City on
Water – Thesis Sources (And Some Recommendations)
By: Jonathan Smith
For this
week’s final blog of the semester, I decided to share some of the more valuable
sources that I have stumbled upon and have been guided to by other friends and professors.
I think this will give some knowledge, (to those of you actually following
this!), on what I am heading towards for my thesis next semester. Below are links
that will guide you to each significant source, along with a corresponding
summary I have provided for each one.
This
first article gives a brief overview of the World’s First Floating Village, in
Glasgow. The village will include homes, offices, stores, restaurants, and an
event venue. I think that there will be a great deal of similarities between my
thesis project and what they are currently doing in Glasgow. I think the
smaller village/ city will be more manageable.
This
article outlines a possible project in London for a permanent floating village
located at the Royal Victoria Docks in London. The project was initially
intended to be a temporary structure, but has recently grown into a master plan
that could leave room for further expansion onto the floating village. I think
the solution that is being proposed here acts as backing to prove that aquatic
based solutions in architecture are beginning to be explored more and more
seriously.
This
link is from Arquitectum, an architecture competition website. Within this
link, click on Neomad City (at the bottom left), and you should be able to view
both a presentation and the results of a competition that was held for the
design of A Water Village in Sharjah (DUBAI-SHARJAH 2012). The presentation and
the top three chosen presentations should serve as good conceptual precedents
for my thesis project. More information about the actual competition and
specifics and be viewed here: http://www.deathbyarchitecture.com/viewCompetition.html?id=2232
This
article is a compilation of different futuristic proposals for water based
architectural designs. I found this site rather early in my research, and the
projects provided interested me enough that it helped me make my final decision
for what to do my Architectural Thesis project on. The ideas and designs
provided here rather highly conceptual, but I foresee my thesis project
resulting somewhere in between a futuristic/conceptual design and a more
realistic/near future one. For a similar, but more expansive list I also found,
(they both mention the same projects, but not all are the same), then you can
check this link: http://webecoist.momtastic.com/2009/12/07/real-life-water-world-12-futuristic-offshore-building-projects/
This
page goes into detail about Iba Dock. This is a project located Hamburg,
Germany on a Port of the Elbe. Measuring 50-meters by 26-meters, Iba Dock is
Germany’s largest floating building. It rests on a pontoon that is attached to
pilings, where it will move with the tide daily (up to 3.5 meters up and down).
This project should act as a solid precedent for my thesis. To view alternate
information regarding Iba Dock, check here (probably best to translate
with first google unless you know
German: http://www.iba-hamburg.de/themen-projekte/iba-dock/projekt/iba-dock.html
And…. For this semester folks……
FIN
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