User:Vincecate/Tension circle house

Description

The idea is to use a tension circle to hold a house up. Having the flotation very wide makes it stable. The house does not need to be so far above the waves because it is floating up with the large waves. Does not need to go deep into the water because stability comes from the great width.

Detail

• Material issues - concrete, foam inside wall. Since it does not go far below the water foam and concrete should be ok. With foam cracks in the concrete will not be fatal.
• Tension members could be plastic rope or steel cable
• Inside of main column can be used for storage or general living space

Requirements Analysis

• Safety
  • It is very wide compared to boats and so should be very stable
  • Wall is filled with foam so essentially unsinkable
  • No active ballast controls so no chance of that going wrong

• Comfort
  • Should have a gentle motion on normal days but significant response to large waves.

• Cost
  • This should be one of the cheapest designs. It's very simple.

• Pretty
  • Looks nice. Could cover over wires and put down grass so you had a real floating island. Could be very pretty.

• Modular
  • Can make individual family sized units. Could have cable under a line of these so they floated together if sea anchor at one and and a large kite at the other.

• Cargo
• Since it floats up and down with waves like a boat, could be reasonable to dock a boat next to it with bumpers.

• Free Floating
  • Yes, could anchor also.

• Scalable
  • Scales up or down in size (height, diameter).

• Standards

• Mobile
  • Could lift it up and put in on a barge for long distance transport if bottom of column was flush with bottom of wall. For short or slow travel with move but use a lot of energy due to high drag shape.

• Draft
  • Very shallow draft.