design + affect: Program Phase 01

3.04.2008

Program Phase 01

Population Data_
Researchers_ 25
Family_ 45
Staff_ 20

Module Data_
A Module =45.3’ Module ≈5 levels ≈10,000 square feet
B Module =28’ Module ≈2 levels ≈1,500 square feet
C Module =17.6’ Module ≈2 levels ≈500 square feet
Solo Module =6.6’ Module =1 person

Topside Level_ 22 modules + 125 units
Recreational Landscape_ 3 A modules
Multi-sport Courts_ 2 A modules
Community Space_ 3 B modules
Exercise Space_ 2 B modules
Restaurant_ B module
Bathrooms / Maintenance_ Integrated
Atmospheric Laboratory_ 2 B modules
Radio + Communications Center_ B module
Solar Desalinization Units_ 100 units (one per capita)
Induction Wind Turbines_ 25 units (1/4 per capita)
Solo Pods_ 8 Solo modules

Volatile Level_ 12 modules
Main Leeward Port Entrance_ B module
Secondary Escape Port_ B module
Floating / Submersible Platform Landscape_ 10 B modules
Bathrooms / Maintenance_ Integrated

Coral Level_ 38 modules
Housing Units_ 12 B modules
Bathrooms_ Integrated
Experiment Frameworks_ 5 C modules
Sample Traps_ Integrated
Coral ‘Moonpool’ Laboratory_ Integrated
Decompression Chambers_ 2 C modules
Dry Specimen Laboratory_ 2 C modules
Community Space_ 2 B modules
Bathrooms / Maintenance_ Integrated
Restaurant_ B module
Movie Theatre_ C module
Public Computer Center / Server_ B module
Solo Pods_ 12 Solo modules

150-200m_ 25 units
Current Driven Turbines_ 25 Units (1/4 per capita)

300m Level_ 13 modulesSaturated Dive Laboratory_ B module
Decompression Chambers_ 2 C modules
Robotics Control Laboratory_ C module
Restaurant_ B module
Bathrooms / Maintenance_ Integrated
Computer Lab_ C moduleMovie Theatre_ C module

Submersible Dry Port_ B module

Solo Pods_ 5 Solo Modules

Seafloor Level_ 1 module
Uninhabited AUV + Submersible Charge Port_ B Module
Data Port_ Integrated
Sample Receptacle + Lift_ Integrated

Vertical Circulation_ 8 units
Buoyancy Elevators_ 2 units
Infrequent Non-Volatile Carbon Tendon Shuttles_ 3 units
Construction + Maintenance Cranes + Ports_ 3 units

External_
Kelp + Algae Growth Pods_ 100 units (1 per capita)
Fish Farm + Collection Pods_ 50 units (1/2 per capita)
Wave Energy Generation Buoys_ 25 units (1/4 per capita)

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Thesis Statement: Systems Integration

Architecture in its current state is isolated because it does not recognize itself as an adaptive system within a larger constantly evolving network. Subtractive, analytical processes serve to isolate the subject from the very factors which define them, while systemic processes derive order from cooperative interaction with dynamic systems.

Systemic integration is a way of understanding and evolving the connections between systems which have previously been understood as singular elements. This thesis specifically explores the ocean as an environmental network and a mechanism to be experienced.

The existing structures of oil platforms in the Gulf of Mexico provide a framework to which an architectural system can be applied to initiate this investigation. The oil platform as it exists currently is exclusively industrial and does not relate to the oceanic context but draws only from the oil reserves beneath the sea floor. To the oil company; when the reserves are dry, so ends the life of the platform. Thinking about this structural system as a part of a network allows performative and experiential systems to be designed for and integrated into the existing network.

This thesis explores how architecture can be designed through a process of compositing informational systems, which then informs the design network, which becomes the architecture. The architecture as a realized project and a process becomes an integrative tool.

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I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

_Sir Isaac Newton, from Brewster, Memoirs of Newton (1855)

A band pointing towards the ocean epitomizing what human endeavor can accomplish at one scale with geometric clarity but modest deliberation, to give the scaleless sweep of the ocean.

_Louis I. Kahn

All of us have in our veins the exact same percentage of salt in our blood that exists in the ocean, and, therefore, we have salt in our blood, in our sweat, in our tears. We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea -- whether it is to sail or to watch it -- we are going back from whence we came.

_John F. Kennedy, Speech given at Newport at the dinner before the America's Cup Races, September 1962

Knowledge is not a series of self consistent theories that converges toward an ideal view; it is rather an ever increasing ocean of mutually incompatible (and perhaps even incommensurable) alternatives, each single theory, each fairy tale, each myth that is a part of the collection forcing the others into greater articulation and all of them contributing, via this process of competition, to the development of our consciousness.

_Paul Feyerabend

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