From Architectural Design: Tectonics - Timber Studio
2026
Proposal isometric [above]
1:50 model video [below]
Fish are landed, lifted, processed, salted, dried, packed, stored, and exported. Workers rest, repair, gather, and wait. Tides rise below. The project draws together the lessons from each of the preceding chapters. Timber as ordered system, harbour as working community, structure as enduring skeleton, and occupation as changing flesh.
A detailed section through the harbour wall became the key drawing through which the project was tested. Cutting through wall, tower, and wharf simultaneously revealed how the proposal sits across multiple levels. Sea below, landing deck above, drying structure rising vertically, and sheltered occupation nested within the frame.
The model excludes cladding and internal lining, revealing only structural members, joints, spans, and sequence of assembly. It is the building before occupation. Making the model clarified chronology in the sense of which members must be erected first, how secondary beams stabilise the primary frame, and where structure relies on triangulation or restraint.
Like the harbour buildings of Lunenburg, the model suggests that while skins and uses may change, the underlying skeleton can persist through many lives.
1:50 model video [below]
Fish are landed, lifted, processed, salted, dried, packed, stored, and exported. Workers rest, repair, gather, and wait. Tides rise below. The project draws together the lessons from each of the preceding chapters. Timber as ordered system, harbour as working community, structure as enduring skeleton, and occupation as changing flesh.
A detailed section through the harbour wall became the key drawing through which the project was tested. Cutting through wall, tower, and wharf simultaneously revealed how the proposal sits across multiple levels. Sea below, landing deck above, drying structure rising vertically, and sheltered occupation nested within the frame.
The model excludes cladding and internal lining, revealing only structural members, joints, spans, and sequence of assembly. It is the building before occupation. Making the model clarified chronology in the sense of which members must be erected first, how secondary beams stabilise the primary frame, and where structure relies on triangulation or restraint.
Like the harbour buildings of Lunenburg, the model suggests that while skins and uses may change, the underlying skeleton can persist through many lives.