The exit of Britain from the EU and the proposed shift to the new Environmental Land Management Scheme has allowed the UK to rewrite subsidies and propose an ambitious new direction. It seeks to redefine the nation's relationship with the landscape: one of ‘environmental value’ and ‘stewardship’.

Small insertions, dwarfed in size by the expanse they form, serve to breach existing sea walls and curate tidal flows, mediating a new landscape within.

Inviting the tide, not just to the ‘controlled’ environment behind the sea wall, but also beyond that of the architectural, results in four pavilions whose internal climate, form and voice force a conversation on the visitor. This conversation is realised through the careful tuning of structure and architectural components, with standard methods of vibrational dampening, erosion prevention or thermal isolation rejected.

As the landscape is reflooded, the structures aim to establish a new architectural norm: one where natural forces are not held behind embanked walls, but are instead permitted to converse with the internal, with tide and tourist collaborating to realise an architectural design.

They hum, drift or moisten, marking the tide and reframe society's relationship to a changing coast as the stewards of the environment.