So when you think of Haiti, what do you think about?Probably some sort of… disaster area? Well how about this instead – Tangram 3DS collaboratingwith Boston Architect / Designer E Kevin Schopfer together creating a floatingagricultural / light industrial city right off the shores of Haiti. What’s itcalled? Harvest City. Behold a 2 miles in diameter complex of tethered floatingmodules. Holy goodness gracious!
There are four zones in this project, communitiesinterconnected by a linear canal system. Each of the four major canals arefocused on building neighborhoods that consist of four story housing complexes.All along the outer perimeter are “one acre” crop circles with secondary feedercanals. The inside “harbor” is a city center with schools, administrativebuildings, community activities, and a general marketplace. The whole entirecomplex floats and will be cable secured down to the sea bed.
The low profile of the entire system, low draft, dead weightcapacity, and perimeter wave attenuators, hurricanes and typhoons will havelittle effect besides their collection of “much needed water harvesting.”Helpful! A breakwater will be in place to add to the city’s stability. AND ANDAND since they know that that silly earthquake is still fresh in everyone’sminds, (especially those directly affected by it,) the project includes usingall of the concrete rubble debris crushed down by the disaster as breakwaterfiller.
