UNIT K

The Devil’s Quoits Hotel

 Landscape is a captivating system that connects everything and everyone. Unit K explores British countryside and the signs of time woven into the fabric of the land: from prehistory to the present day. Addressing complex relationships with time, from Neolithic stone circles to contemporary industrial sites, we create clearly defined spatial systems that have the capacity to enrich the monumental depth of the practice of everyday life.

This year, Unit K explored a patch of English countryside within which we found a tiny island,
a lake, a Neolithic stone circle, an industrial site, a cemetery, a cricket club and a manor. The site surrounding Devil’s Quoits Stone Circle near Stanton Harcourt in Oxfordshire is a site so multi-layered that it allowed us to see what Andrei Tarkovsky calls subjective logic, “the thought, the dream, the memory - instead of the logic of the subject”. Through film, models and drawings, we translate sometimes impossible structures of imagination, into architectural proposals that present a new way of dreaming, experiencing and being in the landscape.