When viewed from the current neoliberal perspective, it can be observed that the rapidly advancing urbanization processes are located along the axis of industrialization and economic development. Accordingly, with the increasing population, the gradual expansion of the peripheries of cities due to immigration has brought with it the need for dense building stock and new transportation networks. While reinforced concrete structures are one of the most effective tools of urbanization in the short term due to their economical and simple production, they threaten nature in the long term when combined with rapid and irregular urbanization practices. Land fill in the seas, increasing temperatures due to negative micro-climatic conditions brought by urban heat islands due to impermeable surfaces replacing green areas,  natural disasters such as floods and tornadoes are just some of the known consequences of the threat posed toward nature by the increased use of concrete in cities.

Based on this tension between nature and concrete, beyond seeing the overuse of concrete as the primary concern, "on water" utilizes concrete as a tool to get closer to nature. The project focuses on the sea-land threshold in order to revive the coastal culture, whose identity has not been fully formed due to the constant changes to its physical boundaries throughout history, and therefore remains unused even today. The threshold that is defined as ‘between sea and land’ is also characterized as a threshold that exists above and below water, with reference to the undersea ecosystem that has been destroyed by the filling of the sea. Based on these thresholds, the project proposes a new relationship with the element of water in order to close the gap between us and nature.