C O N C E P T

This building seeks to manage available resources responsibly; designed to be significantly prefabricated it optimises steels potential for such a project.

Systems have been kept simple - direct and largely passive. The life of the building is interactive with the energy it demands.

Peter Stutchbury

Maintenance accompanies complexity; the repetition of elements and systems expands upon a knowledge accessibly analysed, therefore system failure can be easily identified. Our building systems are deliberately simple and of low energy demand. Such a design in already established built environments could be questioned; but if economic, social and environmental issues are effectively embraced and controlled by this proposal then its repetition would instill awareness and contribute to the layering of historic references.

In making our proposal we refer to the past; the wonderful order and simplicity of the viking buildings, cut into the ground, thick stone walls, thatch roof, an internal space. A building only need bring joy - not bring anything beyond its reach.

Our building submission is a definitive response in a manner of beauty to the eye; its simplicity and order reinstate harmony and balance to form - whilst the maintenance of practical considerations is integral to its logical environmental approach.

Our concept was to find a path that ignites the human spirit builds upon the fundamentals and engages a more recent material with sensibility and style.

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