Salt Flat Hybrid is highly sustainable, hybrid entity, aiming to take on new program of living and research, while performing primarily as a geothermal power plant in the Salton Sea. Due to the fact that over the next seventy years more than half of the sea will disappear, revealing a salt flat basin, new opportunity for architecture has been therefore created – it has to be re-investigated how to build and exist on the periphery and how to engage in a dialogue with the decay of its surroundings...
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