3.3. 3 C CITY

3.3. 3C city by Ant Farm9 and WORKac10

Figure 12. Transverse section of the floating city

3-C City is built to accommodate people and other species amidst a healthy atmosphere

of debate and discussion between them. It is a “vehicle of dreams” along with a research lab and a conference centre. The three C’s stand for climate, convention and cruise. The

idea is that it’s a floating city not bound by any national borders. People can come

together to live in a different way and discuss important issues of the day. The city floats

on three stability pods.

The design reinvents the relation between ecology and infrastructure, the public and

private and the individual and collective. WORKac and Ant Farm hereby define the Art of

Architecture as continually in flux: a dialogue rendering architecture as a relational,

9 Ant Farm was an avant-garde architecture, graphic arts, and environmental design practice, founded in San Francisco in 1968 by Chip Lord and Doug Michels, later joined by Curtis Schreier. Ant Farm declared itself an “art agency that promotes ideas that have no commercial potential, but which we think are important vehicles of culturalintrospection.” 10 WORKac creates architecture at the intersection of the urban, the rural, and the natural. They embrace reinvention and collaborate with other fields to rethink architecture “in the world.” In the face of overwhelming challenges and increasingly normative scenarios, WORKac remains stubborn in their commitment to imagine alternate scenarios for the future of cities.

synthetic practice that undoes and reconstructs itself by questioning dogmas, expanding

the canon and inhabiting its edges to project multiple potentials and futures - while also

rewriting its pasts.

The residence spaces look upon to a central congregational hall which is an interspecies

(humans and animals) participation hall. This buoyant civilization provides a series of voids

with vertical connections and spaces for collectivity. Inflatable walls hold horizontal

infrastructure and create zones for private life. Solar panel shingles, pockets of

greenhouses and gardens, an algae farm for biofuel and a water-collection river all

combine to render infrastructure as architecture.

Figure 13. Cross section showing the varied programme in the floating city