American artist James Casebere has produced a series of staged photographs portraying a future world in which people are forced to build shelters to escape catastrophic flooding.
Casebere created the series titled On the Water's Edge to draw attention to issues relating to climate change and, in particular, the need for humans to respond creatively to the threat posed by rising sea levels.
"Forty per cent of greenhouse gases are created by buildings," the artist told Dezeen, highlighting one of the key factors contributing to global warming. "It's imperative that we reduce that number drastically through design, insulation, and alternative energy sources."
"The impact is inevitable and architects must take responsibility for reducing it," he added, "as well as adapting to a more precarious, dangerous, environment."
For On the Water's Edge, Casebere looked to the future rather than the past, whilst incorporating some of Barragán's values into the design of the futuristic hybrid structures he modelled at his studio in Pittsfield, Massachusetts.

"Climate change has been a concern of mine," he said, "and for years I had been strangely enamoured of a 19th-century lifesaving station at Caffey's Inlet on the Outer Banks of North Carolina."
"So, I began to create my own structures for the beach; lifesaving stations as social infrastructure for migrant populations fleeing the devastation of ever-increasing storms ? ...