Floating architecture can be introduced as an innovative solution to climate change challenges in the built environment rather than a hypothesis. Floating architecture creates a new architectural style and connects an interface between offshore renewable energy and the built environment. Living and working on water itself is neither new nor innovative. A floating building can be defined as a structure for living/working space that floats on the water with a floatation system, is moored in a fixed place, doesn’t include a watercraft for navigation, and has a premises service system (electricity, water/sewage and city gas) served through the connection by permanent supply/return lines between floating building and service station on close land, or has self-supporting service facilities for itself. Floating buildings on the water are endurable to a change in sea or river water level and can be relocated to different places when necessary due to easy movable characteristics. Ocean space colonization is one way in which engineers, architects, and urban planners have been engaging with the challenge of providing more space, minerals, and energy resources for people. The selection of projects explores the use of large-scale floating structures in an innovative and environmentally-sensitive way.
