Karmoy Fishing Museum

Internal shot toward ocean
Weaving on external, acting as windbreak

While searching for inspiration and ideas on coastal design and materials, I came across the Karmoy Fishing Museum in Norway. The concept was to design a building that would become part of the coastal scenery over time, and was done through a clever use of material and form.
The concrete has been treated with a fertilizing chemical that allows moss to grow on exterior surfaces without damaging the concrete, alike the nearby rocks. Also bracken weave, a traditional building technique used to climatize buildings made by weaving bracken branches, is used so tightly that wind cannot easily penetrate. These uses of natural materials may blend in well with the torquay landscape also, and may be able to be modified for use in torquay high.