OURCADIA is a joint thesis project which envisions a new existence in the uplands surrounding Hebden Bridge. This earthly community is rewetting precious blanket bogs to form carbon-sequestering peat and slowing water run-off into the valley. Built on community-owned land the project unfolds to support community, co-living and learning spaces. Encompassing a 17th-century farmhouse, community learning barn and co-living houses which adapt local live-work typologies. Using regenerative approaches and materials the buildings consolidate to form a robust and agricultural vernacular borrowing cues from the local stone use. The interventions will leave stone remnants for future generations of humans, animals and plant communities to reuse. Creating a new agricultural and regenerative local vernacular rooted in local typologies it embodies the goals of the people who live here.
