Seacroft Archipelago
The proposal was developed for ‘6000miles’ a touring exhibition commissioned by the Lighthouse Centre for Architecture in Glasgow. Five architectural practices, including Block, were invited to propose ‘coastal machines’ in response to the changing social and environmental processes shaping Scotland’s coastal regions over the next fifty years.
The given site was a strait of water between Kyle of Lochalsh and the Island of Skye. In 1995 the opening of the Skye bridge effectively ‘reconnected’ Skye to the mainland. On the same day the bridge was opened the ferry link between Kyle and Kyleakin was discontinued severing a relationship of mutual dependency that existed between settlements.
The proposal would take the form of a man made archipelago, or series of platforms, extending from Skye to the mainland re-instating a trace of a historical ferry route. The platforms / islands / archipelago in the strait of water would function as a series of sea-crofts. The crofts would be used for growing scallops and mussels in cage and rope structures below the water.
