This technical assignment was based on an existing design from a Chinese first year student. The render in the background was produced by him. Although the design idea was very interesting, we had to rethink the entire building making it relatively possible to build and answering to the current norms of heating, ventilation, air conditions and cooling. The building was originally designed completely under water. The main problem was bringing natural daylight into the dwellings. To answer this question, we decided to redefine the existing volume as the negative space, functioning as a vide to bring daylight into every apartment. 

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We went very far in the idea of self-sustaining, implementing future but realistic concepts to maintain fully operational without any interference of the mainland. The drawings are very detailed, showing a comprehensive understanding of the technical building parts. The three panels below were made in collaboration with Florent Oosterlynck, a colleague student. On the left panel, a section of the whole building is being showed. Here you can see the vide, the water recycle system, the different waffle structures, the attachment to the seabed and the outer concrete shell. On the second panel, a more detailed section is provided. On this section, all technical aspects as well as structural aspects are displayed. The third panel on the right shows 2 different levels in the building. The upper one is the technical level with evacuation submarines whilst the lower one is an example of a level with dwellings. 

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The hand drawn details underneath the three panels are entirely drawn by myself. These are parts of the building where I went very far into detail to solve structural and technical problems.