World of Water Hyacinth.
What if a home could change its relationship to the ground?
World of Water Hyacinth is a speculative proposal for housing amid disrupted patterns of settlement. Developed in the context of the pandemic and rising-water scenarios, it imagines prefabricated homes that can form different groupings on land and water. The project tests adaptability through components, assembly, and the scale of a community.
The collage explores a possible arrangement of homes on water within the competition proposal.
Begin with a unit that can be assembled.
The proposed unit uses a lightweight steel frame, bolted connections, and prefabricated panels. Services are integrated into the framework. Inflatable compartments are conceived within the base as a flotation mechanism. The system drawing sets out these ideas as parts of a speculative building method.
The diagram traces how residential and shared units might regroup across everyday, pandemic, and changing-water scenarios.
Let the grouping change with the conditions.
The architectural question extends beyond a single floating home. Individual units are imagined as part of a larger community that can rearrange its relationships as circumstances change. The tall collage brings together a supporting framework, inhabited modules, and different possible positions within the system.
The collage explores the relationship between repeated dwelling units and a larger framework for communal life.
Component / Home / Community
Adaptation across more than one scale.
The proposal uses an imagined floating settlement to investigate how the construction of a dwelling and the organisation of a community might respond together to change.
Back to the beginning ↑- Studio
- Competition
- Instructor
- Zukang Lei
- Collaboration
- Team work with: Zemin Yan, Yaoxin Xu, Fangdong Hong, Xuejing Li