The waterpod's site: www.thewaterpod.org

PROCESS OF WATERPOD

Constructing a Business Plan: The Waterpod Business Plan is the most important document I constructed. It helped pave the way for busineses and institutions understanding of the project’s goals. To download the Waterpod Business Plan click here

Waterpod Map and Tour: This document was created to assist visitors with a general background to the project. To download the document, Waterpod: Waterpod Map and Tour, click here

Future, Present, and Past of the Waterpod Project: The Waterpod is a living sculpture and a continuously evolving world. This document was made to further the project in today’s context. To download the document, Waterpod: Future, Present, Past click here

WORKINGS OF WATERPOD

The Waterpod demonstrates future pathways for nomadic, mobile shelters and water-based communities, docked and roaming.

It embodies self-sufficiency and resourcefulness, learning and curiosity, human expression and creative exploration. It intends to prepare, inform, and provide an alternative to current and future living spaces.

In preparation for our coming world with an increase in population, a decrease in usable land, and a greater flux in environmental conditions, people will need to rely closely on immediate communities and look for alternative living models; the Waterpod is about cooperation, collaboration, augmentation, and metamorphosis.

As a malleable and autonomous space, the Waterpod is built on a model comprised of multiple collaborations. The Waterpod functions as a singular unit with the possibility to expand into ever-evolving water communities; an archipelagos that has the ability to mutate with the tides.

The Waterpod is mobile and nomadic, and as an application for the future it can historicize the notion of the permanent structure, simultaneously serving as composition, transportation, island, and residence.

As with art, architecture is largely about stories: stories of its inhabitants, its community, its makers and their reflections on the past or expectations of the future.

Based on movement, the Waterpod structure is adaptable, flexible, self-sufficient, and relocatable, responsive to its immediate and shifting environment.

The Waterpod is an extension of body, of home, and of community, its only permanence being change, flow, and multiplicity. It connects river to visitor, global to local, nature to city, and historic to futuristic ecologies.

With this project, we hope to encourage innovation as we visualize the future fifty to one hundred years from now. This will be the first of many. -Mary Mattingly

The businesses, groups, and individuals who made Waterpod happen write something about it:

NYC Dockmaster Unit
Governor's Island GIPEC
Rik van Hemmen
Robert Mann Gallery
Brooklyn Bridge Park Development Corporation

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