Team: Laura Lee, Silvia Cernea

“An Abode Afloat” envisions an archipelago of self-sustaining, man-made floating homes that integrate cyclical systems of debris capture, storage, and off-site recycled brick-making. The resulting aggregation creates a barrier that catches trash, ensuring clean shores. Made from a buoyant aggregate of non-organic debris, the bricks easily fit into structural columns. Each home also possesses its own water-filtration and solar energy harnessing system. The PV panels tiling the angled roofs create the individual microgrid, powering each unit. An aquatic site minimizes the issue of space inherent when building on land. The unit consists of modules that can be expanded as families grow or conditions change. The resulting self-constructed floating houses and amenities create an expanding community in which everyone is the designer of their environment and waste is not something that’s hidden, rather reused to reshape and envelope the very essence of Home.

Solo work

Developing the idea of bubbling, liquid champagne in a flute into an inhabitable form, the project seeks to meld together a solid. grounded form with an amorphous, flowing one. borrowing from both spirit and physicality to yield the concept. A structural steel frame covered in ETFE allows for an interior experience that plays with light and ranges from transparent to opaque depending on the exterior and interior conditions. The structure consists of a steel frame that supports the floor plates and the ETFE interior/exterior shell. The center core brings in light and acts as the main circulation center. This was a solo entry for [AC-CAi's[P ARISC) hampagne Bar Competition.