Challenge
A research grant that assumed a concrete slab, ground that does not honor grant cycles, and a supply chain that ends at the ferry.
2026 · Isle of Mull · Research
Field Station Delta
A research camp that can be towed
- Year
- 2026
- Location
- Isle of Mull, Scotland
- Type
- Research
- Status
- Study
- Area
- 180 sq m
- Client
- Island Field Lab
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.
A modular station for volcanic-soil research, designed to be moved by tractor when the ground field shifts.
Approach
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.
Outcome
Prototype room tested in London, winter 2026. Full deployment pending a spring weather window.
Credits
Lead
Elena Carter
Ground study
Island Survey
Fabrication
Island Fabrication
Next project
Salt Line Observatory