The project proposes a stone masons residency, situated within a disused quarry on the Isle of Portland. The architecture is composed through a series of interspersed follies which inhabit the landscape. They are an architecture of place; their structural bodies morphed from the material of the quarry. Small rocks, remnants themselves of quarry waste, are utilised to create the architecture, which in turn delineates a series of territories for architecture to perform. The landscape of the quarry exists in a constant state of flux; its stoney boundary is threatened by the passages and movements of time. The proposals evolve, gradually buried under the masses of new existence. They become geological fragments.

The research within the portfolio employs the practice of scanning as a generative design methodology. The resultant architecture is culminated through a series of interdisciplinary methods that synthesise discussions of ownership, territory, presence and time. This temporal approach to design, one that is deeply entrenched in the quarry’s landscape, promotes the speculation of site specific, fully contextualised interventions.