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Totem
MegaCore/ Floodable building Typology Experimental Tech. Research Studio
11.2019 Sydney, Australia
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General plan in relation to Barangaroo shorelins Totem is a primitive initiative for efficient workspace structures inspired in rocket launching platforms.
Totem creates a landscape as a podium that may transform into a water reservoir when sea level rise allows.
As sea levels hunt traditional architecture dryness,
Totem imagines rocket-like architecture, going upwards, limitless, flying up into the sky. no skyscrapers but water tanks, humid and mouldy (Co2 sequestrators), reservoirs.
In this pages, Totem is tested upon sacred land . As a place holder - “preCrown tower,” Totem would retain its environment and construct a cave-like ecology of ground spaces masked by the traditional productivist office typology.
