The project was prepared by Alicja Grzegorczyk, a graduate in architecture from the Wrocław University of Technology. The concept is to rebuild an old oil platform and change its function into a research center. The student's concept appealed to the jury members of the international competition "Iron Island". The Polish student won an honorable mention in the competition.
The architecture graduate is proposing to convert an oil platform into a center for research into the rebirth of marine life. The site is to serve as an educational center.
There, visitors would be able to learn about the history of drilling and understand the damage it has caused, thereby gaining a deeper understanding of the need to live in symbiosis with the rest of the Earth's inhabitants. Alicja designed an engaging tour path that would take visitors through a science exhibition, a research laboratory, and an underwater auditorium. Its continuation would be a second platform with a vertical farm and living space for staff. There, visitors could learn about aquaponic cultivation. The two platforms together would be self-sufficient in clean energy, water, and food, says the project's author.
The project was inspired by a design class led by Dr. Eng. Arch. Bogusław Wowrzeczka, Alicja's supervisor. It was about hybrid architecture – megastructures, and vertical farms in cities. It was then that her interest in the technologically and functionally complex architecture of this type was born.
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