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Posts Tagged ‘floating islands’

Sublime/Ridiculous

I'm still very interested in the idea of floating islands as a paradigm for future architectures. This has arisen out of my responses to a range of future challenges such as future sea-level rise, increasing population, the possible future reliance on aquaculture for food. I suspect it also stems from the Australian cultural (and my personal) connection to the coast →


Keywords & Quick Links

Looking deeper into the Biorock or as it's also called "Seament" (thanks to Pia via twitter for the link) I've stumbled upon a few terms or keywords that have helped me focus: Biomimetics (also called Biomimicry or Bionics), Biogenic Structures, and something I'm interested in pursuing in terms of our self-sustaining autopoietic community, that is Aquaculture and/or Mariculture. I've also stumbled →