Abstract
As an Island, Great Britain is defined by its relation with the sea. The territory has more than 11,000 miles of coastline and it is continuously delineated by the forces of the coastal erosion. In some parts beaches disappear and in other places are getting larger. With this physical complexity begins the personal interest of having a coastal site and to look for a mechanism such erosion to acts as a design trigger. The truly intention of this project is to create architecture with imprints of its site and time for a world that no longer needs universal principles, but a proposal assembled from many components, as
a bundle made from different strings: physical context, social needs, naturalawareness and narrative.
This project consist on a series of interventions on the Cuckmere Valley,at the south coast of England, where a quiet the valley is transgressed by the dynamic force of a river. The interventions are strategically set in the lanscape as a system that responds to the complex qualities of the site. From physical characteristic of the site ( morphology, moisture, conductivity, alkalinity) to historical events and monuments (defensive remains from the WWII, aircrash site), the deep study of the site and the correlation of the different scenarios gave as a result a tangible canticle to reinvent the site and calls to relate the human with the nature. The elements of this intervention are follies that at the same time are tools to decode re-link and re-understand the site.
When a pebble is transported by the sea along the coastline, both pebble and sand left behind some remains on the other body. My project is a syntesis of that. All is about the experience of reading and making scarfs in a site as a way to relink the nature with the personal and social experience of enjoying it. The visitors have the chance to be “weavers” of a new morphology by depositing new memories to the site, Then architecture is not merely about transforming a space but also is considered as a physical support for memory.
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