Brief 

We needed to design a resort which linked the tourist with the environment surrounding them and actively got them to care about where they where visiting.

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Modulus Operands 

Our site was north of Lincoln, surrounded by the agriculture of the area this is was the first thing I wanted to include this in part of the design.

  I then started to look at how farming has impacted the environment, what I found was the UK has undergone several fazes of deforestation and has the lowest forest coverage per percentage in Europe.

  One of the major drivers of this deforestation is the need for farmland, a modern day example of this in the modern day is in Brazil where acres of Rain-forest are cut for land to graze cows. 

  What I wanted to do is to see if my design could accommodate a forested site promoting three things: Shelter and living spaces under the trees without creating a clearing, production of food under the trees and utilisation of foraging, use of sustainable energy production under a tree canopy.

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Process

The site neighboured the Newball forest which was the home of the small leaved lime, a species of tree which I wanted to try to promote the growth of on site.

  Looking further into the nearby forest to look at how I could organise my site, I looked at the size of the canopy so I could approximate the age and development of the tree. I then created a diagram and of this information and mapped it onto the site, I did this to the arrangement of the site would as natural and organic as if it were current covered by forest.

  I then started to think about the form of the building itself, the activities the guests would be engaging with for production of food I started to think about the goals of the project like led me to the idea of foraging. 

  This led me to the idea of looking into the forms of fallen seeds as inspiration for the building form. I decided on an acorn form with the sapling breaking out to leaving a shell with opening with could serve as windows.

  The construction of these buildings where wood frame stud and rammed earth, these where chosen for their low embodied energy cost relative to the site and U values.

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