2020년 그랑프리 플로팅 서치 스테이션 Gorgeous Floating Research Station Wins the 2020 Grand Prix Award

Gorgeous Floating Research Station Wins the

2020 Grand Prix Award

By Samantha Pires on February 10, 2021

 

 

플로팅 서치 스테이션이 2020년 그랑프리 상을 수상했다

    기후 변화와 그에 따른 해수면의 상승은 건축의 미래에 직접적인 영향을 미치고 있다. 환경문제가 지금 당장 다뤄져야 한다는 것은 피할 수 없는 사실이다. 렌카 페트라코바와 같은 디자이너들이 눈부시게 주목하고 있는 한 가지 문제는 해양 오염과 보존이다. 실제로 페트라코바의 제8대륙이라 불리는 부유식 해양 연구 및 치료 기지 디자인 컨셉트가 2020 그랑프리 상을 수상했다. 국가 건축상은 산업에 대한 뛰어난 공헌을 인정하며, 프랑스 최고 건축상이다. 

Climate change and the resulting rise in sea levels is directly impacting the future of architecture. It’s an unavoidable truth that environmental issues need to be addressed right now. One looming problem that designers like Lenka Petráková are brilliantly giving attention to is ocean pollution and conservation. In fact, Petráková’s design concept for a floating ocean research and remediation station, called 8th Continent, has just won her the 2020 Grand Prix Award. The national architecture prize recognizes outstanding contribution to the industry, and is the highest French award for architecture.

The floating center is designed with three incredible glass forms emerging from an elegant spiral base. 8th Continent hopes to positively impact the ocean by skimming waste off the surface of the water and recycling plastics all while at sea. Petráková also planned the building to support ocean research projects and a range of secondary uses that will help clean our oceans and advance environmental research.

Both of these main needs—to clean oceans and to advance research—influenced Petráková to design this concept as a radical project to address pollution. This important need also influenced the designer’s decision to name the project the 8th Continent. “Today, large surfaces covered in marine plastic pollution equal the size of a continent,” Petráková explains. “The one growing in the Pacific Ocean is called The 8th Continent. For too long, we lived in the delusion that we cannot hurt the ocean by our action onshore. We left hundreds of species to get extinct.”

Petráková attempts to help break down these issues through a new kind of sustainable architecture. 8th Continent is split into five programmatic, or functional, areas: the Barrier, which collects waste and generates energy from the tides; the Collector, which is used to sort and recycle ocean waste; the Research and Education Centre; the Greenhouse, where water can be processed and plants can be grown; and the Living Quarters to support staff and researchers.

In addition to its Grand Prix win, 8th Continent has also won Innovation of the Sea by Foundation Jacques Rougerie. Keep scrolling to see the dramatic renderings and architectural line drawings that helped Petráková win the Grand Prix, which very well may help inspire more architectural projects to clean our oceans.

8th Continent hopes to positively impact the ocean by skimming waste off the surface of the water and recycling plastics all while at sea.

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