Autonomous reserve housing in the aquatic environment: Designing a self-sustainable floating module

Abstract

The article is devoted to the study of design aspects of the innovative housing of the future: an autonomous reserve floating module. The leading approach to the study is the analysis of implemented and conceptual precedents and experimental modeling. The analysis of precedents revealed the main parameters that an autonomous floating home in the aquatic environment should possess. The identified parameters affect the structure of the dwelling at three levels: layout, operational and technological infill, and the outer shell of the building. The layout parameters are flexibility, versatility, transformability. Operational and technological parameters are the production of resources, water purification, recycling, computerization of production and tracking systems. Shell parameters are: sealed, capsular, biomorphic. The identified parameters were combined within the experimental design model, which can be implemented at the present stage of the development of society. The experimental model has an additional parameter: the ability to connect individual modules into an autonomous network. The research material may be useful for theoretical and practical developments in the field of designing autonomous dwellings for extreme environments.