Contemporary perceptions of the urban waterfront present it equally as unexplored resource and also potential threat. On the one hand the shoreline is a spatial and territorial frontier to be colonized by an ever expanding city, on the other, threats such as rising water levels could potentially undermine and challenge coastal settlements. Such diverging potentials produce complex and indeterminate conditions that cannot be fully solved by simply extrapolating from land-based formal and spatial precedents.
Liquid Tectonics consist of proposals for material systems that occupy the zone between natural and the man-made, between organic and non-organic form but also between land and water, hard and soft, impermeable and porous.