floatingarchitecture #aquatecture
E07. Seaphia Team's Story
23 AUG 2022 · Two of our head team members, Nathalie Mezza-García CEO and Nataly Velasquez Rodriguez, Executive Business Partner at Seaphia talk about the different and limitless possibilities floating projects offer. As the centre of the conversation, sustainability takes an important role, due to the floating context and the special care marine environment should imply. Sharing their journey at Seaphia, and how they came together so far is an example of the passion they put into making projects alive/a reality!
@seaphiagroup #floatingcities #seaphia #floatingarchitecture #aquatecture
E08. HM-D Architecture - Sustainable Architecture Projects
23 AUG 2022 · Leo De Watts from HM-D, a business consultancy group that manages to bring out a diverse variety of projects, speaks with our CEO Nathalie Mezza-García about the implementation of innovative construction solutions and how they result in/ turn into amazing results. From floating to in land projects HM-D, gives relevance/primacy to having a positive environmental and socio-economic impact in all of them no matter the branch. Making each one a unique piece that tells an individual story.
#floatingcities #seaphia #floatingarchitecture #aquatecture #sustainablearchitecture #amphibiousbuldings
E06. Hilary Sample from MOS Architects
23 AUG 2022 · Our CEO Nathalie Mezza-García and Hilary Sample from MOS Architecture, discuss the design process involved in the making of a floating house sketched and constructed by the firm. Located on the edge of one of the great lakes, and as a part of the Canadian Shield, the site and the building blend together with the landscape making possible such a magnificent and unique floating project. The technologies applied and the locally sourced materials used in the construction process make the house program function perfectly (or flawlessly) with the habitat that surrounds it serving the particular needs of its owners.
#floatingcities #seaphia #floatingarchitecture #aquatecture #floatinghouses
E09. Kurupira - Floating Construction in the Amazons by Ahuvia Nevó
30 AUG 2022 · Nataly Velasquez Rodriguez, Executive Business Partner at Seaphia and Ahuvia Nevó creator of Kurupira, a floating facility located 2 km into the Colombian Amazonian River, talk about the process it took to design and develop the project. Made up almost entirely from local Ceiba Wood, Nevó tells what were the advantages of building a floating structure in the middle of the Amazonas river. He also tells how the public has responded to the project, and what problems it's had for fitting/not fitting with contemporary touristic regulations.
#floatingcities #seaphia #floatingarchitecture #aquatecture #floatingprojects #floatingbuildings
E10. Ice Cubed Co-working by Monolight Studio
12 SEP 2022 · Monolight’s ice-cubed shaped co-working was designed to meet the pandemic social distancing restrictions. Each “ice cube” is a pod where people can go and work without sharing breathing air with other visitors. The pods were designed by Agnieszka Białek from Monolight Studio, and its design certainly takes organic design to a next level! I this episode, Anieska tells our CEO, Nathalie Mezza-García, what designing through pandemic constraints entailed. And while the pods were first created to serve one person at a time, they are of course suitable for multiple people in various aquatic environments.
#floatingcities #seaphia #floatingarchitecture #aquatecture #floatingprojects #floatingbuildings
Floating projects and aquatecture expert, Nathalie Mezza-Garcia, interviews the top architects, developers, designers, and engineers floating architecture (aquatecture) field from all across the world. Here you'll learn about the coolest...
show more
Floating projects and aquatecture expert, Nathalie Mezza-Garcia, interviews the top architects, developers, designers, and engineers floating architecture (aquatecture) field from all across the world. Here you'll learn about the coolest latest floating homes, neighborhoods, and even floating city plans. You'll also learn about how every day more buildings and structures on water are planned with a flood-resilient component.
show less
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