SUPERDALMATIA
- LOCATION: Kastela Bay
- STATUS: spatial study “Floating Structures” – student project
- AUTHORS:Dragana Čakić, Ana Kurte (mentor: Hrvoje Njirić)
- YEAR: 2010
In response to the task of building a floating settlement in Dalmatia, the project has shown that the waters of the Kaštela Bay represent great potential for the development of a whole range of activities. Not only in the field of tourism, which is the first association, but also in some other activities, especially those of a production profile. This makes it obvious that the Mediterranean environment offers the possibility of a new boom based on new environmentally conscious industries and an energetically responsible attitude towards the environment.
The floating algae farm has thus become an element of the transformation of the bay, but also a new living community with a specific urbanity.
By reinterpreting the Dalmatian settlement, with the addition of the rural element of the “algae field”, a modern urban environment has been created whose existence has a very concrete reason – production and application in various spheres, such as food, cosmetics and biofuels.
The fundamental task of “agriculture of the future” is to improve the existence of people and ecological processes in environments dominated by human influence, that is, to help environments in their efforts to become sustainable.
Modular, prefabricated and self-sustaining family houses with the possibility of mobility are envisaged. Their construction is based on the application of new technologies, and their special feature is the flexibility they offer users to adapt the design and construction. This modular typology aims to attract young families who, if necessary, could modularly upgrade their houses, thanks to the hybrid character of this concept.
