Andrew Ikomi | 2023 ARCHITECTURE PORTFOLIO Moku hanu responds to the pressure of 1500psi down in the mesopelagic layer of the ocean and the darkness of the layer. We began with a spherical shape and some curvilienar forms to combat that pressure seeing as it was one of our major issues. Noticing it will be dif昀椀cult to construct we decided to take another route but maintain the idea of get- ting something close to the spherical shape since it was important we beat the pressure. We also start- ed thinking about how we would use air to help with our movement throught the ocean. We decided to have a space 昀椀ll up with air to give us buoyancy to achieve vertical movement. Further development of this idea, gave us our architecture. We developed this exterior shell for our architecure to ensure that would change state to allow movement. 31
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