JACOB ROBERTS
BSC HONS ARCHITECTURE
SERPENTINE OCEAN RUNWAY
FOREWORD
Runway at the Waterline explores architecture as a dialogue between humanity and the ocean. The project investigates the sea as a layered condition — surface, horizon, and immersion — translating these elements into spatial experience upon water. Within the realm of yachting, the vessel is reimagined as floating terrain: a setting for movement, gathering, and performance shaped by wind, light, and tide. Through hand draftsmanship, technological integration, and advanced rendering systems, the work seeks to merge precision with atmosphere.
Here, architecture does not resist the ocean — it inhabits it.
MANIFESTO
MONTE-CARLO, ITALY
This project proposes a floating architecture in the heart of MonteCarlo’s Fashion week - where fashion is not staged against nature, but within it.
The runway becomes a shifting horizon — rising above the sea, dissolving at the waterline, and descending beneath it. Models move through exposure, reflection, and immersion. Garments encounter wind, salt, light, and pressure as active collaborators in the performance. The ocean is not a backdrop; it is the representation of layers within natures transcendence from Context to Agent. A serpentine walkway extends across a buoyant plane carved by voids that shape spectator pockets. At its centre, a pavilion shelters gathering without enclosing it. The bar anchors the social core, while the runway slips below the surface into a submerged passage — a moment of altered perception where the threshold of movement in water and people is blurred. The architecture does not resist the elements; it choreographs them. Waves brush its edges. Spray crosses its thresholds. The structure accepts erosion, reflection, and instability as layers of beauty. Fashion, like the sea, is transient and atmospheric. This project frames both as temporal phenomena — body, garment, and water intertwined in motion. Here, the show is not only watched. It is felt with the senses of the oceans atmosphere.
FIG. BIOMIMICRY WAVE FORM ROOF PLAN
FIG. UPPER DECK FLOOR FLOOR PLAN
CONCEPTUAL PERSPECTIVE SECTION A-A
CONCEPTUAL PERSPECTIVE SECTION B-B
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FIG. OCEAN WALKWAY APPROACH
FIG. INFINITY POOLSIDE AND SUN DECK
FIG. BAR AREA (SOCIAL CORE) AND MODEL RUNWAY
FIG. OCEAN WALKWAY DECENT AND COVERED SEATING SPACES