BRIDPORT PAVILION OF REGENERATIVE PRACTICE

The Bridport area is home to many meaningful endeavours to create a new harmonious relationship to land in response to climate crises. Whether it's the countless highly skilled craftspeople using locally sourced material, the growers and food producers providing the biweekly markets with lush produce, or the energy campaigners challenging the norm to bring clean sustainable energy to people at a price they can afford. Bridport is alive with positive change.

Bridport society does their bit too. The antiques and vintage markets nurture a communal appetite for objects from the past that might elsewhere fall into disrepair. The pubs, venues and green spaces of Bridport constantly re-enliven folk ways of celebrating the seasons changing and bringing people closer together, and closer to the land.

As part of Dorset Town Of Culture Bridport 24 we saught to celebrate all of this with a highly colaborative pavilion. Designed and built in 3 weeks with the generous help of many people (see final image). Our playful, educational, expansive methodology attempted to make every step of the design-build process as meaningful to as many people as possible. 

SITE CHOICE:

INITIAL CONCEPTS:

PUBLIC PRESENTATION:

BUILDING WITH CLAY:

CARPENTRY:

LIME RENDER:

BRINGING IT ALL TOGETHER:

More-than-human Media:

Boggits: