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The Garden of Belfast Delights

Part 2 Project 2017
Rebecca-Jane McConnell
 Queen's University Belfast | UK
The Garden of Belfast Delights looks at the Northern Irish city of the future beset by climate-change induced flooding and accelerated immigration. Drawing on the concept of apocalypse meaning ‘revelation’, and channelling the near eponymous painting by Bosch, my proposal is to repurpose disused rigs as a new typology for the built environment. It will imagine a city floating above the inundation, arranged according to contours of the Victoria Channel.


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2017
Sea level rise projections for Belfast
Strategic abandonment – early concept development
Bricolage of Belfast – repurposing of redundant sea platforms
The linear city – concept development
Site plan – linear spined extendable city
Contextual exploration - rigs vs. Cave hill
Compilation of rigs – inundation vs. city growth
Section of the linear city – suspended rail, walking bridge, vertical and horizontal growth
First point of contact – dealing with demographic shift
Triptych section through the city – panel 1: air – panel 2: City working + living – panel 3: first point of contact, dealing with demographic influx
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