Eploring Dubai’s empty $13 billion man-made Island

Introducing The World, a place beyond imagination and an epic achievement. This multi-billion dollar experiment built off the coast of Dubai is an attempt to resemble an outline of the earth from the sky.

The goal for The World island was to expand Dubai’s limited waterfront and create an island enviroment just outside of the bustling city. The construction of the 300 man-made islands began in 2003 and was officially finished 5 years later in 2008, which was not the best timing for a massive real estate project. Because even though about 60% of the islands were sold to private contractors with a global financial crisis, most private owners decided to completely halt their construction fo the time being. On top of that solving the logistical challenge of how to bring materials out to build on the islands and then eventually finding sources of water and power to live on the islands also delayed some developers. Now getting permission to go out to the islands is a little hard to get.

Currently there is only one island open to the public, Lebanon island opened about 8 years ago as a day party venue. people live in Dubai will get away from the noise and go to Lebanon island for relaxing themselves on the weekend. There is another island named Coronation, which is a restricted private island currently under construction. No one has gotten access to this island yet. It looks brand new and quite livable. There arre different kind of villas built with different styles. There will be totally 630 villas built on this island. All construction materials were shipped from ouside, which is difficult and full of challenges. The owner said they tried to do something organic, so when tourists enjoy their holiday on the island, they can feel the island, feel the bamboo, so that they won’t feel as if they are in the city.

One of the most important thing is, by doing this they can protect the sand from going and keep the water clear and circulating. First they started with seven continents, then they found out that the continents were too big, so they made them small and made them islands. The amazing thing is they’ve made the beach in Dubai from 60km to 850km. Nobody ever built or reclaimed the island the way they did. They built the breakwater, which are rocks that are protecting the area so no matter how bad the sea, it doesn’t affect their island as much. They don’t have to get water out shipped, because they desalinate it themselves. Even the garbage they convert into gas. All the organic material, they don’t ship it out, the only thing they ship out is plastic, glass and tin. Everything else there, such as cartons or paper, it can become a compost for the agriculture. And all the foods left over goes into the system, what comes out is the methane gas, the methane gas goes to the special oven and they cook with it. So it reduced how much garbage they sent out to the island.

That’s really incredible and insane!

                                Written by Sybil on the 23th of May, 2022

探索迪拜价值130亿美元的空的人造岛

介绍The World，一个超越想象的地方，一个史诗般的成就。这个耗资数十亿美元的实验是在迪拜海岸建造的，目的是从天空中模拟地球的轮廓。

世界岛的目标是扩大迪拜有限的海滨，并在繁华的城市外创造一个岛屿环境。300座人工岛的建设始于2003年，5年后的2008年正式竣工，这不是大规模房地产项目的最佳时机。由于全球金融危机，约60%的岛屿被卖给了私人承包商，但大多数私人业主决定暂时完全停止建设。除此之外，物流方面的挑战——如何将材料运到岛上建造，然后最终找到岛上生活所需的水源和电力——也延缓了开发商的行动。现在要得到去这些岛屿的许可有点难。

目前只有一个岛对公众开放，黎巴嫩岛大约8年前作为聚会场所开放。住在迪拜的人会远离喧嚣，周末去黎巴嫩岛放松自己。还有一个名为加冕岛的岛屿，是一个目前正在建设的限制性私人岛屿。还没有人能进入这个岛。它看起来很新，很适合居住。岛上根据不同的风格，建筑了不同种类的别墅。岛上将建630栋别墅。所有的建筑材料都是从外面运来的，这是非常困难和充满挑战的。岛主说他们试图做一些有机的事情，这样当游客在岛上度假时，他们可以感受到岛屿，感受到竹子，这样他们就不会觉得自己是在城市里。

最重要的一件事是，通过这样做，他们可以保护沙子，保持水的清澈和循环。首先，他们从七个大陆开始，然后他们发现大陆太大了，所以他们把它们变小，把它们变成了岛屿。令人惊叹的是，他们把迪拜的海滩从60公里扩展到了850公里。至今还没有人像他们那样建造这样的岛。他们建造了防波堤，用岩石来保护这片区域，这样无论海面有多坏，都不会对他们的岛屿造成太大影响。他们不需要把水运出去，因为他们自己淡化海水。甚至垃圾也被转化成气体。所有的有机材料，他们不运出，他们唯一运出的是塑料，玻璃和锡。其他的东西，比如纸箱或纸，都可以成为农业的堆肥。所有剩下的食物都进入这个系统，出来的是甲烷，甲烷可以用作天然气，用于烤箱，他们用它烹饪。所以这减少了他们发送到岛上的垃圾。

这真是不可思议和疯狂!

                                                                    西比尔于2022年5月23日写