At home in Wexford we live near the beach, we spend all of our summer on the beach. I found the beach in Dundee incredibly beautiful and a little homely. I think this tied in well with the brief of designing a shelter. We all have an inherent instinct to find a place of safety, comfort and shelter no matter where we are.
As a group we made a decision to remain in the forest and build some sort of wigwam structure in a suitable location. The location we chose was a circle of trees surrounding a dip in the landscape, this gave some natural shelter and the circular formation of the trees would provide a natural plan which we could use to wall off an area of shelter. We tried to put up a wigwam but we really should have brought a shovel because there was no way that three large logs were going to stand up by just being propped against each other! Anyway, we did manage to wall off the circle and create quite a sheltered space using branches with foliage still on them, ferns and grasses etc. I think we judged its success by the fact that we were able to have a nice sheltered picnic in our area at the end of the day.
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