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#359652195DEEP WATER
The five big ponds offer a beautiful prospect on diverse sea beds. The public lives different sensory experiences at each pond: for example the fascinating and impressive sensation to be able to evolve in the middle of the sharks or the delight of being surrounded by the lively colors of tropical fish. The meeting room is a place to share knowledge through the broadcasting of movies, discussions... Finally, the temporary exhibition allows interactions of artistic practices like photography or painting. Punctuating the visit, interactive exhibitions and digital information are given to all.
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#24305645WETLANDIA
The natural ecology of New York City has been built over for centuries. Our project peels back the layers of urban topology to reveal the original landscape of the coast. A series of pods transition the site from wooded meadow to grasslands to wetlands and finally to marsh. The landscaping cascades over the aquarium building creating striking elevated views of the skyline. The interior exhibits focus on digital exploration, freeing the audience from the confines of space and time. The project is antithetical to a linear park, permitting discovery and fully integrating into the fabric of the city.
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#294752796UP and SUB marine
The Aquarium is one of the main public buildings of the city offering outdoor areas open to the public. The green walk is continued along the waterfront and a removable bridge is installed. The local barges are rehabilitated in marine research centers. The building works differently following flood levels. It is constituted of a sort of plinth emerging of the ground, inspired by the submarine’s structure to make it resist to flood and by a glazed block. The interior design is thought in a way to have a maximum of views in the basin and in the main aquarium.
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#366778699THE ROCK
Our proposal for a new public aquarium in New York City is based on the idea of a rock coming out of the water. The ground level of our design is an extension of
the public space outside and provides apart from the service spaces a restaurant and a square with a shelter. The four aquariums are divided all over the building and each of them has an own interesting identity. We designed one aquarium underground, an aquarium around an elevator, one that can be seen from below and one aquarium where visitors can go through. 
#332162803MARINE CULTURAL PLAZA
The Marine Cultural Plaza’s concept is based on Alhambra palace. The concept is composed of four main spaces, a small courtyard in each as an experience while walking through. Surrounding circles by water ponds and gardens to understand leading paths, community, and transition spaces. To understand cultural aspects, each pond represents a culture with trees that relate to each culture. A curved wavy-shape roof made of steel and glass to reflect water. The flat floor with supportive columns holds the building 6’ 6” above ground to create view of Manhattan’s skyline. Underneath space are for mechanical, ventilation, and flooding protection.
#672870878NYC AQUA PARK
Proposed design reverses typical aquarium/museum building’s inwardness by scatter its content out in the open. Result is a sculptural park with series of free open exhibition space and water-themed recreational activities. Existing site’s spatial form and scale is preserved with arrangement of installations and retained structures. With ability to clean the river’s water and act as temporary reservoir to ease flooding, this ex-industrial site is transformed to an urban ecological machine. NYC AQUA PARK is a new hybrid of public cultural space which celebrates marine life, local history, and East River.
#318320440NYC AQUARIUM & PUBLIC WATERFRONT
Our proposal is an organic-shaped building that acts as a transitional element between the high density area of Manhattan and the small urban scale surrounding the site of the project. Rising up in response to the view of the skyline, the building’s height decreases as it approaches the public park. The aquarium rooftop can be accessed by ramps that interconnect the whole public space. The building also adapts to the waterfront by displacing itself to the edges of the site and providing the users the feeling of floating over the water.
#1404139215THE PEARL
Sea level rise represents a direct consequence of global warming, exposing coastal areas to significant risks of flooding, including the site. In response to this event, the site assumes the role of protector of the precious object by a layered resilience topography like the oyster defends its pearl from surrounding obstacles. The raised up site offers a gradual relation with the river bank and the street by passing through the aquarium that gives a floating impression. On a smaller scale, the project is fragmented into several functional spaces to liven the place and enhance the interdependent nature of the ensemble.
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#4628572THE QUEEN S FISHES
There is no proper way to build an Aquarium to the advantage of animals, as we are used to visit. The most spectacular Aquarium is the ocean itself in all its glory and its beings in their evolved habitat. Spreading pillars all over the site, offers the possibility of developing an uninterrupted undersea life. It certainly evolves by itself and induces the 'Natural Aquarium'. On site marine researches can be done by pedestrians on the waterfront get informed by surrounded points of information, while taking a look down under water, observing fishes and corals in their natural behavior.
