As Found

Images, Tom Stark, & Baillie Baillie
Words, Colin Baillie.

As Found

“What is made by light casts a shadow, and the shadow belongs to light” Louis Kahn

Much of what we do as designers starts from an idea about shaping, defining, and realising the atmosphere and material character of a space. Working within the hollowed-out shells of former agricultural buildings, the impulse to act is measured against a will to do as little as possible. A will for interventions to be something close to anonymous, and for the subtleties of light, patina, and layers of past use to be celebrated.

Spaces like these remind us that light can be more meaningful when registered by its opposite, and that saturation of natural light in space, robs something poetic from material form.

Habitation needs to find a gentle foothold, to soften, bring human scale, and a sense of home to these church-like caverns, and that necessitates significant change. But we would like our overlayed layers to register the qualities of what is found, like light acknowledges its shadow.