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Recycled Ocean Plastic Resort by West Island
7 May 2021
Recycled Ocean Plastic Resort
Design: Margot Krasojevi? Architects
Location: West Island, Cocos (Keeling) Islands, Australian external territory

The Recycled Ocean Plastic Resort project brief is to design an off-coast floating hotel with sustainability at the forefront of the design criteria. References to land reclamation and renewable energy are of importance.

The reclaimed hotel floats south of the Australian external territory in the Indian Ocean, where an increase in plastic pollution has damaged ecosystems to the Cocos (Keeling) archipelago, trapping and killing hermit crabs amongst the crustaceans that are an important part of tropical environments as they disperse seeds and aerate and fertilize the soil, so their decline could have a significant impact on surrounding ecosystems.
The design has evolved into an ocean-plastic artificial island. Simulation software has been used to understand the movement and migration of large plastic waste in our oceans. This plastic waste has been sailed across oceans by ocean gyres. Margot Krasojevi? Architects developed an infrastructure that would support and engage with the accumulation of ocean plastic waste.

The ocean current simulation software creates a mapping of the accumulation of the highest density of plastic waste that was used as a starting point to und...