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[Deployable] Aquatic Ecosystems Regeneration LAB_00707

Current Location: Mendocino, CA
39.3077° N, 123.7995° W
Studio Clifford
Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo
Fall 2022
We currently exist in the anthropocene epoch, a time period in which human activities have impacted the environment enough to constitute distinct and quantifiable geological change. Greenhouse gas emissions, global deforestation, and the general pollution of biodiverse ecosystems (as well as the subsequent impacts of these larger blanket terms) are only a small fraction of the environmental degradation humans perpetually commit on planet earth. Even with a clear understanding of the damage we continue to cause, we as a society carry on in our own willfully-ignorant ways whispering comforting soliloquies of self-deception, “Even if I wanted a difference to be made, how significant of a difference could I, alone, really make?” Is it possible that we as individuals, and as a society, have become desensitized to the impacts our existence has on the environments we inhabit?

This project questions how architecture can impact how we humans perceive, interact, and care for the environments we inhabit. The Hydro-Link is a deployable research facility which provides visitors the ability to take-part in the active regeneration of aquatic ecosystems; the intent of this architecture is to programmatically empower human intervention in preventing environmental regeneration while serving as a catalyst in shifting the paradigms of our relationship with the sensitive environments we deliberately destroy. 






Phase 01:
Invasive Eviction 
Phase 02:
Controlled Spawning
Phase 03:
Predator Nursing + EcoReintroduction 





Link Design + Program
Dimetric Drawing
rhino 3D model, adobe illustrator



Phase_01 Visual
digital college
png on png, adobe photoshop

Phase 01 Lab
Interior Rendering
rhino 3D model, blender, adobe photoshop


 

Phase 02 Visual
digital collage
adobe photoshop 

Master Plan from Above [kelp cultivation of bouy extensions]
Exterior Rendering
rhino 3D model, blender, adobe photoshop



Phase 03 Visual  
Digital College
photoshop

Sea Otter Nursery
Exterior Rendering
rhino 3D model, blender, photoshop




Arrival of Additional Link [program unspecified]
Perspective Rendering
rhino 3D model, blender, photoshop






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