The Creation and Perception of Underwater Built Environment or Architecture

3rd World Multidisciplinary Civil Engineering, Architecture, Urban Planning Symposium

土木建筑工程;文学

Bujniewicz, Zbyszko^1

Silesian University of Technology, Faculty of Architecture, Akademicka 7, Gliwice

44-100, Poland^1

关键词: Architectural space;    Built environment;    Construction activities;    Ground conditions;    Natural environments;    Normal pressure;    Physical conditions;    Underwater architectures;   

Others  :  https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1757-899X/471/7/072012/pdf
DOI  :  10.1088/1757-899X/471/7/072012

学科分类：土木及结构工程学

来源: IOP

【 摘 要 】

It is obvious that the underwater architectural space is formed as the result of the contemporary human construction activity. Underwater exist built environment available to the modern man. Below the surface of the water is a space that is shaped in a way that makes an architecture. The creation of underwater space has lot of ways and methods. There are a significant desperation between the imagination of designers and the real construction made underwater. Also the problem of different perception of underwater spaces are significant problem. Human body is used to live in the air at the normal pressure of 1at, and in the environment of air. The water is not the natural environment for people so there are important differences of perception of architectural space existing below the surface. Physical conditions of underwater facilities are very different from the ground conditions and it must be considered by visionaries and concept makers to have a chance to implement them. The space of water below the surface is full of stuff which is placed or constructed by the people. Most of them are very simple construction, placed for the recreation purpose. There are dozens of futuristic visions of underwater habitats, but at present times, it is not possible to notice that designers find the way of development, which follow their imaginations. There are not exist the futuristic structures or glass domes. Most of the constructed underwater architecture is available only with the SCUBA equipment. The author as the licenced architect (since 1994) and the designer of several objects connected with water, and the instructor of the Underwater Activity Committee trying to find the purpose and the reason why the human being must (or try) to live at the enemy environment of underwater.