Portland is an island which is not visible at first, but it is the island which is heavily shaped by quarrying, and much of its land is carved out through the extraction of stone.
Most of the island is very exposed and lies in a vast valley. At Portland Bill, wind becomes and is a constant and powerful force that is not legible. But in the moments of these quarried cliffs and stone cracks that you just easily keep finding yourself in, you experience and sense the place differently. Each stone crack and its corner allows to hear the space through the wind's whistles, showing its presence.
Can architecture translate wind into sound, and in doing so, make the environment of Portland perceptible?
