Esplanade was designed to be fully customizable to the site and their vision for their underwater real estate. It was designed as an architectural set which opens the doors to underwater designers to envision offshoots and diverse designs - it could be used as a labyrinth, an amphitheatre, a maze, or “border wall” - the edges and angles are different to each client who will use this “set” to create their own underwater restoration masterpiece.
ESPLANADE
The building blocks to build the restoration masterpiece of your imagination
A ‘lego’ set for underwater designers that can be added to each year, or season to grow with the conservation goals. By rigorously maintaining a basic form, construction and installation become simple and straightforward. Each layer is composed of an individual piece precisely joined to the growing platform.
The design of esplanade focuses on the path, for the audience and inhabitant, formed of singular fluid motion. This motion will begin a perpetual cycle to house and bear the local stages of life on the esplanade.
“The artificial landscape progressively moves towards solving the problem of unintentional damage to growing reefs by curating visitor movement along furrows; discouraging touch while encouraging exploration.”
- Guyon Brenna, Ocean Architect
About the Designers
Stirling Brenna has designed well over 45 theatre sets for operas, plays, and musicals and has performed on Broadway as an actor. Guyon Brenna, has won entry into the Buckminster Fuller Catalyst program in 2017 for oceanic structure design and was named one of the 30 Under 30 from Earth X in 2018. Together, they designed Podium and Esplanade.
"I have so admired Guyon for his Architectural design focus, and was so pleased to work together on this project in the university theatre building. Where we answered how a stage underwater could bring aquatic life to performances of dance, music, and culture." - Stirling
"Stirling was such a great collaborator on these projects. His background in scene design brought real depth to our understanding of the ways people will view and invest themselves within the forms and activities of the space. We had a very healthy competitive spirit throughout the projects where we were in a constant state of idea one-upmanship, continually pushing each other to be better." - Guyon