Marine architecture is the design of architectural and engineering structures which support coastal design, near-shore and off-shore or deep-water planning for many projects such as
shipyard
A shipyard, also called a dockyard or boatyard, is a place where ships are built and repaired. These can be yachts, military vessels, cruise liners or other cargo or passenger ships. Dockyards are sometimes more associated with maintenance ...
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ship transport
Maritime transport (or ocean transport) and hydraulic effluvial transport, or more generally waterborne transport, is the transport of people (passengers) or goods (cargo) via waterways. Freight transport by sea has been widely used throug ...
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coastal management
Coastal management is defence against flooding and erosion, and techniques that stop erosion to claim lands. Protection against rising sea levels in the 21st century is crucial, as sea level rise accelerates due to climate change. Changes ...
or other marine and/or hydroscape activities. These structures include
harbor
A harbor (American English), harbour (British English; see spelling differences), or haven is a sheltered body of water where ships, boats, and barges can be docked. The term ''harbor'' is often used interchangeably with ''port'', which is a ...
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lighthouse
A lighthouse is a tower, building, or other type of physical structure designed to emit light from a system of lamps and lenses and to serve as a beacon for navigational aid, for maritime pilots at sea or on inland waterways.
Lighthouses m ...
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marina
A marina (from Spanish , Portuguese and Italian : ''marina'', "coast" or "shore") is a dock or basin with moorings and supplies for yachts and small boats.
A marina differs from a port in that a marina does not handle large passenger ships or ...
s,
oil platform
An oil platform (or oil rig, offshore platform, oil production platform, and similar terms) is a large structure with facilities to extract and process petroleum and natural gas that lie in rock formations beneath the seabed. Many oil platfor ...
s,
offshore drilling
Offshore drilling is a mechanical process where a wellbore is drilled below the seabed. It is typically carried out in order to explore for and subsequently extract petroleum that lies in rock formations beneath the seabed. Most commonly, the t ...
s,
accommodation platform
An accommodation platform is an offshore platform which supports living quarters for offshore personnel. These are often associated with the petroleum industry, although other industries use them as well, such as the wind farm Horns Rev 2. s and
offshore wind farm
Offshore wind power or offshore wind energy is the generation of electricity through wind farms in bodies of water, usually at sea. There are higher wind speeds offshore than on land, so offshore farms generate more electricity per amount of ...
s, floating engineering structures and building architectures or civil seascape developments. Floating structures in deep water may use
suction caisson for
anchor
An anchor is a device, normally made of metal , used to secure a vessel to the bed of a body of water to prevent the craft from drifting due to wind or current. The word derives from Latin ''ancora'', which itself comes from the Greek á ...
ing.
[A History of Naval Architecture, By John Fincham]
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File:VolturnUS 1-8 in Castine ME.jpg, University of Maine's Floating wind turbine
A floating wind turbine is an offshore wind turbine mounted on a floating structure that allows the turbine to generate electricity in water depths where fixed-foundation turbines are not feasible.
Floating wind farms have the potential to signi ...
VolturnUS 1:8 was the first grid-connected offshore wind turbine in the Americas.
File:Floating loose mooring catenary plain.svg, A single floating cylindrical spar buoy moored by catenary
In physics and geometry, a catenary (, ) is the curve that an idealized hanging chain or cable assumes under its own weight when supported only at its ends in a uniform gravitational field.
The catenary curve has a U-like shape, superfici ...
cables. Hywind uses a ''ballasted catenary'' layout that adds 60 tonne weights hanging from the midpoint of each anchor cable to provide additional tension.
Image:Clevedon Victorian pier.jpg, Victorian pier at Clevedon, Somerset
Clevedon (, ) is an English seaside town and civil parish in the unitary authority of North Somerset, part of the ceremonial county of Somerset. It recorded a parish population of 21,281 in the United Kingdom Census 2011, estimated at 21,442 i ...
, England
Image:Pier Blankenberge R01.jpg, The pier of Blankenberge
Blankenberge (; french: Blankenberghe; vls, Blanknberge) is a city and a municipality in the Belgian province of West Flanders. The municipality comprises the town of Blankenberge proper and the settlement of Uitkerke.
On 1 December 2014, Bla ...
