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Thinking more on the design of Aquarius recently, I decided to put down some more specifics on my vision of the marine colony and the transformations it would have to undergo as it evolved to its full mid-ocean-capable colony scale. Initial Moored Phase: the initial founding structure most likely fixed moored to a shore point like a house boat or using fixed anchorage very close to shore, allowing access by suspended or floating walkways. Full Equatorial Colony Phase: the final stationary colony phase with an open sea location.

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  • On the Architecture of Aquarius
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  • Thinking more on the design of Aquarius recently, I decided to put down some more specifics on my vision of the marine colony and the transformations it would have to undergo as it evolved to its full mid-ocean-capable colony scale. Initial Moored Phase: the initial founding structure most likely fixed moored to a shore point like a house boat or using fixed anchorage very close to shore, allowing access by suspended or floating walkways. Full Equatorial Colony Phase: the final stationary colony phase with an open sea location.
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  • Thinking more on the design of Aquarius recently, I decided to put down some more specifics on my vision of the marine colony and the transformations it would have to undergo as it evolved to its full mid-ocean-capable colony scale. As I described in the Aquarius section of my personal version of TMP, I proposed that the Aquarius Rising stage of the original TMP be replaced by the direct founding of Aquarius as one or more small floating communities in sheltered water coastal locations which would be intended to grow incrementally until they reached the necessary scale to support independent living in mid-ocean conditions. I suggested that these would be founded primarily as residential real estate development ventures but also with an option to pursue industrial activities, though I've tended to see that as less potentially profitable in these locations than residential and commercial development. This scenario of development presents Aquarius with a great architectural challenge. Like an animal developing from pupae to adult forms, the colony must not merely expand in size but also transform in structural technology from the small static float systems of its early construction to the large scale pneumatically stabilized float system it needs to handle open sea conditions. And it must accommodate this transformation incrementally. Not only is there a transition of structural systems here, but also a transition to different climates as the initial founding locations may have very different climate conditions from its ultimate equatorial locations. Thus we can anticipate Aquarius evolving through the following structural phases or stages of development; Initial Moored Phase: the initial founding structure most likely fixed moored to a shore point like a house boat or using fixed anchorage very close to shore, allowing access by suspended or floating walkways. Free-Floating Phase: when fixed mooring is replaced by active station-keeping allowing for use in deeper bay conditions and with simple ferry service linking it to the shore. Platform Transition Phase: when the colony begins to switch from static float to Pneumatically Stabilized Platform (PSP) systems and assumes the final infrastructure architecture it will subsequently use. Migration Phase: when it begins to move out to the open sea in increments defined by the scale of transportation systems it supports. This has the potential to go in the direction of one of either two alternate final phases as marine colony or arcoliner depending on the choices of its residents. In this phase other originally separate colonies have the option to join up to produce a single larger colony. Also in this phase the question of political autonomy comes into play as distance from the shore affords progressively greater degrees of economic and regulatory independence from regional and national governments. Full Equatorial Colony Phase: the final stationary colony phase with an open sea location. Let's examine these phases in turn and the likely architectural strategies each will likely explore.
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