Ocean Community - Prefab Floating Home Concept

Red Dot Award 2019 Winner

Design: Wojciech Morsztyn, Poland

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. 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. Small floating and sailing modules are located 800m from the coastlines, close enough for everyday life on land.




This future mobility concept is a fully autonomous system that easily provide facilities similar to that on land. Autonomous storage modules are created in the stationary centre; they can be easily released and attached to the units by the requested users. Another advantage of the Ocean Community system is its ability to harness sustainable energy such as water, sun and wind. Ocean Community could also be used in the commercial market such as hotels, touristic spots and other habitats.

Small Prefab Floating Home by KODA

KODA Light Float integrates the small prefab house in floating pontoons enabling extended waterfront properties

About KODA
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The KODA Light Float opens up the opportunity of using urban or countryside waterfront space. The architecture, design and engineering skills combined enable living near a favourite yacht harbour, on a private lake or on an urban canal.

The versatility of prefab modular housing concept makes the KODA Light Float either a harbour café, artist’s studio, not to mention a summer retreat or a fisherman’s dream.

With its spacious comfort and high ceilings, the fully equipped small prefab floating home has a facade-sized illuminating window. The floating KODA house gives an atmosphere of a mediterranean villa.

Sustainably finished with plywood inside, the KODA Light is as minimalist as it is cosy. The floating terrace creates even more luxury space to be blend into the favourite surroundings.





KODA is a factory-built house and delivered as turnkey.

A standard equipped KODA Light includes an openspace living room, a full-size sleeping area, a shower room with toilet, a kitchen and a wooden terrace – all that on spacious, yet compact 25.8 m2.

The KODA Light has maintained its insulation and strength for year around living in heat and frost, while enabling stacking two units of its own kind on the roof.

The small prefab floating home KODA Light Float offers the opportunity of choosing the most suitable exterior finish as well as the terrace and border materials to your environment. The first being either plywood or timber, the latter offering options between spruce terrace and pine border, or larch terrace with glass border.

Technical details

Dimension of platform	6.0 × 12.0 m
Floats 2pc	HD Pontoon 1.07× 2.4× 12m
Freeboard with decking	0.7m
Tanks 2pc	3.3 m3
Weight of platform	31 tons
Load capacity	4.1 kN/m² (30 tons)
Allowed max wave height	0.3m
Allowed current speed	1 m/sec
Allowed ice condition	Allowed static ice load, ice moving is not allowed
Mass	ca. 10 tons
Net area	25.8 sqm / 277.7 sqft
Area of building perimetre	28.8 sqm / 310.0 sqft
External dimensions	L 7226 mm / 23.7 ft W 3930 mm / 12.9 ft H 3990 mm / 13.1 ft
Internal dimensions	L 5858 mm / 19.2 ft W 3416 mm / 11.2 ft H 3323 mm / 10.9 ft

Structural

Timber frame structure

Mineral wool layer of insulation

200 mm/0.66 ft in walls; 250 mm/0.82 ft in ceiling and floor

Three-ply tempered glass

Snow load 400 kg / sqm

Interior finish plywood 12 mm / 0.039 ft

Exterior finish timber cladding or plywood

Engineering

Electric floor heating

80 l electric boiler

VENTS ventilation system

Water connection DN15

Sewage connection 110mm / 0.36 ft

Electrical connection 20A 3F