"Landscape designer Jie Han explores this challenge with a visionary installation, Living with Water. Rather than resisting or concealing water, the project embraces it as an active participant in daily life, proposing floating architecture that adapts to shifting landscapes in the future. The intervention is a powerful demonstration of Jie Han's belief that we can design a future where people not only survive but live meaningfully with water."
"The design for Jie Han's Living with Water installation is guided by the principle of 'hypernature', a concept that intentionally amplifies natural processes. Along the Richmond shoreline, tides fluctuate by several feet each day. Han's design amplifies these movements through spatial and ecological design, transforming an abstract concept into a visceral, embodied experience. The centerpiece of the design is a dome with a diameter of 23 feet, anchored to the bay floor."
Sea levels along the San Francisco Bay are projected to rise dramatically, prompting a design response that embraces water as an active participant in daily life. The proposal uses the principle of hypernature to amplify tidal movements into spatial and ecological experiences along the Richmond shoreline. A 23-foot-diameter dome anchors to the bay floor while its interior floor floats with the water, compressing and submerging the interior as tides rise. Scalable domes, linked by bridges, create a new vernacular of floating architecture for communal and intimate activities, integrating social function with ecological performance and adaptive habitation.
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