The Centre for Dance on Shooter’s Hill, is not a singular gesture, but rather an accumulation of five architectural interventions, deployed over the span of nearly two decades, each with different critical approaches to heritage and performance.

This act sees the cracks in the side of an abandoned Victorian pond as an invitation to repair. A lightweight, easily adaptable dance deck that spans between the monolithic concrete amendments creates a performance venue embedded in nature.

Building directly upon and between an existing ruin, this act questions the long held notion material stasis that underpins the practice of heritage. Reawakening the original volumes of the house, with radically different programmes to fill them.

A theatre housed within an existing ruin, which itself is sheltered within a large glass and timber superstructure. The multifunctional space can be adapted to any theatrical configuration, as well as be permeable to the outside during the summer.

Act IV: A workshop that builds sets from recycled on site spolia.

Act V: An irrigation network that begins at each of the four other sites and ends at a pond constructed within a buried ruin.