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Artificial Islands: Projects, Journals & Ideas

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Artificial islands represent a frontier in architectural design where land and water intersect. These projects explore how designers can create habitable, sustainable environments through innovative engineering and adaptive strategies in aquatic contexts.

The community examines floating architecture, island restoration, modular waterfront development, and adaptive reuse of existing structures in marine settings. Work ranges from conceptual visions of sustainable floating communities to realized projects that revitalize forgotten islands and waterfront spaces.

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Devanshi Gajjar1 work

Ovidiu Cristian Pavel1 work

Adam de Vere1 work

Charlie Isham1 work

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YongYi and 3 others

Floating boundary

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".

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.

Saranda and 3 others

ORPHIC

Orphic, meaning, mysterious and entrancing; beyond ordinary understanding, was chosen due to the hidden structure behind the long spruce trees. And giving a mysterious sensation when approaching the island with a boat.

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.

Devanshi

Panju Island: Community towards better Future

Eco-tourism model for an estuarine island in Vasai Creek, Mumbai. The project is intended to create harmony between the existing ecology and the community living on the island.

Violet and Sharron

Aquatic Alveolus

The project is based on a strategic way of placing spaces on a site. The center of the community would be the energy sources that would symbolize the heart. Our pods/living quarters would be the lungs. And the community transportation tunnels are the veins.

Ovidiu Cristian

Ocean Life Architecture

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 islands light and sustainable. I used a problem as a solution

Xavier

Current Interventions..The New Frontier

A vertical consolidated submersible and self-sustainable station that intercepts the upwelling currents catching nutrients. The stations contribute to the propagation of endangered species by providing artificial liquid spaces by concrete membranes as well containing plankton from upwelling currents in the coral reef.

Calvin

DRIFT

Worlds apart, separated by translucent and ballasted membranes. Architecture unto water as a drifting entity of observation, meditation and inter-terrestrial connection. Architecture could be topical, above, below, or carried with the falling of waves. The eroded platform becomes the microcosm, adrift in the Adriatic, only kept near through the anchored Rig.

Mayar

Idigna Renewal Islands

"From neglected islands to ecological lifelines" the Tigris River (Idigna), once the heart of Mesopotamian civilization, now faces severe pollution. This project reimagines its islands through ecological and architectural interventions. Using Idigna Island as a prototype, it creates a replicable river regeneration model centered on research and culture

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UNI Editorial

publishedBlog2 months ago

ONOMA Architecture Rescues a 1958 Mercer Island Home and Gives It a Second Life

A full gut renovation on a wooded Mercer Island lot preserves midcentury Douglas fir bones while rethinking every wall around them.

Island

Artificial Islands

UNI Editorial

publishedBlog5 months ago

mmkplus Resurrects a Forgotten Artificial Island on Seoul's Han River as a Modular Cultural Park

Nodeul Island Park reclaims a 30-acre abandoned landmass with terraced plazas, a performance hall, and a village-like grid of public life.

Island

City Park

UNI Editorial

publishedResults2 weeks ago

Proximity Island Frame: A Floating Platform That Holds the Horizon Still While the Sea Moves

qiaoxi wu's Editor's Choice entry rides existing offshore columns with the tide, framing the sea-sky line as a fixed datum in a restless ocean.

Ocean Architecture

Seaside Architecture

UNI Editorial

publishedResults2 weeks ago

Proximity Island: An Abandoned Oil Rig Reborn as a Vertical Cultural Ecosystem at Sea

Sasha Pokidova stacks galleries, research spaces and co-housing cells inside a sponge-like hexagonal skin, turning offshore industry into a micro-city.

Futuristic Floating Residents

Artificial Islands