Cortes Intervention
Location Cortes Island, BC
Status Built, Complete 2018
The Cortes Island Intervention is a project based on the unceded Klahoose, Tls’amin, and Homalso First Nations territory on Cortes Island. This project asks how an architectural intervention can act as a piece of social infrastructure fostering interaction first through the act of architectural experimentation and building, and second through the project's placement along an existing well-loved and well-travelled public trail.
This social infrastructure takes the form of a tensile fabric shading element suspended within a wooden frame. The frames are comprised of prefabricated modules and were assembled on this remote site. The structures were intended to provide shade and a moment of rest, but supported emergent activities acting as a platform, a playground, a marker, a memory, and more.
The site is located on a rocky plateau at the end of a peninsula in the Cortes Bay. The highest point of the site sits 200 feet above sea level and the plateau drops off dramatically in all directions providing a spectacular panoramic view of the ocean.
