One worldwide event that is planned almost a decade in advance is the Olympics; countries vie for the hosting responsibilities for years in prior to the vote. A limiting factor is the cost of the event itself, a country must prove that it can build the necessary venues and infrastructure to host the great influx of people and cater to their needs as well as the sporting facilities. One professor of architecture from the Technion Israel Institute of Technology has a solution, a series of floating venues that can be transported easily along coastlines.
The idea of floating, transportable venues for the Olympic games seems like a plausible idea due to the large cost to each country when they are chosen to host the games, then after their investments often go unused and seen as a blight if not up kept. Also the ordeal of planning and building venues that would be used only once for its intended purpose. The design plan would entail the structures to be built on a latticework frame that was designed in the 1980’s. The initial cost would be great and would need to be funded somehow. Another benefit to having transportable venues is in case of a natural disaster; they could be easily moved and even “stored” in areas not prone to bad weather when they are not in use.
Opponents to the idea say building venues stimulates the economies of the countries and the facilities are often used again for local sports teams.
I think the idea of transportable venues is a good idea not just in cost efficiency, but it also allows for standardization of footing and facilities that would be able to be up kept and modernized as necessary, instead of building a new facility each time. It would also allow for countries to spend more of their focus on the venues that would have to be on land and their visitor facilities. People want to see a countries beauty when they go to the Olympics, and it allows the country to put its best face forward. Finally, more countries would be able to host the Olympics due to the lessened cost.
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