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Review of Our Activities
Our time-domain activities are listed as follows;
- August 2023
The third “World Conference on Floating Solutions (WCFS 2023 Japan)” was held at the Nihon University, Faculty of Science and Engineering Building 1, Ochanomizu, Tokyo from 28th to 29th August 2023. This timely International Conference for the utilization of Floating Structure was successfully held while having many participants from Japan and abroad. The Waterfront Real Estate Co., Ltd. initiated the core activities in cooperation with Chodai Co., Ltd. Shimizu Corporation, and the Nihon University.
In addition to contributing to the conference as a “Gold Sponsor”, the Waterfront Real Estate Co., Ltd. and the Waterpoint Initiative set up booth in the corporate exhibition space to present own activities for Sustainable Water City Concept.
A scene of the presentation of ”WCFS’23 Japan” conference
A corporate booth for the Waterfront Real Estate Co., Ltd
and the Waterpolitan Initiative - August 2023
In parallel with the International Conference, Waterfront Real Estate planned and set up a special exhibition booth by which it attracted many people from Japan and abroad. The contents of the special exhibition introduce the “Hawaii Floating City Project ‘76” and other endeavors on floating structures - pioneering projects on the marine city in the 1970s after which its concept has recently been recognized by many countries. On the second day of the conference, a briefing seminar was held here on the history of marine cities designed by the late Architect Kiyonori Kikutake who is widely recognized as a pioneer in this endeavor. Architect Shizuo Harada and Mrs. Mutsuko Kikutake Smith, widow of the architect Kiyonori Kikutake served as lecturers and disclosed many episodes relating this subject.
A special exhibition on the “Hawaii Floating City Project’76”
and other endeavors on floating structures - August 2023
Two papers were presented at the International Conference“WCFS’23 Japan”. The theme of first paper is “Sustainable Water City - A case Study in Singapore” by T. Nakajima and Y. Yamashita. The content of this paper is about the proposed floating water city in Singapore that is constructed in artificial reservoirs on land to mitigate population growth and water shortage that have been pressing issues in Singapore since 2017. The other paper is “An Innovative Design Concept of Modular Pneumatic Floating Platforms by T. Nakajima, Y. Yamashita, M. Imai and Yuuki Yamashita, which introduces the history, the proposal for Osaka Expo’25 and technical evaluation of pneumatic floating structures supported by some experimental studies.
Artist’s images of the proposed “Singapore Water City” and “Pneumatic Floating Tower” - September 2023
The “Composite Pneumatic Floating Body and Wind Power Housing on this Structure” was issued as the patent on 11th September 2023 by Patent Office of Japan. Recipients of the patent are Waterfront Real Estate Co., Ltd. and Chodai Co. Ltd. Pneumatic floating bodies are floating structures that resemble an upside-down bowl. It is known that the stability of individual floating body is extremely poor. Therefore, we have conducted research and development focusing on creating a highly stable floating structure by connecting multiple pneumatic floating structures with rigid three-dimensional truss beams together with Chodai Co., Ltd. This composite pneumatic floating structure is expected to be used as an artificial ground for floating cities. It is constructed at a moderate cost and is suitable for a floating body of offshore wind power generation facilities.
Patent Certificate of The Composite Pneumatic Floating Structures
Schematic drawing of pneumatic floating structure for floating city - October 2020
The paper "A Study on Stability of Floating Architecture and Its Design Methodology" presented at an international confab (monikered "Paving Waves") on utilization of waterborne structures held in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. - January 2020
Draft ideas provided the organizers of the world exposition Osaka-Kansai Japan Expo 2025, in conjunction with Chodai Co., Ltd. - December 2019
Waterfront Real Estate inks a Memorandum of Understanding with Chodai Co., Ltd. - June 2019
Waterfront Real Estate becomes a Corporate Member of "The Society of Floating Solutions, Singapore (SFSS)". - April 2019
After incorporation, we have cooperated with the WCFS '19 International Conference held in Singapore as one of the Gold Sponsor companies. More recently we have been expanding our activities such as inking a deal with the Japanese firm Chodai Co., Ltd. and signing a joint research agreement with the University of Tokyo. The paper "An Integrated Floating Community based upon a Hybrid Water System: Toward a Super-sustainable Water City" presented at WCFS’19.
Conference Room at the WCFS’19 in Singapore - December 2018
Introduced the Waterborne City Concept content by siting our own event booth at Oslo "Future City Expo '18" exhibition held in the namesake venue of Norway
Buildings of the EVOLVE ARENA for the ”Future City Expo’18” in Oslo, Norway
Our Exhibition Booth at the ”Future City Expo’18”Meanwhile, in November of 2018, WRE launched the ”Waterpolitan Initiative (WpI)” to partake in more related activities. In December of the same year, WpI conducted an inaugural publicity activity focused on "Realizing a Sustainable Waterborne City" by setting up its own booth at the ”Future City Expo’18” international exhibition that took place in an Oslo, Norway suburb.
- November 2018
Launched "Waterpolitan Initiative (WpI)" effort within Waterfront Real Estate - November 2018
A TV documentary program prepared by the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) of the United States, which centered upon our Waterborne City Concept for Tokyo's Koto Ward, aired globally
Video of the“Sinking Cities” (DVD) - August 2017
Waterfront Real Estate ＜Toshio Nakajima,CEO＞ -- a Japan-based corporation -- was established in August of 2017. As the name implies, our company aims to provide water-area/waterfront and oceanfront real estate conceptualization, design, planning plus consulting services as well as other related activities. - August 2017
Invited talk on "Utilization of Mega-float type platforms for civil purpose" given at National University of Singapore (NUS) CORE Symposium - April 2016
Paper selected by SpringerNature as the must-read papers published in 2015 to save the world - 2015
The paper "Novel Solution for Lower-lying Land Areas Safe from Natural Disasters -- Toward Reconstruction of Lost Coastal Areas in Northeast Japan" for the international journal J. Mar. Sci. Eng. 2015 2077-1312 published. - 2015
The paper "A New Concept for Lower-lying Land Areas Safe from Natural Disasters" for SpringerNature's international journal published
Comment of SpringerNature for Our Published Paper - September 2013
"Tokyo Koto Ward Waterborne City Planning Concept" presented in detail at Oceans'13 held in San Diego, California - October 2012
"Waterborne City Concept" as applied to recovery for Kesennuma which was stricken by March 11th, 2011 disaster in collaboration with Nihon University Professor Kawagishi's lab presented at Oceans'12 held in Hampton Road, Virginia - September 2011
"Waterborne City Concept" as applied to recovery for March 11th, 2011 tsunami-devastated Arahama in Sendai presented at Oceans'11 held in Kona, Hawaii - October 2010
"Tokyo Koto Ward Waterborne City" presented at Techno-Ocean international confab held in Kobe - 2008
Research on "Tokyo Koto Ward Waterborne City Planning" conducted based on funding from Tokyo Metropolitan University's Liaison Office - November 2007
First unveiling of the "Waterborne City" paper at the International Symposium on Sustainable Urban Environment (ISSUE2007), held under the auspice of Graduate School of Urban Environmental Science, Tokyo Metropolitan University with support from Japanese Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism.
