A settlement of Martian miners, set in 2052, is home to those who have returned from the stone mines of Mars to live on Earth and practice stone construction and fabrication.

Having been settled on Mars for the past thirty years, these miners have now come to reside on the Isle of Portland within the Coombefields quarry. They carry on their love for construction using stone found as a natural resource in the island’s landscape. Whilst being back on Earth they indulge in the environment and indulge their senses, having dwelt in the sensory negative Martian landscape for quite some time. The site is a large-scale active workshop, where the miners practice methods of addition, subtraction and casting derived from their time on Mars; now in the new site, the Portland vernacular is combined with the Martian.

The project concluded by exploring stone construction through the building program as a Martian Portland Vernacular ending at The New Stone Age; a future development will come in Year 5.

The project explores how we can learn from the applied lessons of living on Mars and Earth. It aims to inform an understanding of what that would mean to draw inspiration on multiplanetary life, whilst keeping an eye on what it means to be human.