SEASCRAPER
Team
Name: Ernesto Maximilian Mulch
Nationality: German
Institution / Company: ernestomulch.com
-HONOURABLE MENTION of Powerless City Competition
‘Like a whale floating with the stream in search of food
SEASCRAPER
floats with the energy of the thermohaline circulation and transforms itself into an urban organism.’
SEASCRAPER is the idea of a mobile city sculpture that provides power and food to its inhabitants autarkically by utilising the energy of the global conveyor belt.
Most cities of the 21th century are still based on an antiquated, egocentric self-concept requiring convenience goods and energy to be delivered from the periphery. For ecological reasons though, cities of future centuries will have to be capable of managing their food and energy supplies by themselves, as local and autarkically as possible. Converting the kinetic energy of the ocean conveyor belt makes SEASCRAPER a self-sufficient urban organism that forms a symbiotic relationship with both its inhabitants and the surrounding environment likewise. SEASCRAPER is structured in three sections: The living area containing housing, hospitality and business areas, child and health care facilities as well as cultural and educational institutions. The energy city that consists of public gardens and vertical farms. And the hydroelectric turbine that uses water flow to generate energy for the city, while the water is being filtered from trash disposed into the ocean.
#Cinetic energy harvesting #Hydropower #Alternative energy sources #Urban Mobility #Integrated energy production systems
