Bivouac: Shelter for the Journey

This project imagines a landscape that has suffered the most extreme consequences of climate change. This bleak initial proposal relies on the inherent optimism of architecture that seeks to assess highly complex problems from living in harsh environments. Taking inspiration from science fiction that engages with climate change to imagine new worlds, this bivouac structure is an architectural solution to living in the reality that Kim Stanley’s New York 2140 asserts as our inevitable future. Having taken inspiration from diving bells and geometric principles explored by Buckminster Fuller, this 26-sided structure is a proposed solution to living underwater in a world where global warming has led to melting ice caps and rising sea levels.