Aug 12, 2021
ana034: Designing Liberland | Tim's Porcfest 2021 Speech
Tim presented our entry to the Liberland International Design Competition at Porcfest 2021.
His talk covered:
* The geographical and political history of Liberland
* Site and ecology, ground conditions, flooding
* Energy, Water, Wastewater Infrastructure
* Transportation
* Our proposed site layout
* Blockchain based development incentivisation and infrastructure DAO’s
* THE LIBERTARIUM
* Q&A
Download Slideshow (PDF)
Our entry to the Liberland Design Competition (download PDF)
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----more----Intro (1:55)
* Liberland is not developable land…
* Our entry to the Liberland design competition
* We submitted an engineering report to an architecture design competition
* Honourable Mention Award
* Porcfest
* NHExit venue
* Over 2,000 people
* Some real heavyweights
* Shout outs
* A 2 hour conversation about privatizing public space (who would listen to 2 hours of.. oh wait)
* Winners have been announced
* Summary of presentation
* Next episode teaser
Download PDF of Slideshow Presentation (14:37)
* SLIDE 3 – History of Liberland (14:50)
* Land Parcel between Serbia and Croatia
* Border dispute
* Croatian Border Control
* SLIDE 4 – Hydrological History (16:36)
* Story of the Danube River
* Pannonian Sea
* Flood basin from Alps snow melt
* SLIDE 5 (17:23)
* Historical flows
* Canals and hydropower reduced flow
* 1894 – Austro-Hungarian Empire dredged canal
* SLIDE 6 Political History (18:50)
* Liberland originally part of Hungary
* WWI, 1918 – borders redrawn to create Yugoslavia
* SLIDE 7 (19:16)
* 1945 – Yugoslavia became a Federated Republic
* SLIDE 8 (20:12)
* Map of property deed registrations
* Border established down center of Danube river
* SLIDE 9 (21:07)
* Which center?
* SLIDE 10 (21:31)
* 1990’s – Yugoslavia broke up, Croatia declared independence
* Brutal war, ethnic cleansing, bad stuff
* Liberland encompassed within Serbia during war
* Boundary not resolved
* SLIDE 11 (23:02)
* Present day disputed boundary
* Vit Jedlicka claimed Liberland
* Diplomatic efforts for recognition
* Guy in a pickup truck – Liberland License Plate
* SLIDE 12 Liberland Design Competition (24:31)
* We felt obligated to enter
* SLIDE 13 (25:06)
* Facebook post of winning entries – click here for links to formal announcements with full resolution posters for winning entries
* SLIDE 14 (25:29)
* 8th grade science fair project, or award winning architectural manifesto?
* Competition forces you to look at Liberland as a real site
* We dug deep on site analysis
* SLIDE 15 Design Team (26:16)
* Tim Brochu, Principal of Adra Architecture and co-host of Anarchitecture Podcast
* Joe Brochu, Mechanical Engineer and co-host of Anarchitecture Podcast
* Goshe King and Joe Green, Mechanical Engineers from Angineering Tech Podcast
* Car Campit, Civil Engineer from Timeline Earth Podcast
* John Ellis III, Architect who interviewed Tim on our episode 28
* Palmer Ferguson, Architect
* Ryan Myers, Architect
* Andy Boenau, Transportation Planner, author, and host of the podcasts “Urbanism Speakeasy” and “How We Get Around” (https://www.andyboenau.com/)
* Mat Slaughter, Engineer
* SLIDE 16 (28:16)
* Why hasn’t Liberland been developed?
* SLIDE 17 (28:31)
* Wetlands
* Good reasons to protect wetlands
* Prevent eutrophication from fertilizers
* SLIDE 18 (29:26)
* Cute otter
* Ugly sturgeon
* Large fish spawning ground
* RAMSAR – Wetlands of International Importance
* SLIDE 19 (30:40)
* Liberland floods
* 8 meters (24 ft) of flooding
* SLIDE 20 (31:37)
* Topographical analysis of flood levels
* Half of Liberland underwater during recent 100 year floods
* Import fill?
