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Hydro-utopian Device


Design by: Alsar Atelier + Cyrus Gagaza + Jean Choi
Client: Versailles Biennial 2025  
Construction Year: 2025



The proposal is defined as a utopian speculation on how to inhabit the atmosphere as a collective solution for informal (self-built) neighborhoods located at high altitudes in the global south. More than an architectural proposal our design is a futuristic provocation on how fog harvesting could be industrialized to support food security in informal environments through urban agriculture. The proposal is a direct reference to the “1909” theorem drawn by A.B Walker and present in Rem Koolhaas’s Delirious New York as a methodology of utopian, ecological, and vertical inhabitation.