Aqua Module
Modular water-based design systems and aquatic architecture exploring adaptable spatial solutions.
Aqua Module encompasses design approaches that use water as a structural and programmatic organizing principle. These projects integrate aquatic functions into modular, adaptable frameworks that respond to specific environmental and urban contexts.
The community explores floating structures, portable water systems, and aquatic facilities designed as flexible components. Work ranges from nautilus-shaped aquariums and timber-framed aquatic centers to pocket forests and portable bathroom modules that demonstrate how water-based design can be scaled and reconfigured across different landscapes.
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View all 11 journalsAquadapt: An Underwater Habitat That Rewrites Its Rooms by the Hour
Curved modules ring the seabed while one shell shifts from breakfast room to cinema, farm and football pitch as residents' needs change.
INI Design Studio Coils a Nautilus-Shaped Aquarium into Ahmedabad's Arid Science City
India's first planned inland public aquarium spirals outward from a 27.5-meter atrium to house 12,000 fish across five geographic zones.
Terra e Tuma Scatters Four Concrete Pavilions Through the Atlantic Forest in Mairiporã
A fragmented compound of music studio, art studio, chapel, and living quarters preserves every tree on a steep forested hillside near São Paulo.
ANMA Converts the Site of a Former Orléans Jail into a Timber-Framed Aquatic Center
A low-slung aqualudic complex wrapped in timber and wild grasses replaces a decommissioned prison near the heart of Orléans, France.