Fish Stall, Folkestone Harbourside

The new seafood stall consists of a portal gate and a moving stall. It operates at the scale of the town and the town and the individual. The portal gate is fixed while the fish stall consisting of two shells is mobile - like a hermit crab. This animation brings game to the new square.

A portal gate which frames views to the harbour, the aquaduct and the town, affects its place at different scales. It could be viewed as of any scale or size. It is both useful and abstract - it forms a shelter and a frame, a means to measure the surrounding and appreciate Folkestone's urban texture.

The gate is homogeneus in its form and experience. It is completely made of timber. Constructed from an all timber latticework of main and cross members, as a series of linked portal frames bolted together and cross braced within its structural volume. It is clad in cedar in terms of load and strength. The material serves the purpose of structure and protection to the structure against adverse weathering. The uniformity of the material produces a monolith, where the surface is as unarticulated as possible and the idea of form is abstracted from its making.