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Headline: The 'Ocean Community' Responds To Rising Sea Levels With Luxury Houseboats

Caption: These striking house boats aren't just stylish and luxurious - they could provide people with a better way to live in a wetter world. Ideally, humans would figure out a way from preventing the rise of ocean sea levels and its potentially disastrous effects on coastal populations. But if that doesn't happen, rising Polish designer Wojciech Morsztyn's "Ocean Community" concept offers a an alternative solution in a colony of live-in vessels that float no more than 800 meters off the coast of a city. Connected via walkways, the floating pods make for autonomous living, with the ability to store and filter water, channel airflow for cooling and harvest energy from the sun and wind. "In the next 10 to 15 years, rising sea levels could bring irreplaceable changes to our environment. Ocean Community creates mobile domestic naval units and transforms the ocean into a habitable space," Morsztyn said of his design. "The creation of these new structures will serve as fully functional living spaces connected with existing land infrastructure so that new ocean communities become a natural extension of coastal cities." Morsztyn imagines these structures creating small floating and sailing modules located 800m from the coastlines, close enough for everyday life on land. Each two-level pod runs off a combination of sustainable and electric energy and features panoramic views of the sea and coastline, neutral colour palettes and minimalist wood furnishings, making them a potentially lucrative property expansion for hotel and resort chains. Morsztyn imagines his concept being implemented by 2035 and says that with further investigation – and the time for the necessary technology to decrease in price – costings could be as low as £150,000 per unit. Ocean Community recently won a 2019 Red Dot Design Award by an expert jury in the area of design concepts. **PLEASE INCLUDE DESIGNER'S SOCIAL MEDIA ACCOUNTS IN COPY: Instagram @morsztyn_design and Facebook @morsztyndesign**

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