Amphibious
A public performance hall and floating residential retreat for young musicians. Building for transience and commitment to the community through a duet of extreme difference.
Floating Residential Retreat
Public and Private route through the site
Balloch town when residential building has departed into Loch Lommond and Location Plan: Journey from Railway to Loch.
Sited in the centre of Balloch town, the scheme acts as a gateway to Loch Lommond and The Trossachs national park, defining a new town square along the soft boundary of the river.
Visualisations of journey through the site
From train ride to public space, through performance to safety and privacy in nature. Balloch is the remnants of a fractured journey from steam train to steam boat up to the highlands. This project creates a new journey away from the urban.
Floating Residential Docked in Balloch
Retreats being of temporary nature have informed the architecture to be transient. Departing from the performance hall which remains a place making, accessible public asset to the town.
Elevation towards loch
The scheme is a duet of two buildings that require close physical proximity yet an extreme difference in privacy.
Water as a soft boundary for privacy
Residential Plans and Sections
The residential retreat is able to float due to a steel tubular pontoon and uses systems such as: rain water harvesting, passive ventilation and underfloor heating supplied by a closed-loop water source heat pump. Easily deconstructed as a post and beam frame, natural insulation and sheets of zinc to be recycled and reused.
