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@oscarchitecture_ ‘Canongate Meadery’ 2025
Axonometric Drawing (45-45), HB pencil on parchment paper
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The city of Edinburgh, like many old cities, exists in a situation of multiple temporal frames that lend it a mythic quality. Tasked with proposing Inhabited Bridges across an imagined wetland, the proposal for a meadery seeks to act as a gathering point within this mythic context.
Extending east from what was formerly the Nor Loch is a fluid territory - sometimes wet, sometimes dry - separating the Old and New Towns. At the far end, within Canongate, a stone tower is planned, rooted firmly in the volcanic bedrock of Edinburgh. As the stone tower is built up, a well is dug down, tapping into the saturated aquifer beneath, long known to brewers as the Charmed Circle. The tower is a meadery, where honey (cultivated from the wetland flora) and water (dredged from the Charmed Circle) ferment together to produce mead. It is a place of experimental Zymology; old recipes are researched, reinvented, and renewed, and through this form of cultural archaeology, time is bridged.
Nestled into this tower and propped on stone foundations, a bridge is constructed. Timber vessels are suspended across the wetland, renewing a civic commons that has been nearly rendered extinct: the Mead Hall. Spanning across the wetland, the bridge links to Whitfoord House, a veterans’ residence gradually marooned by the encroaching wetland. In gathering these moments of landscape and production, the Mead Hall becomes a place of refuge, banqueting, and community.
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