Ocean Center in Baler, Philippines by CAZA

Article source: CAZA

Coastal Architecture in the age of climate change has become an increasingly precarious proposition. The Ocean Center project is designed to anticipate massive change: both ground and structure modulate natural systems enabling them to flow through in a measured and calculated way. The effect is that these natural forces activate architectural space at varying material intensities replacing the usual modernist paradigm of autonomous occupation with a feedback model relating human activity to environmental conditions. Markets, local shops, an oceanographic museum, apartments, a convention center and playfields are held together as disparate parts with multiple orientations that create the feeling of being within a micro-village with no outside but instead with a profusion of fractional insides that connect us to other places extending the loop of nature’s deep connectivity.

Shopping Arcade, Image Courtesy © CAZA

• Architects: CAZA
• Project: Ocean Center
• Location: Baler, Philippines
• Project Team: Carlos Arnaiz, Jun Deng, Alden Ching, Patricia Tan, Sehyun Lee

Market, Image Courtesy © CAZA

Floating Apartments, Image Courtesy © CAZA

Public Market, Image Courtesy © CAZA

Convention Center, Image Courtesy © CAZA

Floating Apartments, Image Courtesy © CAZA

Aerial View, Image Courtesy © CAZA

Parallel Orthography, Image Courtesy © CAZA

Elements, Image Courtesy © CAZA

Environmental Strategy, Image Courtesy © CAZA

Site Analysis, Image Courtesy © CAZA

Concept Sketch, Image Courtesy © CAZA

Program, Image Courtesy © CAZA

Physical Model Studies, Image Courtesy © CAZA

Site Nalaysis, Image Courtesy © CAZA

Apartment, Image Courtesy © CAZA

Sections, Image Courtesy © CAZA

Geometry, Image Courtesy © CAZA

Market, Image Courtesy © CAZA

Convention Center, Image Courtesy © CAZA

Tags: Baler, Philippines

Categories: Center, public spaces

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