Artificial Island/ Man-made Island

I personally think that artificial islands/islets would become one of the results if human have to live in a world with zombies. Even though we don’t have time to build one when we are going to escape, but we can build some before that day would come. Therefore, I did some research about the Man- made Islands and see how people performed in those islands.

Artificial Island:

• is an island that has been constructed by people rather than formed by natural means.
• They are created by expanding existing islets, construction on existing reefs, or amalgamating several natural islets into a bigger island. 

 In modern times artificial islands are usually formed by land reclamation.

The largest artificial island: Rene-Levasseur Island, was formed by flooding of two adjacent reservoirs. (resent developments have been made more in the manner of oil platforms).

Artificial island vary from different size:

        1.         small islets reclaimed solely to support a single pillar of building or structure.  

        2.         Support entire communities and cities.

Artificial islands are an expensive but in some cases incrative option for many cities having lack-of –land problems. E.g. Tokyo’s Odaona&Fukuoka’s island city project.

                         
                           Here, I studied the Hashima Island in Japan which it already has been abandoned now.

The island was populated from 1887 to 1974 as a coal mining facility. The island’s most notable features are the abandoned and undisturbed concrete apartment buildings and the surrounding sea wall.

(Concrete walls used to protect the whole island from waves or any other damages from the ocean.)

They Built Japan’s first large concrete building(9 stories high), a block of apartments in 1916 to accommodate their burgeoning ranks of workers. Concrete was specifically used to protect against typhoon destruction. A society grew here during the 20^th century, with schools, kindergartens, shops, cinema, restaurants, hospital, hotel, temple and graveyard.

Block 65,where all people lived inside this large concrete building. (The Japan’s first large concrete building.)

         In 1959, the 6.3-hectare (16-acre) island’s population reached its peak of 5,259, with a population density of 835 people per hectare(83,500 people/km²) for the whole island, or 1,391 per hectare (139,100 people/km²) for the residential district. Here, people were cramped up on an area roughly a square meter and a half per person.

         The island closed down in 1974, today it is empty and bare, it is called Ghost Island. Travel to Hashima was re-opened on April 22, 2009 after 35 years of closure.

                                         Complex staircases connected to different floor levels.

     The staircase called “stairs to the hell”, it was the stairs connected to all the places you need to go, run through the whole island.

Link of the website of Hashimi Island: http://www.hashima-island.co.uk/#

Link of a person talked about his life in Hashimi Island before with his whole family: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okRUrxvngCc&feature=mfu_in_order&list=UL