This design-led process offers an alternative to the mass-produced shelters that are available through catalogues.

Commissioned through Midlands Architecture & Design Environment and the Government office for the West Midlands. The idea of this project is that each shelter will be different; each will reflect a different design response to the people and place and each will be the result of a unique collaboration between architect, artist and young people.

Our given site was in the centre of a traffic island in the centre of Wolverhampton, reached only by subway the space had been used to create a skate park for young people.

In collaboration with artist Gwen Heeney we developed two designs during a number of workshops, in which the youth took a central role. The form is derived from the analysis of the movement of skaters as they perform tricks and moves, creating a form that blurs the distinction between art and architecture.