This bayside neighborhood in Oakland, CA connects the urban oasis of Lake Merritt to the industrial landscape of the southern estuary and the bay. Revitalizing what was a polluted and abandoned industrial site, this speculative project proposes to transform the empty lot into a working biofuel demonstration site. Native algae and phytoplankton would be harvested from the tidal ecosystem, embedded into structural pavilions fitted with algae biopanels, and, when ready, processed into biofuel onsite.
