Water shell

Water shell: A trip for water

Wang, Ruoxi (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment)

Rommens, O.R.G. (mentor)
Jennen, P.H.M. (mentor)
Milani, S. (mentor)

Delft University of Technology

Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences

2020-01-10

Water shell is a Utopian vision based on the thinking of water in the Tashkent context. It is the reflection over the political and chronological aspect of water: The water distribution is largely decided by the political importance of places, and so intervened by city development. Besides, the water body is shrinking in Tashkent in a long-time span. From the research, an assumed ironic story comes out: Water in Tashkent is irreversibly shrinking, so the water shell is built to take powerful people to find a new land full of water. The water shell floats or walks along the city main canal secretly and silently. It can be seen as an amphibious adaptation to the dry context of Tashkent. The water shell takes in water from outside, purifies, and produces hydro-energy. The inner space operates as the mechanism of water flows. It explores the intrinsic properties of water.

water
politics
space

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Student theses

master thesis

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