The Oare Marsh Settlement on the Kent coastline is uniquely positioned as a community for the uprooted and those seeking a fresh start in life.

As backdrop, the hamlet has the open expanse of the marsh, an ecologically diverse habitat, home to thousands of migrating birds.

Nestled between two town squares sits the home for unaccompanied minors fleeing persecution in their homeland.

The home provides a safe place for them to flourish, learn and imagine. Allowing the children to enter a world, designed for them, where they can finally be free. The ebb and flow of children through the home, as they find more permanent homes, is similar to that of the migratory birds that live on the site.

It is often said 'it takes a village to raise a child' and as such the project is a hub for the community, opening its doors as a fully inclusive space.

Through its thirty-year inhabitation, the home hopes to benefit the lives of many. In 2052 when the settlement is struck by the supermoon storm, the home will be resettled elsewhere in England, to continue to provide for the vulnerable within society.