A new harbour workshop and landmark on the edge of Bristol’s Cumberland Basin and surrounding dock infrastructure. Constructed in stone, the building operates as a series of sculpted voids derived from physical and digital fluid dynamic simulations. The pressure differentials invoked by the architecture enable the passive ventilation of the workshop spaces, enabling a zero-carbon approach to a traditionally energy-intensive building programme.
At the terminus of the once expansive maritime infrastructure lining Bristol’s waterways, lies a wharf. Facing outward, the building is positioned at the helm of the transmuting shipyard.
The building colonises the basin with its walls and rooms reaching out, like limbs stretched into the abyss of water, they clasp at the space around as if to expand its cause.