This Unit sought to generate a series of small, highly detailed architectures designed to be nestled into the grain of the historic coastal town of St Andrews in the Kingdom of Fife. 

Utilising the rich material, tectonic and tactile concerns of cabinetry, Kists, Cloisters + Cabinets aimed to explore how the language of architectural detail might be used to convey both a sensory and a poetic experience. 

Through a carefully structured address to context, drawing from the cultural narratives of a specific place, and a critically charged sequence of iterative scaled tectonic investigations, the Unit set out to develop a meaningful language of architecture in detail.  

A language able to offer back to the town, its landscapes and its institutions a suite of rich and creatively informed interventions that engage with its past whilst initiating new programmes and civic rituals for its possible futures.