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This project envisions an architecture that houses a team of specialists who recycle and repurpose derelict ship parts, inheriting Antwerp's naval military identity. In this setting, an E1 hydrofoil team is accommodated to experiment and develop their racing hydrofoil designs. The design questions in what way humans can negotiate space and coexist when the machinery becomes the dominant occupant.
Here, the architecture becomes an active mediator, facilitating human and non-human dwellers through thoughtful spatial design and reshaping the thresholds of space and time where coexistence forges a new realm of possibilities.
An animation tracing the building’s key spaces and the rhythms of its cyclical systems.
A bespoke hydrofoil design occupying a pilot, a narrator, and programmatic machines, forming a shared spatial dialogue between body and mechanical form.
Anchored within the middle of the three drydocks, the research and design centre offers various spatial experiences for the staff to carry out their prototyping work, emphasising the hydrofoil team's mechanical fascinations.
Carefully crafted architectural assets attuned to the building’s programme and context stand as relics of intent, speculating on future technologies and exploring the latent potential of machine-driven architecture.
A desire to unravel the building fabric emerges through the interplay of material transparency and fabrication, revealing its hidden potential.