Model produced for Kristin School via Isthmus Group Ltd

dedicated to Anne McKenzie and the teaching team at Ferndale Kindergarten

Thesis available here: https://hdl.handle.net/2292/56725

🏅 Auckland Visionary Architecture Award Finalist 2019

Amphibious Architecture: The Tale of Tuvalu (5:49)
In the Pacific region, encroaching waves haunt islanders' dreams; particularly in Tuvalu's archipelago where rising sea levels are on the verge of swallowing two of its nine islands.

This project proposes the construction of a series of floating farms made from locally available materials, using native flora and upcycling common waste products from imported goods.

Process + Project Interview: CRITSPACE (13:55)
’Hugo's project is centered around embracing floating and amphibious architecture in Tuvalu, looking towards local and sustainable materials that will enable Pacific communities to not only craft their own future and livability, but also allow for the passing down of traditions through generational practice and maintenance of the proposed floating farms.“

Recommended further reading:

📖 Floating Architecture: Construction on and Near Water

Published by the Institute for Floating Buildings, Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg (BTU)

H. Stopp & P. Strangfield

📖 Ground Rules in Humanitarian Design

Published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd.

A. Min Soo Chun, I. E. Brisson

Relevant Journals / Articles / Theses

📖 Atoll Island vulnerability to flooding and inundation revealed by historical reconstruction: Fongafale Islet, Funafuti Atoll, Tuvalu

Published by Elsevier B. V. Analytics, Center for Global Environmental Research, National Institute for Environmental Studies. 2007

H. Yamano, H. Kayanne, T. Yamaguchi, Y. Kuwahara, H. Yokoki, H. Shimazaki, & M. Chikamori

📖 Floating Building Opportunities for Future Sustainable Development and Energy Efficiency Gains

JAET Vol. 4, Issue 2. Shahryar Habibi, Faculty of Architecture, University of Ferrara.

Habibi S (2015) Floating Building Opportunities for Future Sustainable Development and Energy Efficiency Gains. J Archit Eng Tech 4

📖 In Search of Refuge: Pacific Islands, Climate-Induced Migration, and the Legal Frontier

AsiaPacific Issues: Analysis from the East-West Center. No. 98. (January 2011)

M. Burkett. As.Prof. Law, W. S. Richardson School of Law, Director of Island Climate Adaptation and Policy University of Hawai’I

📖 Global and Planetary Change: Map Project of Fongafale Island, Funafuti Atoll, Tuvalu

Published by Elsevier B. V. Analytics, Center for Global Environmental Research, National Institute for Environmental Studies

H. Yamano, H. Kayanne, Y. Kuwahara, H. Yokoki, & D. Sato .

📖 Patterns of island change and persistence offer alternate adaptation pathways for atoll nations

Published by Springer Nature; ’Nature Communications’ School of Environment University of Auckland

P. S. Kench, M. R. Ford & S. D. Owen

📖 Reef-island topography and the vulnerability of atolls to sea-level rise

Published by School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, NSW

C. D. Woodroffe

📖 Global and Planetary Change: Sea level variations and tropical Pacific islands since 1950

Published by Elsevier B. V. Analytics 2011.

M. Becker, B. Meyssignac, C. Letetrel, W. Llovel, A Cazenave & T. Delcroix

📖 Super Pacific-City: The Lomipeau Speculation

N. Wei, University of Auckland 2013.

📖 Floating Architecture

K. Yao, University of Auckland 2014.

📖 How the Tā-Vā theory of reality constructs a spatial exposition of Samoan architecture

A. L. Refiti, Auckland University of Technology, - Pacific Studies - Special Issue: Tā-Vā (Time-Space) Theory of Reality, 2017

Studies based on
Modular Corridor House by MOS Architects, Chicago, Illinois (2015)
Studies from Delerious New York, OMA | Madelon Vriesndorp
Lenin Tribune, Et Lissitzky (1920)

Drawn by hand and digitally coloured / decal'd

Illustrations for Lowtide Label based on K Rd