Floating Community
OwnerCharles I. Weeinventor
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Abstract
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.
Claims20
A transportable structure kit for use in assembling floatable communities in a variety of configurations, comprising:
- a pair of floatable exterior container shells attachable to each other to form an enclosed transportable container in a transportation mode, the pair of exterior container shells separable as a top portion shell and a bottom portion shell, and at least one exterior side of the bottom portion shell configured for detachably fastening to at least one floating platform;
- a plurality of column members detachably mounted between the top portion shell and the bottom portion shell in at least four corners of each shell, securing the top portion shell apart from the bottom portion shell in an assembled mode;
- a plurality of panel sections detachably mounted between the bottom portion shell and the top portion shell in the assembled mode;
- wherein the plurality of column members and plurality of panel sections are configured for repetitive assembly and disassembly, and entirely storable within the enclosed transportable container in the transportation mode.
A transportable structure kit for use in assembling floatable communities in a variety of configurations, comprising:
- a roof section and a hull section attachable to each other to form an enclosed container in a packed form, each hull section having at least four sides wherein at least one side is removably connectable to at least one independently floatable platform;
- a plurality of column members detachably mountable between the roof section and the hull section, forming a height of livable space between the roof section and the hull section in an assembled form;
- a plurality of panel sections detachably mountable between the roof section and the hull section;
- and
- a photovoltaic system coupled to the roof section;
- wherein the column members, panel sections and photovoltaic system are storable inside the enclosed container formed by the roof section and the hull section during the packed form.
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 configured for detachably fastening to at least one floating platform;
- 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;
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- fastening the at least one floating platform to at least one exterior side of the hull portion.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.