The Possibility of Islands - 15 Steps for a Pink Plastic Utopia - Tokyo
 

The ubiquitous plastic crate as a readily available material that can easily be configured to create inexpensive floating modular habitats and reefs.  Here, Tokyo is imagined to extend into the water and the water to enter into the city. Instead of proposing a solution to “build faster and harder to keep the water out”  this proposal seeks to merge Tokyo with the water, transforming the hard boundary into a continuum, a smooth transition, a commingling rather than a battle zone.

Aqueous neighborhoods accommodate housing and reef. The new archipelagos of artificial islands could reduce the impact of storm-induced wave energy and improve the ecology of estuarine environments. 

The following renders illustrate this scenario of archipelagos of plastic-crate islands in the flooded city - projected to be nomadic, mobile and responsive. They imagine a competitive system of flexible DIY networks of mini-islands structured and governed according to agreements amongst their inhabitants as proposed by the Seasteading Institute.

A step-by-step construction manual to build these shelters and the corresponding archipelagos also 

 

Project Team: Manar Moursi and Rowan Kandil