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Long Island

ID07

TypeArchitecture

Date2024-09-01

Coords1.3000 N, 103.9300 E

Posx -2.60 y -1.30 z -0.90

Slug07-long-island

Reimagining coastal resilience — the Long Island project, re-imagined.

A dynamic, self-sustaining coastal protection and water-harvesting system built through an evolving archipelagic approach. Offshore biorock farms, placed in high-current deep-sea zones, harvest tidal energy to stimulate rapid mineral accretion — producing structural biorock components.

These are transported inland to construct modular biorock embankment walls that enclose coffer-reservoirs: artificial islands designed for natural desalination, slowly turning seawater into usable freshwater. As islands multiply outward in layers, they double as wave dissipators and ecological buffers. Interconnected seawalls and tidal gates form a flexible defense spine, designed to accrete vertically in tandem with rising sea levels.

The perpetual seeding of biorock, aquaculture, and vegetation transforms the system into a living, growing machinic landscape — a proto-ecology that redefines coastal resilience as something cultivated rather than walled.

Media & materials

Detailed aerial render of the Long Island reservoir archipelago with people — The archipelago inhabited — coffer-reservoir rings, aquaculture, and biorock embankments.

Teal-on-dark masterplan of the Long Island archipelagic system — Masterplan — biorock farms, tidal gates, floating wetlands, and the connecting seawall.

Diagram of the six phases of coffer-reservoir formation — Phases 0–5 — from in-situ biorock scaffolds to a self-sustaining freshwater catchment.

Panoramic coastal section through the Long Island embankment system — Coastal section — embankments accreting vertically as a flexible defense spine.