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COMMUNICATING VESSELS
Code PSC012
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
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