📹CR7 Museum

Tracking Structural Displacement

The massive underground facility sits directly over a collapsed volcanic caldera. Thirty vertical meters of heavy concrete pilings penetrate the silty harbor floor. They seek solid basalt bedrock. Heavy hotel structures and the museum itself exert continuous vertical pressure upon the unstable fill. Structural engineers have recorded four centimeters of permanent settlement along the primary basalt pier since twenty sixteen. They measure this alarming displacement weekly. They use millimetric laser sensors.

Simultaneously, the adjacent Funchal port handles massive cruise ships. They weigh over one hundred thousand tonnes. Vessel displacement creates strong localized currents. These currents aggressively scour the underwater foundations. This continuous hydrodynamic process removes fine sand particles. It accelerates the slow decay. Nature slowly reclaims this expensive man-made shoreline day by day.