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Fleeting City Group B: This scheme opens up to the sea and embraces the tidal changes that come with such a gesture. The carving of rivers along existing axis and sculpting of the earth pays respect to the past, whilst looking to the future. Much like the pause between breaths, the density of the city along the water clusters together, and then there is relief before the next. Buildings respond to the existing grid-like network of salt farms, increasing and decreasing in size, intertwining program and experience. The flooding of laneways creates ephemeral spaces, fleeting between tides. The absence of a space for an hour, a day or maybe even a week, makes these locations more special, more appreciated and celebrated. The future will see these laneways continuously flooded and perhaps on days of exceptionally low tide will give that generation a glimpse into the past. The loss and gain of these spaces is a reference to the impermanence of all things; everything is subject to change.
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