Panama SeaPods, Dutch eco-homes and UAE islands — welcome to the world of floating homes – The National
- Date: 08-Oct-2022
- Source: The National
- Sector:Real Estate
- Country:UAE
Panama SeaPods, Dutch eco-homes and UAE islands — welcome to the world of floating homes – The National
From Dubai’s Marasi water villas and the Seahorses off the emirate’s coast, to a floating city in the Maldives and the world’s first community of SeaPods in Panama, homes on water are rapidly becoming a reality. The Dutch are largely credited as being the pioneers of this format, and it was an architect from the European nation, Koen Olthuis, who designed the latest crop of pods for Panama’s Ocean Builders.
While one of the Panamanian pods recently experienced a pump malfunction, causing it to tilt, the company was quick to rectify the issue and clarify that it was the lack of a back-up system on the prototype SeaPod that sparked the incident. Not only was nobody injured, but a statement from Ocean Builders read that nobody even got their feet wet.
A SeaPod prototype in Panama experienced a pump malfunction in September 2022. AP Photo
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