The Wading City comes out of the indeterminacy prevalent in the 2020s, particularly the idea of the city and the building not only as a changing entity but as an adaptable entity addressing rising sea levels, food insecurity, ecological degradation, and local economic downtrends around postindustrial waterfronts. Thus generating an architecture which could respond to the inhabitants’ (both human and non-human) immediate needs, by speculating an alteration to a cement carrier as a walking and floating cyborg infrastructure into an ecosystem of oyster aquaculture, marine habitat simulation, the New York Harbor School and more.
School of Architecture | Graduate Architecture
Student: Ekam Singh
Faculty: Alexandra Barker
Section of a wading city unit depositing an oyster cage
The hull of a cement carrier is converted into a facility for the Billion Oyster Project—an oyster cage of sorts—by integrating tanks, aquaria, suspended floors, and gangways to facilitate a machine that deposits oyster cages on the New York Harbor floor.
The making of the Wading City
