Chronomorphologic Entities

Studio Pierandrea Angius

Tutors Tina Tsagkaratou, Angel Tenorio

Team Bensu Talay, Cemre Demirci, Sera Su Abac, Minghaou Xian, Shreshtha Mathur

For centuries, people have built their lives around the element of water. For the cities that face increasingly worsening floods and shortage of land for housing, the possibility for above water settlements can provide an answer to the expansion of urban housing in the age of climate change. Instead of surrendering to these threats, we perceive them as an opportunity to construct an alternative life on water. Chronomorphologic Entities presents a paradigm shift that seeks to embrace, rather than resist, the challenges that water brings especially in places largely built on reclaimed land and a third of which are located below sea level. 

Chronomorphologic Entities is a self-sufficient system comprising of small units that utilise minimal and essential spaces in the most efficient way and generate collective living patterns when assembled. The aim is to take advantage and adapt to these environmental transformations and propose an alternative mode of life that oscillates between water and land and creates an urban ecosystem. This ecosystem maximises the use and re-use of environmental energy and water, recycles nutrients and reduces waste, while, at the same time, it provides the necessary space for natural biodiversity in the land-scarce but densely populated areas. 

The individual units allow mobility and transformability on both land and water and adapt to diverse environments, always following the rules of ergonomics and proxemics along the help of chronomorphology. Like chronophotography, its 19th century counterpart, chronomorphology offers a composite recording of an object’s movement; however, instead of a photograph, the recording medium is a full three-dimensional model of the human body and its logged movements  that simulates trails within a digital environment to monitor proxemics and ergonomics.