_workshop / competition
Floating University Berlin
17.5. - 20.5.2022
Riga Floating Bridge
1st prize
hubbitat
Main aim was to create a place for people to come together with different perceptions of peace. Everyone can create their own habitat by connecting/disconnecting platforms and/or also find their space inside the strcuture. That way is the “cheerios effect” applied not only on platforms which attract or repel one another but also on people who come together from two different shores. The whole experience is amplified by crossing the canal in a small boat which enters and passes through the central hub representing "mothership" - a landmark on the Zunda canal, some sort of “lantern” in the night revealing through translucent materials that the space is alive. The central cubical structure is floating on the canal, right in the middle of two axis of the main roads leading to two separate faculties, symbolizing equality, compromise and unity.
Cheerios effect - In fluid mechanics, the Cheerios effect is a colloquial name for the phenomena of floating objects appearing to either attract
or repel one another.
or repel one another.
Habitat - The natural home or environment of an animal, plant, or other organism. A person's usual or preferred surroundings.
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conceptual development
catalog of functions / spaces
axonometric explosion
Mier[s]
Nauris Lukjanovichs, Radovan Szabó, Klaudia Ovadová
Thank you!
