(Submission panel by OCULUS.)

A co-winner in the Sea Change 2030+ ideas competition, the Embassy of the Drowned Nations is a proposal by the Sydney-based landscape architecture office OCULUS for an inverted Ellis Island sunk in the middle of Sydney Harbour.

Here, in this “blend of Atlantis and Eden,” refugees from former island nations are welcomed and “given the opportunity to grieve, to rest, to recuperate, to learn and to eventually rise up and join Australian society.”

Apart from temporary housing, the embassy will also host a research and cultural center devoted to climate change.

(Spotted at The Dirt; cf. Seuthopolis and (Im)possible Chicago #2.)