A platform for research: civil engineering, architecture and urbanism
A platform for research: civil engineering, architecture and urbanism
A modular aquatic habitat, which may be suspended or otherwise located in a body of water, comprising a number of aquatic habitat modules 603 which in turn may comprise a symmetric pair of half-shells. The separation between the half-shells can be incrementally adjusted to limit the size of species able to inhabit a particular aquatic habitat module. These modules may be shaped such that the habitat comprises a tessellated structure which, when tightly packed, water is unable to pass through other than as permitted by the habitat, or may be spaced apart to provide fissure-like voids. Apertures in the modules provide fluid flow paths through and/or within the habitat, and the modules are hollow so as to allow retention of growth and/or planting media to support an aquatic ecosystem. The modules also provide habitats for marine creatures. The habitat is capable of indefinite expansion in three dimensions and of providing complex and varied void spaces and habitats by varying shell separations, module sizes, shapes, materials, surface structures and features, and spacings (or lack thereof) between adjacent modules.
A modular aquatic habitat, which may be suspended or otherwise located in a body of water, comprising a number of aquatic habitat modules 603 which in turn may comprise a symmetric pair of half-shells. The separation between the half-shells can be incrementally adjusted to limit the size of species able to inhabit a particular aquatic habitat module. These modules may be shaped such that the habitat comprises a tessellated structure which, when tightly packed, water is unable to pass through other than as permitted by the habitat, or may be spaced apart to provide fissure-like voids. Apertures in the modules provide fluid flow paths through and/or within the habitat, and the modules are hollow so as to allow retention of growth and/or planting media to support an aquatic ecosystem. The modules also provide habitats for marine creatures. The habitat is capable of indefinite expansion in three dimensions and of providing complex and varied void spaces and habitats by varying shell separations, module sizes, shapes, materials, surface structures and features, and spacings (or lack thereof) between adjacent modules.
Modular aquatic habitat
GALEN YARROW FULFORD (author)
2024-02-21
Patent
Electronic Resource
English
Aquatic Habitat Bottom Classification Using ADCP
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