Floating Habitats

• Fragmentation - Reconnection

• Lost Spaces - Regained spaces

• Living on Water - Tradition/Locality

The Floating Habitats project creates natural home for animals, plants and people. It is an environmentally friendly, retreat space on floating platforms in Scottish Pitlochry, in its concept deeply rooted in the pursuit for innovative accommodation that would not only please with its scenic beauty but also offer a reconnection with nature in a way similar to the one of traditional style of living on ‘Crannogs’ - set on artificial islets. Its location on the lake is a reflection to the town’s past, prior to the erection of the dam which resulted in flooding and the creation of its artificial loch. The significant gap in its construction is an effort to simulate the position of the river before 1951, on the banks of which, the Old Recreation Park was situated. The idea of creating habitat for both people and animals in such an unusual plac e as a lake responds to the findings about the fragmentation of the natural tissue in the area.
Fragmented areas like forests, being natural environment for hundreds of species is often distorted by creation of roads, growing pollution, noise and now suffers from many vulnerabilities which should be addressed in contemporary architecture and design.