 Ramsgate, Kent 2011 Project in development:
After twenty years of producing work in response to urban
architecture and the build environment Forster & Heighes plan to turn their attention to a post industrial coastal landscape, examining its shifting form, its histories, evocative nature, and how over time it shapes and defines the character of the communities that inhabit and pass through it.
The chosen landscape, Pegwell Bay in Kent, and in particular the abandoned hovercraft port found there, is situated on a stretch of coast between the towns of Ramsgate and Sandwich. A vast curved natural inlet of sea, sand, shingle, marsh and chalk cliff Pegwell exists physically, and in the imagination, as a liminal, constantly reforming, in-between place – a place in constant process, vanishing and remerging: a landscape in performance.
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