Afloat - Result Story

With her slogan “How dare you?” Greta Thunberg awakened millions and questioned the leaders across the world on Climate Change and its impact. A global change in weather and other adverse indicators have displayed that climate change is not a distant future anymore. Forest fires, floods, droughts, receding shorelines, rising global temperatures, are some of the natural disasters that have substantially increased in the past decade. 

Rising sea levels are now said to be responsible for receding shorelines and would cause the submerging of some of the major coastal cities. The new research shows that about 150 million people that are now living on land will be below the high-tide line by 2050.

Cities will find themselves in the epicenter of this challenge in no time. 

In the light of predicted water levels, the Govt. of Indonesia has begun the relocation of their capital city Jakarta to Borneo. While we know that the city of Jakarta has already been inhabited and damaged, can design resolve this for the inhabitants of the future by adapting to aquaculture that is going to prevail after major parts of the city have submerged.

Brief: The challenge here is to create a prototype of a replicable Flood Resilient Neighborhood in Jakarta.  

The jury for the competition consisted of esteemed designers, professionals, and academicians from around the world. The Lead Jurors for the competitions were as follows: 

Budi Pradono, Founder, budipradono architects a+u, Jakarta, Indonesia

Iklim Tanumihardja, Principle, Aurasia Design, Jakarta, Indonesia

Erick Kristanto, Principal Architect / Founder, Studio Kota, Jakarta, Indonesia

Rudy Kelana, Principal Architect, WAHANA ARCHITECTS, Jakarta, Indonesia

Ary Indra, Co-Founder, Aboday, Jawa Tengah, Indonesia

 

Some of the Best of competition projects as follows:

 

Winning Project: AQUAVILLE

By: Yash Jain, Subham Jain & Joseph Aerathu

Description: The Project posits a future architecture that envisions a new understanding of Aquatecture. This project envisions Neighbourhoods - rehabilitating climate refugees, safeguarding culture, sense of belonging, and also promoting seasteading. To envisage cities like Jakarta have to be future proof is the goal against rising sea levels.

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Runner Up: Ocean Life Archipelago

By: Ovidiu Cristian Pavel

Description: The idea behind it is to create a sustainable world with the resources we have. In this case, the economic side is essential for the success of the project, and therefore to lower costs, I used plastic in the ocean to float the islands and also used a system of bamboo, a local material, to make the island's light and sustainable. I used a problem as a solution

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People’s Choice: Adaptive Dwellings

By: Misak Terzibasiyan

Description: The main concept of the project is inspired by the traditional Bajau house. First, the triangular roof extended to the surface of the ocean, and then the roof extended to create platforms inside and outside the building. Thanks to this change in the traditional form of the Bajau house, the building has been able to be floated.

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Editor’s Choice: Synapse

By: Ram Arora, Ozk & Riju Aggarwal

Description: A Floating Aquapolis

Editor’s Choice: Editable Floating Community

By: 浩良 陈 & Young Lee

Description: The design concept is an editable floating community spontaneously generated according to the residents' wishes. While fully respecting the residents' use needs, the whole community can be flexible and changeable with the ocean characteristics.

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Editor’s Choice: Marine Self-Circulation Ranch

By: Xingda Wang & carry one

Description: With the increasing threat of land subsidence and sea level rise in Jakarta, Indonesia, it is hoped that by building a self-circulating community at sea based on production factors, a solution can be provided for the floating life of the local poor.

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Editor’s Choice: Motion Onions

By: Paulina Wojnarowicz, Jan Kwaśnik, Jan Warchol & Julia Gębska

 

Description: Housing estate that adjusts to the surrounding context. It is completely independent of the land, therefore it can adapt to the changes occuring in the coastline. The only permanent elements of the estate are bulwarks, which is also used as a breakwater. Each housing unit is situated on a frame with a float, which is an integral part of the 3D farm system.

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Editor’s Choice: 漂浮聚落

By: William Feng

Description: The scheme fully combines the core elements of Jakarta culture and settlement development, creates a sustainable and resilient community through a modular framework, and creates ecological habitat system to meet various residential requirements, so as to protect the future floating threat of the community.

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Editor’s Choice: FVOLUTION

By: ACHARIYA TIPNET

Description: The transformation of the indonesian capital when the city is flooded, the lives of the people of indonesia will be rapidly changed. people, environment, utilities will gradually disappear in the future. Water levels will gradually increase. People will have to adapt every 10 years to live in indonesia. the indonesian city of jakarta was conceived

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Editor’s Choice: Floating boundary

By: Yong Yi He, 宇程 冯, Rui Fala & 浩东 严

Description: We hope to use the idea of symbiosis with nature and the original image of the city as a prototype to createa memorial place with humanistic care and critical spirit, and to shape this site into the control and warning boundary of maritime "construction".

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