Creative Shelter - Writer's Retreat

The aim of the project was to design a creative retreat and shelter for an elderly writer, located near Bute Park near the River Taf.

The shelter was expected to both protect the creative writer from the environmental conditions of the site, whilst also working as an interpretive shell, amplifying their sensorial input and providing inspiration to boost their creative skills.

Following my work on previous design projects, I selected poet and writer Philip Gross as my client, as I was inspired by his close work and history with the River Taf and its environment, most notably displayed within his poem ‘Folding the River’.

Through analysing the poem and deconstructing it into its most basic form, I was able to produce a creative shelter from the structure of the poem itself, blending the man-made with nature to create an immersive and yet protective shelter.