COMMUNICATING VESSELS

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The new housing is going to be settled in between two main streets, and is organised on a regular square-shaped lot. Along the grid each unit can have free docking, according to owners will, in order to create a urban system as flexible as amphibious landscapes is.

According to the competition request, the project tries to explore the possibility to seattle a new housing in a soggy soil. We imagine it as a plane area, conditioned by seasonal and daily water floods and crossed by a unique fixed element to the ground which is the highway. Elevating bridges, connect the road level to the settlement the settlement is created by a process of landscape occupancy free from compositive burdens which leads to an hybrid mix of dwellings and nature. The new housing is going to be settled in between two main streets, and is organised on a regular square-shaped lot. Along the grid each unit can have free docking, according to owners will, in order to create a urban system as flexible as amphibious landscapes is.

The public buildings are located near the highway taking a filter action between the road and the houses. People are free to settle their houses separated or connected to the others in accordance to private needs relating privacy, communication, sharing, and environment respect and weather factors. Water is the main element in dwelling's life. The water floor is permanently plunged and first floor is permanently plunged. The house in fact is provided by a floating system all around its perimeter, so that the structure can rise with the increasing level of the water, at the same time of the street.

A coupling-mechanism join the dwelling to the streets, in this way dwellings and streets create a floating coherent element which doesn't need to be anchored to the ground. The building is watertight is kept in strict visual contact with water. Most of the windows are concentrated around the patio. The water invades it, reflects light and sun inside the first floor and captures them down to the water floor.

Rain flows along the glass-gutters that go through the buildings. In a small evocative swimming pool water is closed inside a glass blade, from the sea flood that invade the patio. The water floodwater penetrates into the inside space and almost shares the house in two parts, apparently independent and private to leaving. The living space is located at the first floor looking at the water patio below as well as a suspended garden aside