- Client
- Dualisma PAM Competition
- Completion
- 2016
- Location
- Dualisma | KL
- Size
- 1.5 m x 0.8 m
- Team
- Henry Ngo, Ho Kae Jing, Wong Chun Fei
The project
Human is fast running out of living space with only a quarter of our planet is dry land; the rest is ocean. And our growing numbers are filling that quarter to bursting-point. Overpopulation has humanity loomingwith issues, and Energy Depletion being one of the major concern. Since the land is finite and since the resources which permit our civilization to function are finite, at some point in time both population and development on the land must cease. The idea of having a "offshore city" is meant to relieve the land based population pressures as well as to offer an alternative solution to the growing concern of energy depletion.
A city that extends its life into the ocean, adapting the inhabitants to a futuristic idea that sees human starting to create a community beyond the sea. By structural modulation, a capsule integrated into the structure as part as joint network with the rest of the building and public infrastructure. It is a structure that acts as an urban tool where each of the capsule could become both a commercial and residential area.
Rather than creating an isolated capsule, We proposed a capsule system where the inhabitants can live and work (according to their job). the system ensures that each capsule is dependent on one another to form one single working unit (a dualsystem). These combined units will become a public facilities to the communities, e.g retail stores restaurant, offices, school etc. These capsules can be stacked up vertically or horizontally to create one large "unit". An "offshore city" is not only to solve overpopulation issues, but also to harvest new form of energy from the sea [h2o], which is hydrogen fuel. Hydrogen is an ideal fuel source since its only by product is water. It is clean, cheap and abundant since 75% of our planet is of water. Therefore, a structure that breaks free from the urban fabric and function as a self-sufficient ambassadors in the sea. It is self-sufficient because it generates its own energy (hydrogen fuel) to sustain itself (the capsules.) while releasing back the harvested oxygen into the air.
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