The Meriens Vessel Shaped like a Giant Manta Ray Could be The Future of Luxury Cruise Ships and Floating Cities
Would you want to live in a floating city? The 3,000 feet Meriens vessel shaped like a giant manta ray could be the home to 7,000 people without producing any waste.
The vessel could also be the future of luxury cruise ships and floating cities. With a futuristic design, this floating city concept could be the perfect home for those who love living near the sea.
This could be our future home, who knows?
Designed by French architect Jacques Rougerie, the vessel is shaped like a manta ray and could be an inspiration for cruise ships or floating residence of the future.
Why would it make a good inspiration?
It is all in its radical design; it could be nearly 2,950ft long and 1,650ft wide, and will have a capacity of 7,000 occupants.
For comparison, the world’s largest cruise ship, Royal Carribean’s Allure of the Seas, is 1,187 feet long and measures only 213 feet at its widest point.
Mr Rougerie, who is celebrated for his imaginative designs for land, sea and space, envisions says the vessel would be used as a university research vessel.
It would be carry 7,000 researchers, professors and students for long-term stays, with living quarters, classrooms, laboratories and areas for leisure and sport, The Creators Project reported.
City of Meriens would be completely sustainable and autonomous, with the ability to run on renewable energy and produce zero waste. Which will be even more great and is a less thing to worry about.
The inner lagoon would accommodate marine research vessels, including Mr Rougerie’s SeaOrbiter, an ocean skyscraper and floating lab which is currently under construction for an estimated $50million (£32million).
He coined the term ‘meriens’, which he says is a French equivalent to the term ‘oceanite’.
Mr Rougerie told radio station France Inter that he sees himself as a ‘merien’ – someone who is at one with the sea.
‘I feel very, very good underwater. I feel different. Another type of imagination is awakened in me as soon as I am underwater,’ he told the radio station, as quoted by The Creators Project.
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