Sea Defence Museum
Buried within the headland of Berwick upon Tweed, Northumberland, England, the Sea Defence Museum was designed to house archive records and information regarding sea defences constructed in Britain during the World Wars. These defences, which inhabited prominent positions along the British coastline, have over the last 50 years begun to disappear, through natural coastal erosion and urban development. The design of the Sea Defence Museum incorporated and reflected the language of these past defences allowing the safe guarding and exhibiting of archive information.
The plan of the museum was extracted by mapping the positions of Berwick upon Tweeds World War Two defences, and overlaying this information with the town’s older historical development as a naval defence. Interconnecting lines created a drawing grid which through a series of rules informed the position of circulation galleries, auditoriums, libraries and secure archives.