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Oil rigs represent significant industrial structures with potential for transformation through adaptive reuse and sustainable design. The community explores how these offshore installations can be reimagined to serve new cultural, environmental, and social purposes.

Members investigate converting defunct rigs into museums, research facilities, and sustainable floating structures that address ecological restoration and commemorate maritime heritage. Projects range from water museums and environmental education centers to floating architectural visions that reintegrate industrial sites with ocean ecosystems.

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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.

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.

Meruert and kremerm

Palazzo Navale

Museum and Research Center for Marine Biology in the Adriatic sea

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.

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.

UNI Editorial

publishedResults1 week 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

UNI Editorial

publishedReview1 week ago