Shiphab:

Research Campus for Global Oceans^TM

Location: Offshore
Partner: Adriana Hinojosa
Critics: Christian Lynch, Reese Campbell
Archived: Fall 2018


Selected to be exhibited in Museum Without Building: A Project by Yona Friedman. Organized by Sylvie Boulanger, Nicholas Vargelis, Dylan Gauthier, August-September 2019

Sponsored by Global Oceans, this proposal attempts to solve the issues faced by scientific researchers on off-shore fleets. With no definite site, no definitve user, and no program, this project challenges architects to design for adaptive reuse as well as for a high degree of functional specificity, while maintaining key concepts focused in structural efficiency, ephemerality, and adaptability.  An analysis of conditions on off-shore vessels, revealed complicated circulation between the laboratories and a lack of program for the researchers. An abstraction of the woven circulation through models and drawings, created the idea of the possibility of a more continuous and integrated system of research, leisure, and crew work through vertical and horizontal space. Through differently deployed airlock systems and organizational strategies, space and form are woven into the programmatic oblique, an in between space that represents the functionalities and performances of the researchers and crew members on board. 

Oblique Drodels
(drawings + models)

Through vertical nodes and horizontal circuits, the programmatic oblique provides researchers with a high degree of spatial specificity in regards to different institutionalized research topics, as well as leisure and recreational spaces for an improved quality of life on board.