CASTELLUM

Encapsulated by the trees of the Green’s Windmill hill in Steinton, Castellum is assembled in a contemporary formation of a fortress which provides refuge for its visitors whilst offering the prospectivity over the framed view of southern area of Nottingham.

The primal sense of shelter is consecutively stimulated throughout the architecture through phenomenological interplay between refuge this dwelling provides and the threatening outside occurrences, as emphasised through my context thesis.

Based on Roman philosophy, successful dwelling contains the manifestation of four natural elements. Each wing of the building identifies a specific element as its conceptual basis.

FIRE

Embodied in the form of the Bar area. Fire’s ever moving nature and transformation of matter is translated into change of form and materials. Additionally, the notion of warmth is tackled as a gradual enclosure into the building.

WATER

Embodied in the form of the Pool area. Alongside applying the obvious physical matter of this element, its conception is exhibited through the movement, flow and curvature of circulation throughout the project’s spaces.

EARTH

Embodied in the form of the Entrance. It acts as a transition - blurring the line between the terrain and architecture on the site. The passage serves as a doorway for the landscape impending from the outside, which then crawls through the whole complex of Castellum.

AIR

Embodied in the form of the Private Suites. This Northern part of the site is driven by the heavy focus on the framed vista of Nottingham alongside the intuitive link with the windmill

itself.