A S P I R E
T O S U R V I V E
How can architecture adapt and respond to a changing climate, with rising sea levels creating an issue for the way we live?
ASPIRE is an architectural response that takes advantage of the existing built environment, to create an adaptable, responsive architectural solution to rising sea levels. Set in 2119, ASPIRE is composed of three separated pod formations that house students and young-professionals in flats of four. Each pod can turn around a central elevator core, allowing each structure to insert itself into the complicated environment that is created by exisiting building heights and forms.
This project shifts public life on to the tops of exisiting buildings, whilst ASPIRE incorporates a suspension bridge to connect these new public spaces. Floating on the water between ASPIRE structures, are public walkways that provide access and a separation between highly public commuted spaces and more private 'alley ways'.
My objective throughout this project was to provide small housing solutions to the user. This became an issue when the project shifted underwater, as the entrapment and confinement of underwater life proved challenging. Through form, materiality and lighting, ASPIRE aims to create calming relaxing housing solutions that create a binary between public 'rushed' life and private 'relaxed' life. Technology was incorporated to combat this disparity between Public and Private.
Structural Resistance
