Field Station Delta
Isle of Mull, Scotland2026Research
- Overview
- Permanence is the wrong luxury on an active island. The station is a set of six aluminum rooms on timber skids, each a laboratory, bunk, or kitchen, lashed together with marine hardware.
- Client
- Island Field Lab
- Area
- 180 sq m
- Status
- Study
A research grant that assumed a concrete slab, ground that does not honor grant cycles, and a supply chain that ends at the ferry.
We designed for two people and a tractor. Rooms unbolt in four hours. Solar skins fold. The only poured element is a compost trench that we accept as a ruin.
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Prototype room tested in London, winter 2026. Full deployment pending a spring weather window.
Lead
Elena Carter
Ground study
Island Survey
Fabrication
Island Fabrication