Completion
Location
Size
Team
2016
Lyngor, Norway
12.2 kg
Henry Ngo
KINETIC BOUY
LYNGOR, NORWAY
THE ISLAND READER
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A build prototype for boats that move through the straights and create water ripples, the kinetic energy of daily activity from the ripples are harnessed by a reactive buoy. The main strait between the islands that make up the village of Lyngør records the ebb and flow of life. 'The Island Reader' is a workshop that will continue the recording of natural and man made through surveying and instrument making.
The prototype stitches the relationship between historic precedent and proposed architectural intervention where it explores Lyngør’s existing conditions as it weathers changing social, environmental, political, and cultural currents.
In parallel, it also adopts the methodologies of archaeologists, anthropologists, editors, and architects in order cultivate their own readings of the physical, social, historical, and topographical aspects of island life.
By making a reading machine as a key tool of the architect, we continue develop and draw highly personal interpretations of the island. These eclectic architectural strands will be woven together in the ‘Island Reader’, a narrative tapestry that redefines what we understand Lyngør to be.
