Buoyant Ecologies Students Named Finalists in Kiribati Floating Houses Competition

Two teams of Bachelor of Architecture students from the fall 2019 Buoyant Ecologies Blueprint studio have been named as finalists in the Kiribati Floating Houses Competition. The competition invited participants to speculate on forms of floating housing for Kiribati, an island nation located in the central Pacific Ocean that is increasingly vulnerable to climate change and sea level rise.

The Buoyant Ecologies Blueprint advanced Integrated Building Design studio, led by CCA faculty Margaret Ikeda, and Evan Jones, is part of an ongoing research partnership between CCA, Autodesk's Technology Center San Francisco, Kreysler & Associates, and the Benthic Lab at Moss Landing Marine Laboratories. The research is focused on developing innovative material approaches to resilient waterfront structures.

The two CCA student teams selected as finalists are: City^2, by Jiaqi Cao, Jiaqi Deng, and Yuchen Li; and Kiribati Floating Community, by Jingyi Emma Luo and Cera Yeo. Congratulations to the students on this achievement!