Moss Archive
Lake District, England2025Landscape
- Overview
- Moss remembers humidity the way timber remembers load. The archive is a sequence of cedar rooms open to weather, each holding a micro-climate and a drawer of field notes.
- Client
- Lake District Council
- Area
- 1.8 ha
- Status
- Built
How to make a scientific collection public without killing the specimens through footfall, flash, and souvenir-taking.
Raised walkways of reclaimed cypress, a drip irrigation fed by hillside runoff, and night visits only — moss photographs better in darkness, and visitors behave better too.
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214 species cataloged. Landscape Institute Medal, 2025. The night program is booked six months ahead.
Lead
James Morrow
Botany
University of Edinburgh
Joinery
North Woodworks