institute of archaeology

 

stonehenge 2002

The buildings concern is the past, that's why its personality is introverted, it looks down, in front at the task in hand. The building is purely self referential and portrays a kind of mistaken arrogance.

At night there is a kind of reversal of form. It becomes a flux of human activity an evident place of happenings and goings on. A 'light box'. Placed on a plinth above the sensitive landscape it attempts to give an obtrusive scale-less presence.