Photo b/w: RIA
Geo: Oil Rocks, AZ
It so happened that I accumulated quite a few interesting people in a banned VK analog, among them writer Ragim Jafarov. I don’t know how he is connected to architecture, but I have always been attracted to his five-minute notes and stories. Recently, I stumbled upon an audio play based on his book "The Tower of Silence." No locals from Food City have ever told me about Azerbaijan in such a delicious way.
I won’t spoil the plot, but I will tell you about one curious location. Imagine an oil platform shaped like a city in the middle of the Caspian Sea, intertwined with a network of roads on stilts stretching nearly 300 km! It sounds like science fiction, but it actually exists and is called Oil Rocks.
The first platform was laid in the Azerbaijan SSR in the late 1940s. The initial foundation consisted of sunken ships, among which was the world’s first oil tanker, Zoroastr. The main square, hovering above the waves of the Caspian Sea, hosts panel and block houses up to 9 stories tall, adapted to marine corrosion, as well as a full park with trees.
Today, getting there is almost impossible: the area is closed to tourists. Therefore, we explore this futuristic industrial site through rare footage that is practically not available in the public domain.
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Geo: Oil Rocks, AZ
It so happened that I accumulated quite a few interesting people in a banned VK analog, among them writer Ragim Jafarov. I don’t know how he is connected to architecture, but I have always been attracted to his five-minute notes and stories. Recently, I stumbled upon an audio play based on his book "The Tower of Silence." No locals from Food City have ever told me about Azerbaijan in such a delicious way.
I won’t spoil the plot, but I will tell you about one curious location. Imagine an oil platform shaped like a city in the middle of the Caspian Sea, intertwined with a network of roads on stilts stretching nearly 300 km! It sounds like science fiction, but it actually exists and is called Oil Rocks.
The first platform was laid in the Azerbaijan SSR in the late 1940s. The initial foundation consisted of sunken ships, among which was the world’s first oil tanker, Zoroastr. The main square, hovering above the waves of the Caspian Sea, hosts panel and block houses up to 9 stories tall, adapted to marine corrosion, as well as a full park with trees.
Today, getting there is almost impossible: the area is closed to tourists. Therefore, we explore this futuristic industrial site through rare footage that is practically not available in the public domain.
@gorkjournal
3D · Render · Photo · Archviz · GORK