If we can believe that it isn’t all just about us, then we can believe in everything else. Architecture is not solely for humans, not solely for living things: it is for beings of all shapes and sizes. Simultaneously, if climate change will flood our cities and civilizations as we currently know them, can architecture plan for the future? This project critically analyzed and playfully offered a solution to the problem of coastal flooding: building for the future (and the accompanying inhabitants) in mind. Thus came: a pavilion for a human, and later for an octopus.
the mood. gyotaku prints of the case study, the octopus.
right: the prosthetic. a simulator to experience what it feels like to be an octopus. made from melted and molded recycled plastic bags.
image one. present day
image two. 50 years on
image three. 80 years on