algaculture.
M.Arch Project (2011)
Tiree, Scotland.
Three buildings investigate the landscape of Tiree, an island in the Scottish Hebrides, with an agency centred around the invigoration of a third generation of seaweed industry for the territory – creating alginates, but specifically and more significantly research into seaweed as biofuel. The brief draws upon the requirements set out by an imagined client known only as Professor M.
The landscape of the island is a prototype for this experiment and will play host to an offshore laboratory for the cultivation, research and processing of microalgae.
[1] a house for Professor M that is also a headquarters for the agency – an architectural and programmatic pivot which lies within the chaning terrotory of the coast – and a means by which agency and situation are allowed to engage.
[2 + 3] an archive, split across two sites either side of the shore, that deal with both the management of information for the Professor and also how this information is relayed to the rest of the island.
