Rehabilitation of Fort Campbell.

Year  :  2018
Project : Third year BSc. in Built Environment Studies Design Project

In understanding the values surrounding the dilapidated 20th century British Fort ‘Campbell’ and its context, it is possible to propose a plan for its regeneration strategy. Values relate to typological and architectural ones, which allow the appreciation of the Fort as a piece of military architecture; and to social and symbolic ones, which relate to the ruin’s current situation and its informal recreational use.

As a ruin, the BoP’s identity has evolved. The predetermined programme as laid out by the building’s function has been broken through a process of deformation. It is now a place to explore, to discover, to play. From a fort closed within itself, it is now open, a wound, in the countryside. The proposal aims to respect the newfound freedom through a permeable intervention that allows exploration in and around the structure while honouring the massing and volume that it used to have. The space frame structure and the observation deck are a nod towards the 19th century silhouette and the original observation use at the highest point.