* SLIDE 21 (32:42)
* Eutric Fluvisol, aka “Mud”
* Soil good for growing things, unless you want to grow a city
* SLIDE 22 (33:49)
* Why hasn’t Liberland been developed?
* SLIDE 23 (33:54)
* Because Liberland is not developable land
* SLIDE 24 (34:13)
* Next best idea is Seasteading, in the middle of the ocean
* Liberland’s not looking too bad!
* SLIDE 25 Opportunities for Autonomy (34:26)
* International waterway
* Investment in economically depressed region
* International multi-cultural society
* Win-Win solutions
* Infrastructure redundancy – no one nation can cut the cord
* Environmental stewardship
* SLIDE 26 Transportation (38:18)
* Road connection through Croatia
* Riverboats – passenger and freight
* Trains – bus service to nearby stations
* Airports
* Avoiding border control – international terminal on the river?
* SLIDE 27 (41:41)
* Seaplane landing on the river
* Helicopters
* Eurovelo cycle network – cycle to France
* SLIDE 28 (43:05)
* Gondola transit – not quite flying cars, but close
* eco-tourism
* Gondola from international terminal?
* Very scenic
* SLIDE 29 Energy (44:05)
* Self-sufficiency
* Solar PV – poor solar exposure
* Save sunlight for the plants
* Bifacial panels, “Floatovoltaics” (Yes, they actually call it that)
* Wind – not enough wind
* Hydroelectric – needs height differential
* “Run of the River” – not much power
* Tidal power generation
* Geothermal – underground hot rocks produce steam
* Biogas – Sewage Treatment Plant generates enough gas to power the sewage treatment plant
* Diesel – in early stages
* Natural Gas Power Station
* Nuclear – Paks facility in Hungary
* Micro-nuclear
* SLIDE 30 (50:00)
* Power Lines
* Redundancy from Croatia, Serbia, maybe Hungary
* 120,000 population target
* The Power of Freedom
* Among the most interconnected areas
* Fiber Optic – along power line routes (OPGW cable)
* Energy must be delivered via road, boat, pipeline, or wire
* Bury a cable down the river from Hungary? Risky.
* SLIDE 31 (54:14)
* Energy mix over 50 years buildout
* SLIDE 32 (54:56)
* Heating and Cooling
* Cogeneration
* Centralized Heating Plant
* SLIDE 33 (55:33)
* Water – plenty of water
* Wastewater – treatment required
* Containerised WWTP
* SLIDE 34 (56:15)
* Would other designers use our analysis? We hope so.
* Our Design
* Even though this is a small place, we’re gonna make it smaller
* The Tom Woods Woods nature preserve
* SLIDE 35 (57:41)
* Developed areas on high ground
* Decentral Park
* Walkable city
* Whowillbuildthe Road
* Marina and Wharf
* SLIDE 36 (59:35)
* Transportation Hub and road to Croatia
* Unnamed Heliport
* Croatian Border Control
* Border Controls are Stupid
* Dr. Ron Paul Medical Center
* Emergency Services
* Dispute resolution agencies (not police)
* Eugen von Bohm Bawerk Waterworks
* John Maynard Keynes Sewage Treatment Plant (full of crap)
* Power station and substation
* Gondola stations
* Deep foundations, concrete piles
* Gondolas – expensive, but a tourist attraction
* Urban gondolas and cable cars
* Bike path is right of way, build up roads above flood level
* SLIDE 37 (1:04:24)
* Masterplan with no zoning
* Incentives for density
* Blockchain based Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO)
* Limits on homesteading
* Encirclement
* Technological Unit
* Limits on parcel size
* Developers pay in to DAO, paid out based on built floor space
* Who governs the development process?
* Liberland corporation may have prior claim
* Homesteading resolves disputes between competing claims
* High demand makes technological unit small
* Liberland as a Free Private City
* Incentives for creating public space and amenities
* Environmental mitigation – build goodwill
* A latecomer catches up
* Enter the Euro…