LEGIBLE LANDSCAPES FOR LOCAL LEARNING

A research laboratory that measures various aspects of the environment, informing relevant local parties on what should happen, can happen and needs to happen to the landscape/environment. As well as the lab, the site consists of six houses, eight flats, four temporary living spaces and open spaces for information talks and sample collection. Locals are encouraged to get involved with sample/data collection as this helps increase the public’s knowledge of the environment around them. The project brings together the urban and natural worlds into a co-inhabited scheme with more managed plants and foliage towards the west end of the site and wilder foliage and hedgerows towards the east of the site. This wildness transfers into the buildings design becoming more decayed. The project focuses on five main points; structure, flexibility, accessibility, permeability and landscape and structural growth/decay. The buildings comprise of a frame which is in-filled with a series of facade modules depending on location within the site and the unit occupants desires. All modules can be installed, removed and replaced with ease. The site is on the outskirts of the village of Southwater, West Sussex.