Mesolithic humans migrated off Doggerland as the last ice age turned the land to sea beneath their feet. Now the Oare Marshes are under threat from rising tides we must question our approach toward static domestic spaces when settling on uncertain ground. The project caters for clients that migrate: birds and humans living seasonally as their Mesolithic ancestors once did.

The inhabitants of the seasonal housing for avian and human life change daily, seasonally and yearly, and the forms they live in have been systematically collaged to meet their changing conditions. The flats they inhabit have been designed through questioning a designer’s approach to the medium. A weaving between printmaking, physical production and digital fabrication became the warp and weft of the architecture that looks across on the new settlement.

The project began as a culmination of research into migrating Jewish populations around London and belief that architecture is a calcification of human behaviour over time, in a place, which is grounded in our Neolithic relationship with buildings.