HYDROPOD
A modular and Reconfiguring Watercraft
Hydropod is a proposal that looks at a multi-purpose urban platform on water. Water surface would be one of the main platforms to consider as living space.
Like cells in tissue, or
ants in a colony, the individual hydropod is highly capable, robust and adapts
to its environment with power in numbers,
the fleet will be able to adapt and change to current needs placed on the
system.
Each craft was designed with a hexagonal plan that utilizes three-fold rotational symmetry. This symmetry allows for various patterns of clustering, increasing the flexibility of the system.
As a stand-alone piece, the craft design was broken into two parts; the hull, including everything below the floor plane, and the deck, including everything above the floor plane. The hull, like the drivetrain of a car, is standard to all craft, while the deck can be switched out to change the function, or ‘mod’, of each craft when necessary.
Deck:
1. Brain - sensing/communicating
2 . Petals - structural photovoltaic panels
3 . Floor System - adaptive wood tiles
4 . Structure - carbon fiber composite
5 . Foglights
Hull:
1. Battery
2. Ruderless Propulsion System
a.counter-rotating propellor array
b.water jet plenum-in/out
3. Active gyroscope array
4. Coarse pollution filter
The hull, like the drivetrain of a car, is standard to all craft, while the deck can be switched out to change the function, or ‘mod’, of each craft when necessary.
Fog Harvesting Mode of Hydropods
TEAM:
SIMA SHAHVERDI
JEFFREY MONTES
CHRIS BOTHAM
WITH AI SPACE FACTORY