Floating community
View Patent ↗A sustainable floating community based on a mass-produced modular, pre-fabricated kit of parts referred to as floating modular units. The floating modular units are designed to allow for various needs while remaining simple to deliver and assemble by hand in remote destinations prone to volatile shifts in water levels and currents. The floating modular units are ready to assemble, can be erected for use on land and bodies of water, are easily collapsible for transport, thereby serving as highly adaptable transportable structures.
1. A method of making a floatable shelter structure from a transportable structure kit, the kit comprising: a pair of exterior container shells attachable to each other to form an enclosed transportable container, the pair of exterior container shells separable as a roof portion and a hull portion, and one or more exterior sides of the hull portion fastened directly to a hinge plate connector; the one or more exterior sides of the hull portion configured for detachably fastening to at least one floating platform by the hinge plate connector; a plurality of detachably mountable column members; and a plurality of detachably mountable panels; the method comprising:
connecting a first end of at least one of the mountable column members to a top surface of the hull portion;
connecting a second end of the at least one of the mountable column members to a bottom of the roof portion;
laying a set of the plurality of mountable panels adjacent to one another over the top surface of the hull portion;
mounting at least one of the mountable panels to a mounting track located on a perimeter of the hull portion;
fastening the at least one floating platform to at least one exterior side of the hull portion via the hinge plate connector fastened directly to the exterior side of the hull portion and to the floating platform; and
connecting the floatable shelter structure with an anchor assembly comprising an elastic rode by connecting a first end of the elastic rode to the anchor assembly, and connecting a second end of the elastic rode to a bracket, the bracket is attached to the exterior side of the hull portion, wherein the anchor assembly anchors into earth and the elastic rode contracts or stretches with a change in water level.
2. The method of claim 1 , further comprising interlocking the at least one floating platform to another floating platform by a fastening means.
3. The method of claim 2 , wherein the fastening means is a pontoon connector pin.
4. The method of claim 1 , wherein the step of fastening the at least one floating platform via the hinge plate connector includes fastening the hinge plate connector directly to both a vertical surface of the at least one exterior side of the hull portion and to a horizontal surface of the at least one floating platform.
5. The method of claim 1 , further comprising securing an interlocking guardrail to the at least one floating platform.
6. The method of claim 1 , further comprising mounting a photovoltaic panel to the roof portion.
7. The method of claim 1 , further comprising erecting a canopy on the at least one floating platform.
8. The method of claim 1 , further comprising installing a water cistern and a purification module in the hull portion.
9. The method of claim 1 , further comprising installing a photovoltaic system battery and a system inverter in the hull portion.
10. The method of claim 1 , further comprising installing an aquaponics farm on the at least one floating platform.
11. The method of claim 1 , further comprising installing a netting fish basin on the at least one floating platform.