I.D. June 2004: The Water Issue

The subject of water is as mundane as a puddle and as profound as the Marianas Trench. Try to grasp it and it slips through your fingers. Yet given the vitality of this element to design, we found the attempt irresistible. Here, I.D. offers a cupped handful of projects related to water in all its states: vast three-dimensional models of waterways that predict how oceans and rivers will behave; an initiative to bring clean water to parched countries through systems developed to sustain life in outer space; an art installation near the Arctic Circle made precarious by the fickle nature of snow and ice; research into a shrimp species designed much like a Corbusier building; and more.

more: idonline.com/backissues.asp (63)

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