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Image: The image below shows a large community. Each red platforms is the center of 7 platforms in a circle, each yellow platform signifies a living area platform. Each green platform denotes Agriculture.
Other Community platforms:
Although each neighborhood will contain residential,
industrial and agricultural and civic platforms, each community will need
marinas and docks to accept ocean-going vessels, single industry specific
platforms such as dry docks.
The initial phase will consist of platforms that have their seaside areas near sea level. Later as communities are built and more specialization of platform can be included, marina platforms for the purpose of containing boats and sailing vessels, much like the marinas on the coasts, providing harborage for vessels and even acting as homes for those who desire to live on their vessel.
Image: A simple ring of platforms with an open center. This layout would be used as temporary and even long term marina, especially if individual floating homes are used. The interior could also be used for the support system for Bio-Rock grown platforms.
Marinas will be platforms that are lower to the ocean
surface; radiating outward into the sea will be floating piers and docks.
Surrounding those will be floating breakwaters – most likely in the form of
half submerged rectangular platforms on which bio-rock formations and corals
are grown. The idea is to act as a breakwater for waves creating a lagoon or
bay for vessels. A semi ring of platforms could be used to create a harbor or
bay.
Eventually as Oceanic City develops a ring of 11 platforms
that would form a circle if there were 12 would serve, as a sheltered harbor
inside of the ring floating piers would jut out to provide docking space for
small private craft. The ring would be able to hold a neighborhood inside, a
circle of 7 platforms.
The use of Platforms as shipyards will provide a unique form
of dry dock. The vessel will be built on the platform and the platform will
sink like a submarine. The lowest area where a vessel is being built becomes
submerged, the vessel is floated free and then the ballast tanks of the
platform are pumped dry raising the whole unit out of the water. Several plat
forms joined together could form a larger shipyard where larger vessels could
be built.
Image: The layout for an airport. Note this one is 12,559' long (two miles) by a half mile wide. Although initial landing strip would be shorter.
Oceanic Airport:
Special consideration will be needed to provide connection
to the outside world. Although boats and ships will mostly comprise
inter-community transport, helicopters and light aircraft may also prove
useful. It is expected that at least one airport will be built. It will be
composed of standard platforms strung 13 long and 3 wide. The length will be
11,258 feet long and as narrow as 2000’ wide with its greatest width being
2500’ wide. Sufficient for two airstrips able to accommodate commercial jets,
and holding all of the equipment and supporting facilities that such an airport
would need.
Airport Platforms will be taller than other platforms. Aside
from the 30’ draw containing ballast tanks and foam water tight compartments
for buoyancy and the 20 foot deck to raise the surface deck above high waves,
another two decks will be added raising the landing strip higher providing two
more decks each having an area of 22,516,000 square feet (516.89
acres or 0.8 square miles) it is natural that aircraft storage, aircraft
manufacture and a majority of the functions that a modern airport perform will
take place beneath the main deck.
The lowest deck will have a height of 20 feet, less the
ceiling and floor space providing 15’ of height. The second deck will be 25’ in
depth providing a ceiling space of 20’ feet. It is possible that the third deck
will be 35 to 45 feet in height providing 30 to 40 feet height in that
area. The over all height of the
airport from its main top deck to the surface of the ocean will be between 80
and 90 feet tall. That is about eight stories tall. Although that may seem very high, considering the length and width
of the airport platform connected all together it will be marginally thin. The
overall depth of the platform will be around 120 feet.
These will take up only a fraction of the available “land
area” below decks, the area would be used for the extraction of minerals and
metals from the sea, possibly hydroponics and artificially lit agriculture. The
lowest deck height below will be about 15 feet high from deck to ceiling
providing ample room for livestock like chickens, goats, etc. Of course the
utilization of Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion (OTEC) power plant technologies
will provide power and fresh water and even air-conditioning, allowing
feasibility of moving large volumes of air mass through the enclosed level.
(See Farming) The second and third decks being 20 and up to 40 feet in height
will provide room not only for animal and plant life but also for the
manufacture of taller structures and vehicles.
Along the length of the Airport openings or doors to the
ocean will allow for the transport of products from the Airport to shipping
vessels and for the loading and unloading of ships and boats shuttling
passengers between the communities and the Airport.
Although it is expected that the airport will start off
smaller to accommodate smaller aircraft, should Oceanic City become a tourist
attraction a larger airport able to accommodate larger aircraft will be
necessary.
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