MANGtown Code PAC024 We have applied a right strategy to occupy the area with minimum damage for the Mangrove using road, fingers, minifingers and platforms raised on "pilotis". This system works like urban infiltration in the landscape and creates a 3D plot (soil + platform + roof). It is a hybrid system. The chosen site is located in a Mangrove zone that has perfect features to the development of the Amphibious Living subject. The Mangrove is a seaside ecosystem that is formed near the rivers estuaries by the interaction of sea water and continental water. It has a salty, swampy soil, rich in nutrients, that provides the development of market value species like shrimp, small lobsters, molluscs and fishes. The Mangrove is composed by a dense vegetation with big curved roots or perpendiculars roots to the ground. This system has very strong influence of the tides and the floods. That makes the soil sometimes flooded sometimes soggy, making a mutant limit between land and water. Therefore, we applied a right occupation strategy to deal with the landscape without destroying the environment. A hybrid system. Infiltration > > using fingers and platforms raised on "pilotis", we can occupy the area with minimum damage for the vegetation and the soil. So the vegetation can grow and the water can easily flow under the buildings. This system also protects the constructions against the hazard of flood and mix them with the landscape like urban infiltration in the rain forest [pic. 1 and 3] Infrastructures > > 4 scales of circulating structures had been created to allow the access, the flux among the houses and the inbound of the urban infrastructures: secondary road > fingers > minifingers raised on "pilotis", these structures walk around the landscape and carry shafts under their floor in order to pass networks - water, sewer, energy, gas and telecommunication [pic. 2 ]. By constructing in phases, these structures are working planes for the building process in order to minimise the ecological impact in the Mangrove. They are divided in a hierarchical way to allow the access of all kind of urban services. The flux on the secondary road and on the fingers are for vehicles. The minifingers are restricted to pedestrians and bicycles circulation. And also the minifingers are an alternative for pedestrians and bicycles during the floods. river > is used to access the beach and to connect most of the fingers, by canoes or small boats. Amphibious platforms > > on each raised platform, the houses are grouped in 3 to reduce the number of pillars and as a consequence the environmental impact in the Mangrove is decreased. The idea of individual plot is left away. The platforms are raised on "pilotis" and torn by holes, allowing the development of the mangrove under them. These holes also create a neighbourhood relationship[pic. 4]. 3D plot > total use of the plot area in 3 levels[pic. 2,4 and 7]: >SOIL>full contact with the nature>public space >PLATFORM>contact with the exterior without harming the nature>half-public space >ROOF>landscape visual domain>privade space Dwelling > > a container house with services modules, infrastructures and the panels as plug-ins, creating a flexible housing system. Totally mountable, the dwelling can receive different kinds of material according to the necessity of the inhabitant. And it also can grow from 36 m2 (2 structural modules) up to 90 m2 (5 structural modules). Thus that flexible system answers to a varied demand of inhabitants profiles [pic. 5 and 6]. double skin > the relationship between the panels and the second skin (internal) generates multiple levels of intimacy and perception inside and outside depending on the way of using them [pic. 6]. Foundation and superstructure > > the foundations are industrial props of concrete. The superstructures are also industrial pieces assembled by parts and later plugged to the foundation. This is a flexible solution to apply to the variable system of land and water of the Mangrove.