Floating Building Pontoon Rotation for Stable Repositioning
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing floating house designs face challenges with complex and time-consuming repositioning, exposure to wind gusts and unauthorized interference, inefficient solar panel alignment, and vulnerable supply lines, among other issues.
Innovation Solution
A building development with a centrally positioned passthrough opening and a rotatable pontoon mounted around a pile mooring, allowing 360° alignment, integrated supply lines within the mooring, and a basin for seismic damping, along with modular design and fire-resistant features.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If the pontoon is fixed to the pile mooring, then the building is stable in position, but the repositioning process becomes complex and time-consuming
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies a dynamic retention system where the pontoon can transition between fixed and movable states. The pile mooring includes a retention mechanism that can engage or disengage from the pontoon, allowing the building to be stable during normal operation but easily repositioned when needed. This resolves the contradiction by making the stability characteristic changeable rather than fixed.
2Strength
If the pontoon presents a large contact surface to wind gusts, then the building has sufficient structural area, but wind-induced forces cause damage to the pile mooring and pontoon
Solution Approach 1:
The patent enables the pontoon to rotate around the pile mooring axis, allowing dynamic adjustment of the building's orientation relative to wind direction. This resolves the contradiction by allowing the structure to maintain its structural area while minimizing the contact surface exposed to harmful wind gusts through rotational repositioning.
3Adaptability or versatility
If supply lines extend over long distances parallel to the water surface, then the building can connect to external suppliers, but the lines are exposed to weather and water causing faster aging
Solution Approach 1:
The patent integrates the supply lines within the hollow interior of the pile mooring structure. This nesting arrangement protects the supply lines from weather and water exposure while maintaining connection to external suppliers through the mooring's internal passageways, resolving the contradiction between adaptability and reliability.
4Adaptability or versatility
If the supply lines are configured with tolerance to compensate for displacement, then the lines can accommodate high water levels, but the lines require larger installation space and are loosely guided
Solution Approach 1:
By nesting the supply lines within the hollow pile mooring, the patent eliminates the need for excessive tolerance configurations. The lines are guided through the confined internal space of the mooring, which naturally accommodates displacement without requiring additional installation space or loose guidance arrangements.
5Ease of manufacture
If the passthrough opening is positioned off-center in the pontoon, then the structural design is simplified, but the building cannot be aligned optimally with solar radiation
Solution Approach 1:
The patent enables the pontoon to rotate around the centrally positioned pile mooring, allowing the building to dynamically align with solar radiation for optimal energy utilization. The passthrough opening is positioned at the center to accommodate this rotational movement while maintaining structural simplicity, resolving the contradiction between ease of manufacture and energy efficiency.
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
Enhances solar radiation control, protects against environmental influences and unauthorized interference, optimizes supply line protection, and provides seismic stability and fire safety.
Implementation Method 1
a pontoon (8) having at least one float (6) for floating on a liquid
Implementation Method 2
floating houses are translationally and rotationally retained in their respective position on the body of water by means of pile moorings
Data Source
AI summary
A building development (1), having a building (4) arranged on a building development base (2), wherein the building development base (2) has a pontoon (8) having at least one float (6) for floating on a liquid and a pile mooring (10), which extends through a passthrough opening (14) of the pontoon (8) along a pile mooring axis (X) perpendicularly to the pontoon (8). The passthrough opening (14) is configured centrally in the pontoon (8), and the pontoon (8) is rotationally movably mounted around the pile mooring (10) that extends through the passthrough opening (14). The pontoon (8) can be aligned and positioned around a pile mooring axis (X), wherein the pile mooring (10) projects into the receiving chamber through the passthrough opening (14) of the pontoon (8) and through a first breakthrough (16) arranged in a bottom of a receiving chamber, arranged above the passthrough opening (14). The invention relates further to a building development base (2) and a pile mooring (10) of such a building development (1).