MIRRORED CITIES | Adrian Trifu

THE APARTMENTS:
PLUG-IN AMPHIBIOUS LIVING UNITS

The wing movements counter vertigo by creating terraces where before there were only vertical drops to the facades.

THE AMPHIBIOUS APARTMENT UNIT: The ELEOS illustrations in this project depict one iteration of the two-part amphibious apartments, which will vary in layouts and morphology across islets and cities. As a working principle: the two bedroom second floor stays permanently docked, but may be upgraded with a roomier alternative. The ground floor living room + 2 functions (bathroom + 1 more), comfortably accommodate a lifestyle at sea, where the residents can be gone with (the mobile part of-) their household for months at a time, hopping along the Mediterranean coast. Alternatively, they may be simply living close-by, directly on the water for a while. In this way they would not have to invest in an yacht and, considering the floor space and the living conditions that the ground floor alone has to offer, that yacht would have to be quite expensive to come close.

Mobile section of a Apartment Unit, that can depart from the Wing
• 25 m2 of photovoltaic panels.
• Ground Floor: 50 sq.m.
• First Floor: 26.4 sq.m, easily extendible to 37 sq.m, with the increase of the two bedrooms. • The swallow tail volume offers a view in either direction, from inside of the living room

SEMI-PUBLIC & COMMUNAL SPACES
• 61 m long • 56 m tall backbone tower • 9 m stairwell base • 60 m wings • 20 m tall under the wings • 22.5 m at its widest • Tower Core wtih Vertical farms (in green) • Top Floor Restaurant in Spine • Suspended platforms for subsistence gardening, with common room cooking and dining functionality on each platform, on 1600 square meters

SECTION THROUGH TOWER
• Communal spaces in tower core
• Macrostructure caverns under the nature roof, with diverse public functionality
• Telescopic pillars, supporting the Flyer superstructure and the Walkways level and serving as lateral movent anchors for the floating Macrostructure

The concept of the presented Flyer block is that the apartments’ kitchens are removed from their usual place inside of the apartments, and relocated on the suspended Flyer terraces, along with container gardening spaces. Cooking and eating together strengthens the community.

Flyer Core - in green: common terraces of the apartments

Flyer Core: walkways encircling the core; common terraces are missing

On the sockets of the space frame structure of the Flyer, numerous rooms may be docked, with such diverse fuctions as: administrative offices on the front Public Access pillar and decentralized hotel / guest rooms on the back Residential Access Pillar.

Plug-In units and top spine: individual offices & small businesses