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Architects have been seriously improving their underwater building designs. Some of the submerged structures beneath the waves are totally amazing. The big elephant in the room is expense. If you can afford the construction, you end up with something that the general public would love to experience. Enough to make it a paying venture.
Submerged designs with style
Here are just a few of the “stellar examples” of submerged structure designs to capture your imagination. In the Maldives, for instance, there’s the world’s largest underwater restaurant. On the small end of the scale, check out “a community of luxury floating condos in Dubai that put beachfront property to shame.”
The Water Discus Hotel in Dubai is based around two sets of discs, one above water and one below. The subsurface disc plunges 10 meters below the surface and features “21 hotel rooms, as well as an underwater dive center and bar.” Meanwhile, the surface disc houses “a restaurant, spa, and recreation area.”
The next of the underwater designs lies off the the coast of Noli, about an hour’s drive from Genoa in northwestern Italy. There, “nine transparent plastic bubbles appear to hover underwater—their trapped air fragrant with the scent of herbs.”
Nemo’s Garden “is an experiment meant to test the viability of underwater greenhouses.” The series of submerged biospheres “consist of plastic domes rigged up with hydroponic equipment, plant seeds, and air-circulating fans.”
Planet Ocean Underwater Hotel Florida wants their designs to be known as the “World’s first fully self-contained affordable mini-luxury underwater hotel.” They put prefabricated and modular technologies to good use to provide “a cheaper, quicker, and eco-friendlier embarkment.”
The location for construction and assembly will be based in Key West, Florida. After it’s built, “the hotel would be barged at an undisclosed location in the middle of the Caribbean Sea.” From there, “the vessel would then circle the globe to visit some of the prime marine ecosystems.”
Dining with an undersea view
If your yacht happens to be sailing near the Lhaviyani Atoll you might want to make dinner reservations. Hurawalhi Island Resort in the Maldives offers the world’s largest underwater restaurant. Guests of the steel structure with a transparent, acrylic dome get to watch “marine life passing by.”
It occupies a shallow coral reef and was carefully installed to “avoid impacting the surrounding environment.” The dome “was designed by MJ Murphy, an Auckland architectural firm known for their innovative and immersive aquariums designs.”
Off the coast of Dubai, where the water is blue and the money is green, they have an entire chain of manmade islands called the “Heart of Europe.” Richard Branson owns the island representing Great Britain.
They now also have the “$2.8 million floating home” called Floating Seahouse. The prototype worked so well they have larger designs for “a whopping $12 million.”
Manta resort wants you to “switch off your noisy, pressurized, polluted electronic world and enter a completely different one.” As a “sentient human being with simple needs – sunshine, fresh sweet-smelling air, natural food, a pristine comfortable bed and friendly company to care for you and yours.”
The remote island hideaway conservation area boasts the Underwater Room. The designs allow you to “experience the fascinating shifting lights of the water, the ebb and flow of the tide and subject to the curiosity of the fishy inhabitants of another world.“
