Oil Rocks' Logic of Accumulation

http://bldgblog.blogspot.com/2009/09/oil-rocks.html

BldgBlog describes the fascinating "offshore metropolis" of partially abandoned oil extraction infrastructure in the Caspian Sea named Oil Rock. The facilities are designed for both working and living on site and stretch for miles and miles in the form of points and polylines extending across the sea. The continuing additions to the complex over its lifetime recalls Stan Allen's "algebraic" architectural archetype wherein building blocks accumulate toward an "indeterminate whole" with the main focus on local relationships between parts.