Shrine of the Tellurists - isometric

Isometric drawing, pen and pencil on yellow trace paper. The drawing is from the speculative architectural project 'Shrine of the Tellurists'. Original dimensions: 850mm x 750mm

Exhibited at the 2025 Royal Academy Summer Show.

Are DIY politics a valid architectural strategy for a future warmer world?

The project imagines and anticipates a world in which our dependence on sprawling global supply chains has lessened, signalling a return to a more seasonal way of life. The project is a retelling of a village blacksmiths and a union pub where a new DIY identity can be formed.

The employment of a solar furnace is the literal and figurative hearth of the project. While the casting output may be initially frustrating, the convenience of our power supplies that the west has enjoyed over the last 50 years is a luxury that is costing us a habitable planet. While convenience may be obviated in the mass adoption of such technology for heating purposes, a nostalgic reverence for earth's natural cycles may resurface as smithing would be eagerly anticipated like a late summer harvest or the return of migratory birds. This aims to create fertile ground from which healthier social structures can emerge, the belief being that first we must heal our relationships with each other before we can meaningfully fix our relationship with the earth. 

The print is landscape and at either A3 or A4 on 165gsm matt paper. it will arrive unframed in a post tube.