‘The Beach Hut is one of the few building forms which has been seriously overlooked by contemporary architects the world over. They are perceived as a treasured feature of our coastal landscape, as quintessentially British as fish and chips and the knotted hanky, but in reality are usually little more than a painted shed’. Michael Trainor, Lead Artist & Project Curator.

The brief to re-imagine the simple beach hut produced an amazing array of design solutions which catapult our ideas of seaside micro-architecture into a new aesthetic rather than an endless pastiche of imaginary heritage. Traditional seaside references are gone, replaced by structures incorporating wind turbines, saunas, camera obscura, viewing platforms and space-ace materials with only the most oblique of witty nods to sandcastles and stripey windbreaks.

Nine of the models on display are in the process of being commissioned for full-scale construction in Summer 2007 along a 10mile stretch of coast between Mablethorpe and Chapel St. Leonards on the Lincolnshire coast, UK.

>>> Bathing Beauties: A World Premiere ‘Re- imagining the Beach Hut for the 21st Century’