The escalated effects of humanity on the planet's wilderness have dubbed the present epoch the Anthropocene, meaning that modern humans have since become the most dominant species in shaping the planet. The exploitation of wild spaces has led to a biodiversity crisis, where species face extinction and mass migration, causing ‘ecological tipping points’ - ecological imbalances due to missing ecological interactions from keystone species. Jamie Lorimer describes interventions to manage or even reverse this phenomenon as as a ’wilding experiment’, conveying the progressive idea of hacking / managing ecosystems using keystone species.

This project challenges the role of architecture in the wild to mimic missing keystone species in Ben Nevis, patching ecological gaps and progressing from the old wild to the new. The architecture facilitates the missing ecological interactions and provides a threshold for people to mediate across wild places. The scheme does not merely echo what a keystone species does but create an opportunity to connect anthropocentric humans back to wild places through participation in ‘wilding experiments’, in the hope of creating empathy for the fragile ecosystem.