SUSPENDED CITY

The Main Concept of Design The juxtaposition of water and architecture has always been a challenging issue for humans. Architecture in water or architecture on water have been human solutions to live in the context of water. The main problem of this project, according to the evidence of the current situation, requires a challenge beyond these two solutions.

To solve this problem, instead of providing a scaled solution except for individual architectures of the city, the design team has proposed master plan as a big idea of organizing an urban system in a special context. In fact, The Main Concept of Design, is to organize a new system of urban architecture above the water level and at a distance from it. In this solution, a huge platform with large openings (holes) to illuminate its lower platform is placed on the city, and the buildings are suspended from this platfom downwards.

In fact, suggested proposal is a floating city that will extend both over the existing city and over the water. To access the suspended buildings, vertical accesses are designed as a communication system (taxi elevator) between the existing city and the suspended city. These vertical accesses in the form of vertical boxes provide the possibility of moving between the lower and upper levels. The structure of platform is based on columns that simultaneously provide the possibility of placing vertical connections. Also, ramps-streets have been designed for access between the upper and lower levels. Access from the water space (sea) is also provided by the design of docks.

In this proposed structure, the buildings are considered as upside down and suspended towers for the establishment of residential spaces, offices, treatment spaces, etc. Even considering the fact that in the coming years, the possibility of water rising and submerging the entire city space is imagined, through phasing, the entire space of the lower city can be transferred to the upper city and the lower space turned into a public urban space.

This daring idea, while providing a solution for the existing conditions, expresses another redefinition of the human challenge in facing the issue of the relationship between water and architecture and proposes a new type of genre of organizing the city, architecture and man on a land with a special context.