Walkthrough - Land meeting sea pt 2

Indigo and Cryengine - Land meeting sea pt 2

Drawings - Land meeting sea pt 2

Research and concepts - Land meeting sea pt 2

Based off my last design I decided to develop a new way in which the idea of Land meeting sea could be materialized. Some of my concepts included a floating boatshed placed in the middle of the harbor, a wave generator placed inside of a boatshed and a modular pod that would move around with the tides. But the concept that I thought topped the rest was the idea of an aquarium in the boatsheds. Taking what was in the sea and placing it on land felt like a good portrayal of the idea land meeting sea.

These concepts show how the aquarium would fit between two boatsheds. My idea was to have a two story tank that could be viewed from both sides, the stairs at the back of the sheds allows you to walk around both sides of the tank on both of the levels. The space between the stairs would be used for the pumps and filtration systems required for a tank of this scale. I decided to use a tropical tank in this design to provide the user with an experience that they couldn't get looking at local sea life.

Sketchup Models - Land meeting sea

Perspective and orthographic drawings - Land meeting sea

Concepts - Land meeting sea

An area constantly being changed by the elements factoring in weather and tidal patterns. Beaches have ever changing landscapes and it is this ideal that I want to incorporate into my design. I first looked into how movement is currently being used in architecture and found my idea for my first concept, the modular "Pods".

The idea behind this design was to have two separate Pods that the public would be able to arrange in anyway they wanted. They could be furnished with lounging furniture, used as a public bathroom or a gallery space. It was after the idea of having the idea of a gallery that I then came up with my final concept, as a gallery in itself also has this element of constantly changing and moving.

This design has a large empty frame with wooden panels on the roof and front wall that can be moved/adjusted either manually or set to move automatically with the weather, time of day or tide. The four walls placed in the middle of the structure are not permanent to allow of a range of gallery types and installations. The effect of these movable panels is more visible in my perspective drawings.