Parc de la Ocean: A Marine Survival Narrative
Speculative Environments
Supervisor - Dr. Joseph Lim
The trend of sea-based architecture tends to veer towards megastructure projects. These look at water the same way as land; just build on top of it. But the ocean is much more dynamic than that.
If the land is characterised by surface location, the ocean is not only characterised by that, but also by depth. Those projects also look at the ocean as a snapshot in time, but climate change is already setting events in motion whose effects will surface decades later.
The Narrative follows three of the UK’s most prominent Military Sea Forts as their design and usage change over the years based on environmental and human factors. Their form suggest different ways of dealing with the sea as a built environment; to deal with sea depth, access, and functional planning.