, Belgium
Image:Surfer at Huntington Beach Pier.jpg, Huntington Beach Pier, California
Image:Suontee in Joutsa.jpg, A typical Finnish pier with a table, chair and ladders for swimmers in Joutsa
Joutsa is a municipality of Finland. It is located in the province of Western Finland and is part of the Central Finland region. Jyväskylä is located about north of the Joutsa municipality.
The municipality has a population of
() and cov ...
, Central Finland
Central Finland ( fi, Keski-Suomi; sv, Mellersta Finland) is a region ( / ) in Finland. It borders the regions of Päijät-Häme, Pirkanmaa, South Ostrobothnia, Central Ostrobothnia, North Ostrobothnia, North Savo, and South Savo. The city o ...
File:USS Port Royal (CG 73) aft elevated drydock view.jpg, USS Port Royal (CG-73)
USS ''Port Royal'' (CG-73) was a guided missile cruiser that served in the United States Navy. She was Ship commissioning, commissioned on 9 July 1994, as the 27th and final ship of the class. ''Port Royal'' was named in honor of the two nava ...
in drydock.
File:Duxbury Pier light house in Plymouth harbor.jpg, Duxbury Pier Light in Plymouth harbor.
File:AereaPuertoSherry.JPG, Aerial view of a typical marina (harbor dredge and lighthouse in lower right)
File:Oil platform P-51 (Brazil).jpg,
File:Off Shore Drilling Rig, Santa Barbara, CA, 6 December, 2011.JPG, An oil drilling platform off the coast of Santa Barbara, CA
File:11-09-fotofluege-cux-allg-25a.jpg, Oil platform Mittelplate
Mittelplate is Germany's largest oil field, from the shore, in the environmentally important Schleswig-Holstein Wadden Sea National Parks tidal flats. The development of the field was done by a consortium of RWE Dea and Wintershall. By the 20t ...
includes an accommodation platform
An accommodation platform is an offshore platform which supports living quarters for offshore personnel. These are often associated with the petroleum industry, although other industries use them as well, such as the wind farm Horns Rev 2. .
File:Jawaharlal Nehru Trust Port.jpg, Harbour cranes unload cargo from a container ship at the Jawaharlal Nehru Port
Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust (JNPT) or JLN Port, also known as Nhava Sheva Port, is the second largest container port in India after Mundra Port. Located in Navi Mumbai's Raigad district, this port on the Arabian Sea is accessed via Thane Cree ...
in Navi Mumbai
Navi Mumbai (), is a planned city situated on the west coast of the Indian subcontinent, located in the Konkan division of Maharashtra state, on the mainland of India.
Navi Mumbai is part of the Mumbai Metropolitan Region (MMR). The city ...
, India
India, officially the Republic of India (Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and dependencies by area, seventh-largest country by area, the List of countries and dependencies by population, second-most populous ...
.
File:Oosterscheldekering, Netherlands.JPG, Oosterscheldekering
The Oosterscheldekering ( English: Eastern Scheldt storm surge barrier), between the islands Schouwen-Duiveland and Noord-Beveland, is the largest of the Delta Works, a series of dams and storm surge barriers, designed to protect the Netherland ...
sea wall
A seawall (or sea wall) is a form of coastal defense constructed where the sea, and associated coastal processes, impact directly upon the landforms of the coast. The purpose of a seawall is to protect areas of human habitation, conservation ...
, the Netherlands.
File:Oosterscheldekering-pohled.jpg, One of the three movable barrier sections of the Oosterscheldekering
File:Saipem 7000.jpg, The ''Saipem 7000
The ''Saipem 7000'' is the world's third largest semi-submersible crane vessel, after the and the . It is owned by the oil and gas industry contractor Saipem S.p.A.
Construction
The vessel was designed by Gusto Engineering during 1984.
The v ...
'', a semi-submersible crane vessel equipped with a J-lay pipe-laying system.
File:Allseas' Solitaire, pijplegschip.jpg, The ''Solitaire
Solitaire is any tabletop game which one can play by oneself, usually with cards, but also with dominoes. The term "solitaire" is also used for single-player games of concentration and skill using a set layout tiles, pegs or stones. These game ...
'', one of the largest pipe-laying ships in the world.
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