#746221005Aqua-Park
sThe project aims to explore how aquarium in multiple types can integrate with public rooftop park that stimulates the interaction between human and non-human in urban context. An aquarium for the 21st century should not only be capable of exhibiting animals but also responsible for educating the future generation through the design and spatial form. The Aqua-Park concept creates a sequence of interior and exterior spaces that can accommodate species which requires different temperature and light conditions. It also offers great flexibility of shifting programs and spatial arrangement in order to hold special events.
#183340099NYC AQUARIUM & PUBLIC WATERFRONT
Intended as a massive wave about to break, this project will serve as a reminder of the rising sea levels caused by global warming. The design is an abstraction of the reflection of water as well as the Ed Koch Queensboro
Bridge near the site. Passing under this wave grants visitors access to the public waterfront park. Entering the aquarium, visitors will get to experience the large variety of fascinating aquatic life found in the East River, New York Harbor and North Atlantic Ocean. 
#118499626NYC AQUARIUM & PUBLIC WATERFRONT
The project is organized around a central volume, which represents the fulcrum. On the ground floor of this volume, you can find all the aquarium services and the exhibitions access. Visiting the aquarium can be made in one entire tour allowing the visitor to attend the entire aquarium, or visiting just one section avoiding the rest. Technical spaces have been set in the volume underneath the show tanks, where there are spaces for marine research. The central section contains a shop gallery which it is possible to get in from outside. On the last floor there are the management offices.
#1744658871QUEENS AQUASCAPE
AQUASCAPE was designed to reverse the role of humans and marine life, challenging who’s looking at whom in the aquarium typology. Through a continuous form and circulation flow derived from existing site conditions, visitors descend through the levels of the Atlantic Ocean, viewing marine life in their natural habitat, rather than separate unrelated exhibits. This fluid experience extends into the waterfront park, which flows through the building and provides public access to views of outdoor exhibits and the Manhattan skyline. By building an inclusive environment that is identifiable to the public, a cultural anchor is created.
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#18256683NYC AQUARIUM & PUBLIC WATERFRONT
The concept for the aquarium and waterfront incorporate light with a relation to height and spatial sequencing. Interior circulation begins with the lobby and proceeds through a series of four exhibits that each reflect specific light qualities ranging from lighter to darker exhibits. The exhibit light qualities are related to the amount of natural and artificial each space is lit with. Apertures that allow natural lighting into the exhibits from above double as seating areas on top of the aquarium and the forms of these apertures are use in the landscape as planters and additional seating areas.
#30470018OYSTER COVE
Much like the way oysters filter contaminated water; our site will gradually filter out the urban environment as well as treat surface water on-site. As people traverse through our oyster-shaped aquarium, as sand would do in our oceans and lakes, they would “solidify” their knowledge of marine life and experience it through alternative perspectives. The primary goal of our aquarium is to focus on the education and preservation of our sensitive aquatic ecosystem, and to secure its longevity for future generations.
#404067536CROSS STREAM AQUARIUM
The building proposed is completely disconnected from the ground in order to free an important urban space. It is supported by piles distributed on the terrain, reducing the perception of the structure. The aquarium reinterprets the idea of classical patio monuments ; the interior of the patio is linked to the street : the exterior is an esplanade, the interior is a promenade hosting the entrance of the building. The aquarium galleries are all along the rectangle, the shape allows the creation of a circuit. The thematics are separated by terraces and a large belvedere faces the skyline.
#127936930NYC AQUARIUM & PUBLIC WATERFRONT
In this project, aquarium and park merge making it difficult to define boundaries. The organicity of the shape, inspired by sea waves, encourages people to flow over, under, on the side and into the building creating diverse paths and meeting points. Appealing to a variety of visitors, the exhibition joins the sensational, the scientific and the interactive, and makes use of the relationship between the nature on display and the city, particularly induced by the so present Manhattan skyline. Here architecture and nature merge and conflict, inviting the visitor to take part in its unique ambiguities.
#1782391669PERFORATE WETLAND PARK & AQUARIUM
PERFORATE is conceived as a marine wetland habitat that follows NYC’s wetland restoration strategy as a storm mitigation/habitat creation solution. The aquarium wing of the park offers up a nontraditional aquarium experience by allowing the community to peer into the underwater nature of NYC’s vibrant waterways. The wetland creates an ideal habitat to attract aquatic species, playing off the “pseudo-ecologies” of nature/city. By infiltrating the site with water and creating a network of perforated boardwalks, the public waterfront component permeates the entirety of the site. This expanded wetland habitat creates a filtering effect on the surrounding waterways.
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