Proximity Island 2019

Architectural Ideas for Repurposing an Oil rig

Italy

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Winner

1 Entry

Jákob and 3 others

ArchiPelago - The sea satellite

ArchiPelago is a revitalized oil station recontextualizing the idea how abandoned industrial constructions in the middle of the sea can be reused. It offers new dimensions that emerge from the metaphors of water and introduces contemporary/sustainable design ideas to combine multi-purpose functions in offshore conditions .

Runner-up

1 Entry

Daria

‘CORAL’ization

Project explores the possible relationship between architecture and coral reefs. The concept is to transform a massive metal structure into a natural formation resembling a rock or cave right in the middle of the sea.

Honorable Mention

6 Entries

gabriele

Vertigo

The basic idea is to create a very strong, high and distinguishable iconic architectural sign: the two platforms become the support base of two installations-towers that welcome the functions inside them and become a path that stands on the sea. VERTIGO is the height, the amazement, the wonder, the fear, the restlessness.

Mahta and 3 others

OLD CREATURES

The project is walking on an edge where identity and sustainability meet each other. The mother of fossil fuels which have ruined the environment during years and now, it is Old Creatures. Nothing is new, everything is recycled, the old containers and the old barrels. The live facade made by sheets of the old containers.

Agur-Andri

Between Sky and Water

The structure of the oil rig as an industrial element is reimagined in the most aesthetical way being converted into a unique getaway oasis, museum and science centre between sky and water, where people can brake away from their everyday routine. The building is in the middle of nowhere yet surrounded with a sea full of life giving endless possibilites.

Alena

The Hyper Armida

The first underwater art village

Charlie and Adam

Proximity Island

Repurposing an oil rig to repent for its sins as a tool for ecocide by designing a modular city that helps users change their attitudes towards nature and the sea through art, learning, research and contemplation.

Charisse

Of Water & Spirit

This proposal draws from Ravenna’s early Christian baptisteries and postwar industrial history, in the hope of creating a public space that confronts visitors with the weight of its history, and inspires them by its connection to nature.

People's Choice Award

1 Entry

Georges and Charbel

294

Mechanism of Memories

A living machine in the memory of those alive

Editor's Choice

8 Entries

qiaoxi

Proximity Island- Frame

A fllating object that rises and falls with the surface Freeze the line where the sea meets the sky Between moving and not moving It's a fragile space continually being comprssed

Zhenxiong and 2 others

Salinetorium

A museum park and factory island that sustain itself and provide a space for learning about the life cycle of salt, the importance of water, and the significance of renewable versus non renewable energy. We explore the potential of using salt as a material to slowing transform the rig into a human habitat and later an extension of the proximate water.

Vladyslav and Irina

Distant shore museum

Dreams of life in between two powerful elements.

Shi

Proximity Island: A Nomadic Future

The proximity island will be the habitation of marine life in the long run. In the short run, it grants people a chance to reevaluate their relationship with ocean life and environment. It is not only an anchor point stand in ocean but also a turning point of an coexisting condition that is upcoming.

Ishan

Ridare

Ridare is a repurposed design of a decommissioned oil rig.

圆圆

Taken from the ocean and return from the ocean

Utilizing its unique geographical advantages and its affinity with surrounding marine life for many years, it will be endowed with more functions and transformed into a new bridge between nature and mankind that reversely supplies the ocean. Give mankind more to communicate with the ocean; to be friends with the ocean; to talk to nature.

Hannah Rose and 2 others

GIRLIO

GIRLIO re-purposes the oil rig as a center for Artists-at-Sea and Scientists-at-Sea to research and curate new discoveries in marine biology through an experiential archive for sea life. Scientists will research cutting-edge discoveries surrounding the future of undersea ecosystems while artists will craft new findings into multi-sensory installations.

Kshir and Sumbul

ANACHRONOS

The oil rig is perceived as an element in-between shores. It is a very prominent feature on the horizon. It exists in plain sight- as something that could be part of the shore and yet exists beyond the shore. In the nothingness of the sea, it becomes Anachronos. Ana from the Greek prefix meaning again and Chronos meaning time.

Shortlisted

14 Entries

Krzysztof

"Heart of the Ocean"

The main idea of the project is to combine the normally understood building structure with the power of the element into a kinetic hybrid. It aims to symbolize synergy between human activity and ocean power. The effect of this combination are two large oceanic waterfalls which appear flooding the existing object.

Vittorio and Roozbeh

ICEFORM

As more oil platforms raise the more Ice bergs claps. One put the existence of another in danger. And expand the shadow over human future. Our approach towards this project was to transform the platform into small Iceberg and at the same time It would manifest and reminder of our compact on planet with using of fossil fuels.

Sasha

Proximity Island.

Proximity Island is the full-fledged cultural environment on a platform that is initially divorced both physically and semantically from the world of art and ordinary human life. It is the symbol of the sea, a symbol of the unity of architecture and nature.

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Proximity Island 2019

Winner

ArchiPelago - The sea satellite

Runner-up

‘CORAL’ization

Honorable Mention

Vertigo

OLD CREATURES

Between Sky and Water

The Hyper Armida

Proximity Island

Of Water & Spirit

People's Choice Award

Mechanism of Memories

Editor's Choice

Proximity Island- Frame

Salinetorium

Distant shore museum

Proximity Island: A Nomadic Future

Ridare

Taken from the ocean and return from the ocean

GIRLIO

ANACHRONOS

Shortlisted

"Heart of the Ocean"

ICEFORM

Proximity Island.

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