Atlantis

Personal Info

Name: Polina Stepanova

Nationality: Russian

Institution / Company: Columbia University in the City of New York

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-HONOURABLE MENTION of Non Architecture Award 2022 Competition | Category: Aspatial & Virtual

Have you ever reimagined the ocean floor? What if millions of years ago an alien living form, previously unknown to humans, occupied the depth of the oceans? Atlantis is an imaginative exploration into the particle-filled living void underwater, and it was completed during Retrofiction workshop hosted by Architect Scripta in Athens, Greece. 

Atlantis strives to reinvent a dynamic lost environment and create mythical creatures under the ocean surface, intersecting multiple typologies and their respective habitats. From more static structural elements of the mythical world (such as columns and dancers) to the particle-like environment which is constantly in motion of assembly and disintegration, Atlantis suggests an aspatial concept which counters a black-and-white narration of history. With imagination, the project raises open-ended – and surely enticing – questions and possibilities.

Project Type:

Reimagined underwater world

Jury Comments

– A plus B

The utopia of Atlantis is interpreted in this project by a continuous movement of assembling and spatial disintegration of structural elements of the possible architecture of the origins transformed by the ocean transitions and the multiple interpretations of history. Instead of the water as natural dimension an aspatial concept to transcend the myth and inspire new questions and possibilities.

– Xiaoyang Fang

It’s wild and wanton, with liquid nebulae and matrix-like cities, which arouse people’s infinite reverie. Boldly added materials and colors make the finishing touch. The typological classification makes this spatial cursive script permeated with order and rationality.