These submersible structures are already aiding conservation efforts around the world, from Gibraltar to Singapore.
As far as Alex Goad is concerned, his marine structures are a type of garden. They grow wilder and denser with every year – and the more encrusted these structures become the more colour, texture and dynamism they have.Reef Design Lab’s MARS II is designed to be underwater, but aesthetics are still important. This render shows how it will look at the MPavilion.
There is nothing accidental, however, about how the Reef Design Lab structures work. Designed and fabricated at the studio’s Mentone warehouse, they are expressly created for sea life to attach itself to and hide behind.“We want as many different species to colonise these substrates as possible,” Goad says. “We want to encourage so much complexity and texture that eventually these substrates just disappear.
They are as enchanting as coral even before anything starts growing on them. The National Gallery of Victoria and the Museum of Modern Art in New York have both acquired – and exhibited – entirely bare Reef Design Lab structures. But Goad says the aim is not to encourage domestic use but to highlight the ecological benefits of these structures in degraded marine environments.
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