Poster for The Dying Eye, a feature film shot in Edinburgh.

With major issues like climate change and resources wars looming on the horizon, we need to adapt to an unknown future. We need to prepare for the threats that are known as well as the ones we can’t imagine. Budapest has a history of survival. Wars, revolutions and dictatorships. The city still stands, and is proud of its heritage, displaying bullet holes without shame. With the city’s access to the Danube and rich network of underground springs, it provides a logical location for secure and safe water stockpile. Water is rapidly becoming more valuable than oil, and no doubt in the future will become more valuable than any other basic fuel. We are moving away from fossil fuels and oil with new technologies and recycling, but we have not yet found a way to rid ourselves of the need for water. This in itself means that there is a need to develop secure water stockpiles to ensure the survival of our race in the future, when the rivers run dry or run only with polluted sludge.A silent guardian sits as a moment in the landscape, announcing the presence of the subterranean sea hidden below. Its reach extends around the castle, infusing its landscape with life by thoughtful application of the water it cares for. Paths and pipes roam together amongst its walls, seeking glimpses into the water’s metamorphosis. A simple obelisk rises to the sky, visible from the surrounding hills, reminding humanity of water’s integral part in our survival.

Renga is a genre of Japanese collaborative poetry originating in the thirteenth century, with three to four poets generally being considered the minimum needed to be able to write new verse. The shelter provides enough room for around a dozen poets to meet in the speculated landscape. Pursuing a volcanic rock expanse for the design’s location to create an expressive and otherworldly environment to provide inspiration for its inhabitants. The structure consists of plywood and lightweight translucent plastic forms that would be carried to remote sites by hand and bolted together, secured to the landscape through pressure joints

This project sits within the rising cultural quarter of Dundee city, using its sculptural qualities to attract the public to its doors. A simple palette of grey and yellow concrete, provides easily distinguishable routes between exhibits, a library and performance areas. An internal green space, provides a hidden "living" room within the city, and with no partition walls to be seen, interaction is encouraged between the inhabitants. Passers by can gaze throughout the structure through the glazed sides provided, hopefully sparking their interest to enter, with the only solid elevation facing the nearby main road. The concept of this project is to tear up the old, and bring the materials together to create something new.

By pedestrianizing the street, an environment in which the car cannot intervene in human interaction in the way it dominates the rest of the city. Slim rivulets of water running the length of south tay street provide identity for the cultural quarter and create a impression of direction towards the cultural centre at the end of the street.

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