Bloom – a conceptual design by French architectural firm Sitbon Architectes has been selected as a finalist in the ‘architecture and weather’ category of the Architizer A+ Awards – a semi submersible spherical lab and garden tethered by cables to the ocean floor.
As well as desalinating seawater for use by a resident staff of marine biologists and researchers, the structure is designed to cultivate C02 consuming, oxygen producing microscopic marine phytoplankton and monitor ocean chemistry to provide advance warning of tsunami and other natural events.
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