Floating structure for support of mixed use facilities

#This invention relates to an infrastructure that permits the building of communities in the middle of the ocean, and more particularly to a floating facility designed to maximize living areas while at the same time housing hundreds of individuals participating in the community.

#There has been a suggestion that colonies or communities should be provided outside the reach of territorial governmental jurisdictions so that the community can develop its own rules and governance free of the strictures of traditional governmental regulations.

#It has been a goal of such communities to try out new forms of government to be able to govern the populace and also to present business opportunities such as for aquaculture, pharmaceutical production and the warehousing of software and the like.

#These and other features of the subject invention will be better understood in connection with the Detailed Description and in conjunction with the Drawings of which:

#FIG. 1 is a diagrammatic illustration of a floating structure to provide maximum sustainable living space in the middle of the ocean in which various decks are cantilevered and supported with stays from columns which project up through the structure, with the columns being buoyant to tension the stays and also to lift the entire structure above the surface of the ocean;

#FIG. 2 is a diagrammatic illustration of the structure of FIG. 1 illustrating the use of stays to support lightweight cantilevered surfaces or decks which surround a central lightweight deck or surface between the columns of FIG. 1;

#Referring now to FIG. 1, in order to provide sustainable living at sea for almost indefinite periods of time, it is important to be able to provide a community which is self-sustaining by having a sufficient amount of real estate in the middle of the ocean in which to carry on ones daily business.

#In order to provide such a community with quarters, a structure 10 is floated on the surface of the ocean and is provided with a number of decks 12 which are supported on buoyant columns 14, with the decks being secured to the columns and being cantilevered from the columns as illustrated.

#Central to the subject structure are stays 20, which run from the columns to outlying portions of the decks or to structures on the decks such as buildings 22 which are supported by stays 24 in one embodiment.