The whale’s ‘Venetian blinds’ – or baleen – inspired an idea of making the four beach front shelters from a regular grid of fins that could filter out the wind and rain and make a delicate, yet assertive addition to Bexhill’s seafront architecture.
To make these structures affordable and efficient, we engineered the concept of a kit of standardised Corten and plywood components – materials that have a natural affinity to seaside structures such as groins and rusty sheet piling.
The project was Finalist in the RIBA/ Bexhill ‘New Wave’ Design Competition in 2010.
