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2100 Macau, China: Shifting Attitudes for our Vulnerable Future

Part 2 Project 2018
Eva Pontika
Samantha Hamilton
Charlie Glenton
University of Plymouth | UK
Like many coastal cities, Macau faces devastating challenges posed by rapid climatic changes of the 2100 predicted rising sea levels. The proposal introduces an artefact, a groyne, which forms a shifting landscape. This ecosystem is a flood management device, a natural sponge to protect the city. The presense of the device within the shifting landscape, challenges perceptions about values of nature, landscape and ecology through recording its ever-changing condition.

Tutor(s)
Mr Robert Brown
2018
The Groyne in the context of the city and the shifted landscape
Macau flooding-2100 future predictions
Working methodology-adopting a surrogate environment through beach studies
Urban Strategy-Concrete groynes in situ, create a sponge for flood management for the city of Macau
Presense in the landscape-The stereotomic structure holds back the mass of water and weathers in time
A deep carving, a threshold between land, water and city
Above and below water- an atmospheric section through the concrete core of the exhibition spaces
Tectonic Shifting laboratories collect samples through the submersion of the veil façade
Typhoon event- Shifting working platforms and laboratories raise out of harm’s way
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