-Matias Volco Ramform Islands archipelago Marinea
This thread is to visually demonstrate how an entire floating city would develop gradually out of a single concrete cell:
see [more pictures][1]: http://floatingislands.discoursehosting.net/t/ramform-archipelago-of-floating-islands/28/6
[1]: http://floatingislands.discoursehosting.net/t/ramform-archipelago-of-floating-islands/28/6
Lens Cluster
Big lens or plate or sphere with rooftop park inside (which might indicate earlier smaller lens) Big enough to contain fully sheltered baseball ground.
Lens with radiating docks and [sea train of sea houses][1] communicating to bigger dome.
Ramforms inside ramforms, impossible to tell which was the original structure, diverse seaworthy shapes and their harbors will coalesce much like the uncertain geographical origins of Venice.
Highly urban city and a maritime (industrial&leisure) port, with highly dense buildings and very sparse private alternatives
A more planned-looking city, also an uncertain cluster of similar functioning shapes, can also be conceived. For instance in this city plan we need to move the marina in the upper left corner farther away and replace it by prime sheltered floating real estate.
[1]: http://floatingislands.discoursehosting.net/t/floating-family-sized-houses-safety-first/27
A Ramform Lens city at an undetermined or intermediate stage of growth pictured “entirely” and somewhat streamlined:
Helicopter view:
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Nice.
The rooms on the side look great.
@elwartowski taking last picture as reference: the ones to the left in first plane, or the “low rises” 5 story buildings on the back next to the lens?
The ones on the left, the “pods” are always good. The 5 story building is great, I can see stepping out onto that looking over the marina. Quite cool.
good to know. se we can afford to make the low rises more futuristic and curvy too
Bob was asking for that at the last meeting too based on your older model. Otherwise it’s wasted space.
Absolutely
If we keep the area clean enough, we can have a couple of paradise coves in the cul de sac with sand made out of pulverized glass - sponsored by a rhum company wishing to contribute to the environment by recycling empty bottles.
I understand this design is still not perfect (the buildings should be lower, three stories and a sundeck not five), perhaps as such (but with a dome/lens)
As the floating city grows one side could specialize in heavy industrial and logistical activities while the other can focus on residential, light commercial and leisure.
My understanding Mati, is that ramform will be the model of the future as we move into deep water. I thought the long one to be more stable as the wider wings would have a larger resistance to deal with. Bowed as you have design it swept back wings to encompass a larger area just made sense. I intended to discuss the future of our project showing the ramform. The lens is experimental. It satisfies the emotional safety to those afraid of sinking. The lens can’t sink. But that is not the future. Recall, I also suggested the ramforms be lined up as train cars instead of side by side? This will allow the separate ramforms to be bridged and act as one larger unit.
Liked also the added apartments/office space on the walls. Even though the big ramforms are for a future expansion of the pilot, it is helpful to sell the project by showing and talking about our expected growth. As we develop our full plan, the public interest will continue to grow. Once the web pages (including the video) are finished, the real fun will begin. Radio interviews, press releases, forums, blogs and articles. We will drive the attention of the media to us and then invite them to do any story that interest them as a part of our project.
If you want to see how effective we are, watch the value of bitcoin when we announce that our currency will be in bitcoin. (Hint; buy what you can of it before we announce that.) However, it’s this added interest in our program that will build the deep-sea ramform. Your continued work is very much appreciated.
I don’t know who to ask for pics anymore but at some point I would like to have a scene of a floating gas station, fueling a boat and taking on drinking water. Now that is a normal occurrence at any marina with those services so there is undoubtedly already still shots for sale on the internet somewhere. So if someone sees one, please let me know, and if someone wants to make one as part of the Marina pics, that’s good also. Thanks.
Yes that is indeed a normal occurance in a marina and can be easily achieved by collecting relevant photographs and putting them in context of a clear point being conveyed.
With photoshop it can be combined with the image of a dome or lens in the background. That service we discussed some three weeks ago in one of our recorded meetings coming to the conclusion that we could either or have Ben do it, only he doesn’t work with jpgs or pngs.or buy those services from two outside contractors for 0.19 BTC
The lens itself cannot harbor a marina, only some gregarious real estate.
The shape of a lens with breakwaters to shelter the marina you mention was decided on August 6th
One suggestion for the pics in general, it’s sunny down there, dark skies are rainy. Can we have sun shine and blue skies? And Mati, that floating beach idea, that is genius. Right in front of the lens with beach chairs giving more surface connecting the two wings. Small shuttle boats on either side of the beach. When ever you and Wil start on the actual construction designs, I hope you will add that floating beach.
Yes we can have sunnier skies, and we can add some vehicles, some billboards on the buildings, etc
As I was saying in the email, these are “mock ups” that I do in 5 minutes each out of many clay models thought out over months.
When we select final pics to be used for commercial purposes those can be in fact tailored exactly to a marketing plan, with only some outside specialist help: very inexpensive photoediting for the pull outs - while the video would be entirely tailored to what we decide.
Once a selection of 6 views and a simply path for the video walkthrough is chosen, I can render the 6 images at high resolution with the skies and add ons of everybody’s chosing, and then have someone photo shop some other elements that already exist in reality such as people and marina activity.
(water can be turquoise instead of black, accidental effect of making the sky blue instead of textured)
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see the future:
Yes, this is more to the point that I hoped the real project would look like. Fuller of course but… this is my vision
There are 70 sailboats and a total of some 100 vessels in that picture. A lens alone cannot sustain that traffic even if it was within a natural harbor.
But I know what you mean, fill the empty spaces in the image (not the marina) with pictures that convey a specific marketing message. This is where photoediting comes in:
It might turn out to be 95% of the visual work. Many developments are showcased using only stock video of the lifestyle they try to present.
Mati, the morning jpg is perfect, better if you can add a beach in front of the lens… But I vote that this one be used for the full dressing. I didn’t see it before posting my last comments. This one talks to me so I think it will reach others as well.
Absolutely! Maybe a green slope cascading in those two corners on the side of the lens onto a beach, and a “main” jetty extending from the lens acting as a welcome pad. I’ll render those in the morning. You guys could make a simple txt entry (a post) with different scripts ideas to brainstorm for some minutes and vote as we just did with the logo which we now have 
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