Waterpod is a malleable space. It is built on a co-acting model made up of multiple collaborations. It codifies the language of mobility in contemporary architecture and simultaneously historicizes the notion of the permanent structure. It is a composition, a transport, an island, and a residence. Residing on watered bodies, the Waterpod is able to dock temporarily or travel to international waters, where it can acquire the status of a contained micronation.
As with all art forms, architecture is largely about stories: stories of its inhabitants, its community, its makers and their reflections on the past or expectations of the future. The Waterpod is heavily networked with communications technology, exemplifying a trend towards immateriality, an objectless but continuously recorded space. The Waterpod acts as a singular unit with the possibility to expand into ever-volving water communities that mutate with the tides. It connects river to visitor, global to local, nature to city, and historic to futuristic ecologies. The Waterpod is an extension of body, of home, and of community, the only permanence being change, flow, and multiplicity.
Passage, 2008
Purgatory, 2008
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