Climate change and sea level rise directly affect the future of architecture
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The environmental problem that needs to be solved now is an unavoidable fact
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Lenka Petr á KOV á designers are paying attention – Marine Pollution and protection
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In fact, Petr á KOV á’s floating ocean research and restoration station design concept, called “the Eighth Continent”, has just won her the 2020 prize
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This national architecture award is in recognition of outstanding contributions to the industry and is also the highest award of French architecture
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The floating center is designed in three incredible glass forms that appear in the elegant spiral base
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The Eighth Continent hopes to have a positive impact on the ocean by skimming water and recycling plastics
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Petr á KOV á also plans to add the building to reality to support marine research projects and a series of secondary uses, which will help clean the ocean and promote environmental research
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These two main needs clean oceans and promote research influenced Petr á KOV á to design the concept as an innovative project to solve pollution
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This important requirement also influenced the designer’s decision to name the project “the Eighth Continent”
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“Today, a large surface covered by marine plastic pollution is the size of a continent,” Petr á KOV á explains
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“The one that grew up in the Pacific Ocean is called the Eighth Continent
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For a long time, we have lived under the illusion that our actions on shore will not harm the ocean
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But we did make hundreds of species extinct
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“Petr á KOV á is trying to help break these problems through a new type of sustainable architecture
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The Eighth Continent is divided into five programmes or functional areas: barriers for collecting waste and generating energy from the tides; collectors for sorting and recycling marine waste; research and education centres; greenhouses for treating water and growing plants; and living areas for supporting staff and researchers
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In addition to winning the Grand Prix, Eighth Continent also won the “ocean Innovation Award” from the Jacques rugeri foundation
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Here are the renderings and architectural lines of Petr á KOV á’s winning Grand Prix, which is likely to inspire more construction projects to clean our ocean
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Designer Lenka Petr á KOV á won France’s 2020 Architecture Award for “8th continent,” a research station floating in the ocean..
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