11Honorable MentionProximity IslandRepurposing 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.
2DRIFTWorlds 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.
6Editor's ChoiceTaken from the ocean and return from the oceanUtilizing 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.
61Proximity 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.
