Main Idea

The Aquapolis was build to present the audience an utopian vision of a future life on the sea. As the Expo was designed to envision "the sea we want to see" and human's future engagement with the sea's ressources, a floating city inidicating the sea as human habitat was a main attraction of the show.

Main Features

The Aquapolis was floating on the water surface, held only with a structure of ancors. It crossed the seas two times in it's life, once from Hiroshima to Okinawa after it's construction in the 70's and once for it's disintegration in Shanghai in 2004. During exhibition it was a functioning city was a post office and the Japanese government issuing passports.

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