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Reviving the Gulf: Adaptive Reuse of Oil Platform Infrastructure

Daniel Mackowiak

This project operates on the Appomattox Oil Rig in the waters of Louisiana, demonstrating in phases to relocate 200-800 people by creating sustainable food, water, and energy production, housing, medical complexes and further expanding the natural marine environment. This project incorporates a program for a community to thrive economically, culturally, physically and psychologically. Rising sea levels are impacting low lying communities with the eraser of land, culture and tradition. Repurposing abandoned oil-rig infrastructure provides an effective solution to house coastal communities but to mitigate risks of environmental damage caused by decommissioned infrastructure collapsing into the ocean. The project will go over how the retrofitting procedure will be implemented with designing existing and new programs to ensure the populations needs are met. The second part will focus on the architectonics of the platform, focusing on the structural make up, materials, and connections to visualize how these spaces can be revitalized through a set of phases. The outcome of the projects is to demonstrate that retrofitting existing oil platform infrastructure can be vitally done to decrease an ever-increasing environmental problem while keeping the culture and heritage of the local coastal communities alive.

Major

M.Arch

Department

Architecture

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