Our Blue Planet

A google earth view that is rarely seen. Our Blue Planet.

Busan Beaches 부산 해변

I managed to escape Seoul for the weekend and venture to Busan a Korea's second city on the coast. This post shows my sketch study of the Haeundae Beach, it really was the Copacabana of Korea. You swim fully clothed on these beaches though. It had a typically seaside feel about the place with run down buildings and the smell of fish markets. The city escaped density by adopting the sandy beaches as a public space. Strictly no smoking!

A Tidal Story

The tide erodes our infrastructures, a story of decay and change.

West Pier, Brighton 2009.

Tidal Rhythms

The gravitational forces exerted by our Moon, Sun and the rotation of the Earth create a constant changing landscape where water meets rock. The mapping of tidal movements can take many interesting forms. Our infrastructures and environments are constantly marked by this celestial condition. From high to low tide our thresholds are eroded, destroyed, flooded, scattered with debris and marked with the stories of our physical world. The passing of time is seen as the water oscillates on the coasts and banks of our habitats. Our architectures have the ability to have ever changing dialogues with the environment and with our universe.

NASA/GSFC - M2 Tidal constituent, Amplitude is indicated by colour. Mapping of global tidal movements.

Flooded London Squint/Opera2

Visions of a metropolis overwhelmed with water. Squint/Opera beautifully explore the result on the urban environment and famous architectural landmarks of London with increased flooding. They manage to discover through their drawings a re-engagement with natural systems and wildlife. Our current dislocation with natural systems could culminate with a new urban relationship or juxtaposition with the wild and untempered.

http://www.dezeen.com/2008/06/22/flooded-london-by-squintopera-2/

Message In the Waves

This is a powerful BBC documentary that highlights the issue of the deterioration of our oceans. Plastics are a huge issue and sea life is being choked by the shear volume of waste that is discarded every year into our oceans. Plastic is degraded by the sun into small particles similar in size to plankton, which sea life ecosystems are mistaking for food causing devastating affects.