McGill University

Design-Build Workshop

Team of students
with Prof. Robert Mellin

2017

Tilting, Fogo Island, NL

This project is a 3-week Design-built workshop organized by the McGill school of architecture. The centre axis of the platform is aligned with an existing silt in the rocks on the shore. The design of the platform evolved from the form of extended flakes leading to the traditional fishing stages. These always had centre boards for ease of walking or wheeling heavy loads, as well as “ballast locker” foundations or cribs with wood as a container for heavy stones.