Floating City
Where we suggested a city for post-sea-level-rise gulf
Design Team: Iman Amini, Delaram Zarnegar, Alireza Houbakht
2011
With the great examples of speculative work by Archigram (i.e. Walking City, Plug-in City, etc.) in mind, we, a group of young architecture studients tried to address the future of sea-level-rise in the Persian Gulf.
How will the sea-level-rise, caused by manmade activities affect the life in population centers around the Gulf? How a speculative and futuristic mega-structure may address the problem and provoke about a non-preferable, but still preventable future? What services this floating city will provide? And finally, how such a superstructure will look like?
The solution, though seems unrealistic in the beginning, can be elaborated using deferent design strategic methods. The project will be able to improve tourism in the area as well as function as an incredible hotel. The basic idea of a plumb-bob helped the towers to settle on the lake.
