By Nneka Nwogwugwu
An Australian architect, Margot Krasojević, founder of Margot Krasojević Architecture, has revealed that he plans to build a 75-room hotel on top of a “floating island”.
The Island is situated in Australia’s Cocos archipelago — a chain of islands situated 2750 kilometers northwest of Perth, Western Australia.
The “Trash Island” is inspired by the Great Pacific Garbage Patch and underneath the resort will be made up of large plastic-filled bags weaved together and then anchored to the ocean floor.
Kasojević in a press release, said, the bags will be weighed down with silt and sand to ensure the structure is stable.
Further describing the hotel, he said artificial “roots,” designed to mimic a mangrove, will be positioned around the structure in order to trap sediment and act as a flood defense by sucking up water to inflate when needed.
The tentacle-like structures will act like the island’s “life jacket in an emergency, as they expand the trapped sediment creating artificially engineered land almost like an inflatable runway,” according to the press release.
Guests of the hotel will shower in distilled seawater.
Krasojević told CNN the plans were at an early stage and could take several years to build, but that she hopes it will open to guests in 2025.