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Sisi Qian

Sisi Qian

Chino Hills, CA, US

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Sea Garden City

Sea Garden City mixes urban fabric with a variety of landscape elements, including agricultural belts and salt-water filtration ponds, in the production of a self-contained, self-supporting city on the sea.

It is decentralized and inherently elastic, capable of adjusting to a wide range of internal as well as external pressures, such as the fluctuation of population densities and complex weather patterns related to the ocean.

Sea Garden City is not fixed to a particular site, but offers a portable form of urbanism that migrates across the oceans. Comprised of large-scale porous ring structures, each of which supports a population of human as well as non-human residents, such as itinerant birds and marine life. Sea Garden City takes the for of a floating archipelago of artificial islands and wetlands, a new form of post-territory, post-national urbanism for the future.

 
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Status: School Project
Location: Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Monument
My Role: All phases
Additional Credits: Huanyu Guo, Bhawya Joshi