THE FLOATING CITY | CAPSTONE
Narrated through speculative design, The Floating City tells the story of a future world dealing with rapidly rising sea levels and population growth, by proposing a new type of community that can inhabit a world we have yet to build upon: the water’s surface. The project begins in the year 2100 in the San Francisco bay, where unused industrial infrastructure on the edges of the city is sacrificed to rising water, leaving these relics of the past half-submerged in a marsh landscape. Taking full advantage of the new environment, a growing population of people begin to craft a new life there, allowing for more bottom up development than the previous setting permitted. At its core the communities consist of osmotic power machines and fog nets that provide energy, water, and an apparatus for which to build upon, attach to, and come together. What forms around it comes from the ingenuity of its inhabitance, and takes full advantage of the new building surface by leveraging its ability to move around fluidly as the community needs. At this stage the floating communities begin to influence areas beyond their site, and possibly beyond San Francisco itself, carrying with them new implications for technology, community, culture, and politics.
The Floating City is the recipient of the 2018 Sloan Award & was published in ARCHITECT magazine https://www.architectmagazine.com/awards/studio-prize/sloan-award-capstone-san-francisco-section_o
