Aquatecture

Drawing on the computer-supported techniques of structured planning, Aquatecture is a project from ID's Systems and Systematic Design course — a conceptual systems design project focused on using water resources for food production, transportation, energy development, and manufacturing. Four individual subprojects deal with these subjects: Floating Fields, CrossRoads in the Sea, Patterned Energy, and Mobile Offshore Industry. Each of the four projects speculated on how a “macro-designed” environment might be developed using available technology to expand the uses of the seas, lakes, and rivers as space, media, and sources of energy, food, and raw materials. In 1987, Aquatecture won the Japan Design Foundation’s third International Design Competition. Students: Craig Zaplatynsky and Srirang Jambhekar. Faculty: Chuck Owen.