![Screenshot from a video of a student video project showing the reimagined island of Tuvalu as a floating mass of hyper stylized structures.](https://aud.ucla.edu/media/pages/student-work/archive/the-tuvalu-studio-dot-tv/3907295176-1623280166/entertainment-hero-1024x576-crop-42-49.png)
The Tuvalu Studio (dot.tv)
IDEAS Entertainment Studio
2019
The Tuvalu Studio (dot TV), is a city inside of a building. More than that, we are proposing a nation contained inside one architecture. In this studio, we will be designing a super-structure for the citizens of Tuvalu, a nation of roughly 10,000 individuals residing on a land that is approximately 10 square miles. Tuvalu, like many island nations, is facing the plight of rapidly rising sea-level and an imminent danger of physical disappearance. As Tuvalu disappears as a natural hardware, this studio proposes to consider a total reconstruction of a completely artificial hardware to support a software facing many new challenges during a changing time.
To mobilize a focused thesis, students from the IDEAS Entertainment Studio subdivided Tuvalu into prefectures, jurisdictions, and districts, with each territory taking on its own architectural, economic, and socio-political agendas. Clusters of districts were combined into prefectures and jurisdictions each with their own hyper specialized urban role. Like a jigsaw puzzle, the fragmented parts were ultimately re-assembled back into a complete whole; a whole produced by 27 individuals working collectively.
Related Faculty |
Jimenez Lai, David Jimenez Iniesta, Kevin Pazik |
Related topics |
Entertainment, Climate Change, Urban Strategy |
![Drawing of a site plan for the reimagined island of Tuvalu.](https://aud.ucla.edu/media/pages/student-work/archive/the-tuvalu-studio-dot-tv/561731301-1623280166/3x3wholeplan-320x320.jpg)
![Image of a final student model representing the reimagined island of Tuvalu, with small house, palm trees and a waterway running through.](https://aud.ucla.edu/media/pages/student-work/archive/the-tuvalu-studio-dot-tv/4279441738-1623280166/mg-2922-320x240-crop-50-50.jpg)
![Image of a final student model representing a high-rise structure with a pink interior on the reimagined island of Tuvalu.](https://aud.ucla.edu/media/pages/student-work/archive/the-tuvalu-studio-dot-tv/1295238490-1623280166/mg-2925-240x240-crop-50-50.jpg)
![Image of two women looking at the mega-model of structures on the reimagined island of Tuvalu as part of RUMBLE, the end-of-year student exhibition.](https://aud.ucla.edu/media/pages/student-work/archive/the-tuvalu-studio-dot-tv/2832382895-1623280166/mg-2649-432x240-crop-50-50.jpg)
- Anna Drewitz and Andy Kim
- Diana Ashkanani and Xiaoyang Shi
- Miao Wang and Mingyuan Liu
- Site plan for the reimagined island of Tuvalu as part of the IDEAS Entertainment Studio with Jimenez Lai, David Jimenez Iniesta, and Kevin Pazik.
- Close up of a student model reimagining the island of Tuvalu.
- Close up of a student model reimagining the island of Tuvalu.
- Guests look at the mega-model of the reimagined island of Tuvalu at RUMBLE 2019.