H2Opulent

This project is an experiment on resilience, in an attempt to set forth guidelines for a new architecture that is designed with water, for water, and against water. The intent of this project is to create a self-sustaining architectural model that will exist entirely detached from dry land in order to mitigate the affects of flooding and water level rise. For this project I am analyzing projects in three categories: land, water and hybrid. Land includes projects built along the coast on solid ground, water includes projects that either float on top of the water or are built on stilts above the water, and hybrid includes projects that either break the boundary between land and water or are at least partially submerged underwater. Within these three categories, I am analyzing the precedents in terms of building type, natural systems used, project scale, and user experience