About Ai Yo! Filling-the-Well Voyageur

howtobegood:

Hydro-Manhattan.

For her thesis project at Rice University, W. Amanda Chin proposed ten “waterscrapers” that would slice across the urban space of Manhattan, cutting through buildings, through parks, and through the urban grid itself, forming strange aquatic intersections with the city.

Inside would be routes for scuba-diving, new aquariums, and multi-seasonal sites for public swimming. These above-ground pipes of water are less an actual proposal for construction than a sort of architectural dream: the city cross-cut by amniotic utopias through which people can wander at all hours of the day.

Wonderful utopia.

via bldgblog