AquaNine: The World's First Floating Golf Course
An innovative floating golf course design by Baca Architects featuring sculptural turf islands, marine docking facilities, and a striking cantilevered clubhouse.
- What we like about this project
- A regulation-style golf green completely isolated on a floating pontoon structure surrounded by boats.
Materials
- turf
- sand
- metal
- glass
- composite-marine-structure
Visual identifiers
- floating-golf-course
- cantilevered-clubhouse
- marine-infrastructure
- sculpted-turf
Style tags
- futuristic
- innovative
- maritime
Visual tags
- floating
- coastal
- sports-facility
- master-plan
- innovative-infrastructure
- Geometry
- Curvilinear floating platforms integrated with sculpted turf greens, sand bunkers, and a cantilevered multi-story clubhouse structure.
- Facade system
- Glass and metallic panel cladding on the cantilevered clubhouse volume.
- Structural guess
- Pontoon-based floating marine platforms supporting lightweight landscape loads and a cantilevered steel-framed clubhouse.
- Spatial scale
- Vast macro-scale landscape and marine infrastructure with human scale suggested by the golfer and boats.
- Lighting
- Bright daylight under a partly cloudy sky, creating sharp shadows and glints off water surfaces.
- Atmosphere
- Bright, luxurious, and surreal isolation on open water.
- Environmental context
- Open coastal water surrounded by distant landmasses and marine traffic.
- Spatial experience
- Expansive marine setting where turf islands float directly over water, connected by docks and watercraft access.
- Composition rhythm
- Dynamic diagonal framing starting from the foreground golfer leading the eye across open water toward the floating greens and clubhouse.
- Style reading
- Futuristic floating infrastructure
- Program
- Floating sports and leisure resort
- Perspective
- Aerial/Site
- Discipline
- landscape
- Materials
- turf, sand, metal, glass, composite-marine-structure
- Visual identifiers
- floating-golf-course, cantilevered-clubhouse, marine-infrastructure, sculpted-turf
- Style tags
- futuristic, innovative, maritime
- Visual tags
- floating, coastal, sports-facility, master-plan, innovative-infrastructure
- Geometry
- Curvilinear floating platforms integrated with sculpted turf greens, sand bunkers, and a cantilevered multi-story clubhouse structure.
- Facade system
- Glass and metallic panel cladding on the cantilevered clubhouse volume.
- Structural guess
- Pontoon-based floating marine platforms supporting lightweight landscape loads and a cantilevered steel-framed clubhouse.
- Spatial scale
- Vast macro-scale landscape and marine infrastructure with human scale suggested by the golfer and boats.
- Lighting
- Bright daylight under a partly cloudy sky, creating sharp shadows and glints off water surfaces.
- Atmosphere
- Bright, luxurious, and surreal isolation on open water.
- Environmental context
- Open coastal water surrounded by distant landmasses and marine traffic.
- Spatial experience
- Expansive marine setting where turf islands float directly over water, connected by docks and watercraft access.
- Composition rhythm
- Dynamic diagonal framing starting from the foreground golfer leading the eye across open water toward the floating greens and clubhouse.
- Style reading
- Futuristic floating infrastructure
- Program
- Floating sports and leisure resort
- Perspective
- Aerial/Site
- Discipline
- landscape