Honourable Mention

Mr Fergus Knox, Bartlett School of Architecture

Alta Vista, Densifying the Sunset

A design for a multi-family housing complex in San Francisco, USA. Occupying the space of the city's infamous layer of fog, the project seeks to utilise the particularities of this condition to create uniquely elevated living experiences. Each house is envisaged as a self-sufficient off-grid living environment that harnesses its energy from natural resources and pays back into the grid. Harvesting its own water from the moisture of the fog, the building functions as an inhabited public infrastructure project, an urban water tower that pulls moisture from the atmosphere and collects and distributes it to the residents below.

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