Tom Leggat Y5
A Corn(ish) Community Increasingly, the Cornish coastline is being appropriated by outsiders, for outsiders, specifically for second-home ownership. As a result, Cornish locals often have no choice but to relocate to poor quality housing, often situated miles from the coastline and away from their previous communities. To address this issue, a new village is proposed on the banks of the River Camel in North Cornwall. By incorporating second homes within its fabric, a new typology for both second home-owners and local residents is established.
“Life in Cornwall is built on rituals” which previously brought communities together through a common shared experience. To enable the formation of new communities, a ritualised event is enacted. Through the creation of a deployable instrument, this project refocuses attention away from the conflict between local communities and outsiders, moving towards a collaborative architecture that embraces both past and present traditions of Cornwall.
By allowing the architecture to be guided by this newly formed community, the project seeks to understand and subsequently meet the specific needs of its future inhabitants. Using a pub(lic) model, a dialogue is established between the architect and the community, thereby encouraging collaborative design and a more immersive understanding of the project as a whole.
