Overview of the global potential of floating cities combined with floating production of food and biofuel, tackling land scarcity using the waste nutrients and CO2 of coastal cities. Case studie of Rotterdam, Jakarta, and Manila.

1. Presentatie projecten CoE Deltatechnologie
BlueRevolution Global Potential
Dr. ir. Rutger de Graaf-van Dinther
9 januari 2014

4. Population density

5. Earthzine, 2010
Manila, Philippines

6. Source: DeltaSync, 2013

7. Source: DeltaSync, 2013

8. Conventional city Conventional + Floating city
‘Linear metabolism’ ‘Cyclical metabolism’
Source: Deltasync, 2012

9. Concept | Closing CO2 and nutrients cycles
Source: Deltasync, 2012

10. Source: DeltaSync, 2013

11. WATERBASED URBAN DEVELOPMENT
CLIMATE
CHANGE
Rotterdam challenges | CLIMATE CHANGE
WATER SQUARE source: fastcoexist.com GREEN ROOFS source: Erasmus MC FLOATING EXPANSION
FLOOD
RISK

12. WATERBASED URBAN DEVELOPMENT
CO2
EMISSIONS
NUTRIENT
EMISSIONS
Rotterdam challenges | EMISSIONS

13. WATERBASED URBAN DEVELOPMENT
Rotterdam challenges | SUMMARIZED
TOO MUCH
WATER
TOO MANY
NUTRIENTS
TOO MUCH
CO₂

14. WATERBASED URBAN DEVELOPMENT
Rotterdam challenges | SUMMARIZED
TOO MUCH
WATER
TOO MANY
NUTRIENTS
TOO MUCH
CO₂
BASICALLY THE
REQUIREMENTS
OF A PLANT

15. WATERBASED URBAN DEVELOPMENT
BlueRevolution
Methodology
(Rotterdam)

16. WATERBASED URBAN DEVELOPMENT
Potential for
Rotterdam
* preliminarydata,underreview

17. WATERBASED URBAN DEVELOPMENT
Space requirements
land
598 km²
water
210 km²
BlueRevolution
125 km²
326 km²
808 km²
RotterdamUrbanRegion
Municipality
Port
75 km²
Rotterdam

18. WATERBASED URBAN DEVELOPMENT
Blue Revolution benefits
Mitigation
of Emissions
Reducing
Fish Depletion
Improving
Resilience
60%
reused
7.5%
reduction
(rotterdam+port)
replace 40%
of wild caught
fish
(Dutch annual
quota)

19. WATERBASED URBAN DEVELOPMENT

20. 20
Projects| Affordable floating housing

21.  Pilot project to demonstrate BlueRevolution at
building scale Rotterdam
 Floating expo/office space
 Floating algea production
 Aqua culture
 2015: Design and business case
 Study potential in other cities and pilot intnl delta city
Next steps

22. For more information:
DeltaSync
Dr. ir. Rutger de Graaf-van Dinther
T: +31 152561872
E: rutger@deltasync.nl
www.deltasync.nl
www.blue21.org
http://kenniscentrumrdm.hr.nl/nl/kenniscentrum/lectoren/Rutger-de-Graaf/