The Pottering Shed is designed to feel like an upside down boat. A timber structure sits on a concrete shelf, projecting from the landscape over the beach below. The building looks out across Poole Harbour, providing a space for the client that recreates the other-worldly peacefulness of being out at sea. A shell-clad gable end faces the sea. At the rear of the building the pitched geometry of the roof manipulates and reduces in size to become diminutive in height, sitting against a new dry-stone retaining wall in the planted landscape. The client wanted a space to write, draw, print, collage - what they refer to as their ‘analogue activities’ - and which provides a visual and climatic connection to the harbour.