Malaysian architect Sarli Adre Bin Sarkum (Sarli Adre Bin Sarkum) has offered the project of the many-storeyed building “growing” downwards, but this time not in bowels of the Earth, and in depths of ocean. In spite of the fact that this project of a building hO2 + hardly when will be realized, its singularity and novelty have deserved the special award of competition 2010 Skyscraper Competition, spent by magazine eVolo.
The top floors of an underwater skyscraper hO2 + are above sea level, and inhabited, industrial and office premises settle down on underwater floors. The sunlight getting through thickness of water, can provide comprehensible level of illumination on the top underwater floors of a building which is shipped in depth of ocean on the distance equivalent to height of the highest land buildings-skyscrapers.
On all length of an underwater part of a building the long flexible “feelers” which are carrying out at once of some functions settle down. They serve as illumination sources, develop energy from energy of fluctuations of sea water and even can serve some kind of “the oars” providing change of orientation of a building and its movement on small distance.
From all points of view the building hO2 + is completely self-sufficient. It develops energy enough, using energy of the Sun, a wind and sea waves, in a building the quantity of foodstuff, and on top, surface is grown up sufficient for inhabitants, circles the small cattle-breeding farm and the wood planting serving by vacation spot for inhabitants, working on underwater floors settles down even.
Below, in the most extreme part of a building, there is a ballast cargo and balancing tanks with which help the building hO2 + is kept in vertical position. The big weight of a building causes its immunity to flaws and influence of storm sea waves which not in a condition even it to rock.