THE FLOATING MACROSTRUCTURE
nature parks and culture domes
nature parks and culture domes
Up top, a weave of footpaths and nature trails crisscross rolling hillsides, orchards, groves and sandy floodplains. Here and there a gargantuan mouth yawns in the free flowing grassland. Jutting all around it, tall crystal prisms channel sunlight to the culture dome below. Beyond numerous beaches and marinas, unbroken nature reaches out across and under the sea.
On the Islet, the park is no longer a morsel in a vast urban pattern, ever at the whim of the voracious concrete beast. It is the whole thing. Above this borderless green foundation the steel and glass city flutters.
On the Islet, the park is no longer a morsel in a vast urban pattern, ever at the whim of the voracious concrete beast. It is the whole thing. Above this borderless green foundation the steel and glass city flutters.
The Macrostructure is always afloat. But rather than just bobbing blissfully on the water mirror, its ballast tanks allow it a controlled freedom of movement, with arbitrary superficial flooding in order to create specific landscapes. Some sections may gradually sink to mid-water, thus dramatically altering the topography of the roof park landscape. Other sections, those that remain afloat during this entire process, suddenly find themselves singled out above the green and blue waves, their cavernous bellies now open on all sides to sunshine and the sea salt breeze. Above the waves and out in the open when the weather is fair, or back down into the belly of the fully risen Macrostructure in the off season- it is in these cultured domes that people gather to perform a play, to watch a movie projection, or to hold a public debate.
Most of the Macrostructure is essentially a fused mosaic of oversized flotation devices, simply serving to prop up a leafy leisure rooftop, as well as the still connected Flyer apartment towers superstructures (while their telescopic pillars are not yet firmly rooted in the sea bed). In this mosaic, a few independent floating sections with the same continuous green roof, have accessible hollow structures, so that they may function as public cultural spaces.
Most of the Macrostructure is essentially a fused mosaic of oversized flotation devices, simply serving to prop up a leafy leisure rooftop, as well as the still connected Flyer apartment towers superstructures (while their telescopic pillars are not yet firmly rooted in the sea bed). In this mosaic, a few independent floating sections with the same continuous green roof, have accessible hollow structures, so that they may function as public cultural spaces.
• Conceptual drawing of Macrostructure being submerged to desired effect
• Conceptual drawing of Macrostructure with partially flooded topography
• Macrostructure entirely afloat
• Macrostructure superficially submerged
• Macrostructure partially submerged
