Peripheralities’ role is essential in the function of Brixham, in part because this threshold defines the general arrangement of the town. Reconnecting with the harbour relates to the circumstance that brought consciousness to the place.

Creating a new urban realm in harmony with the town, complementing existing businesses rather than being in direct competition, blending their uses with a successful application of nostalgic longing to promote Brixham’s unique selling point.

Creating a relationship that emphasises Brixham’s situation on the periphery by drawing the harbour in through an emulated roofscape.

Temptations of nostalgia from a visitor, and their memory of a homeland, investigating the meaning behind the expression ‘to be at home’, and the nostalgic relation to this imagined place.

The implied continuity with the past amasses the feeling of nostalgia as historic material builds a ritualistic complex surrounding events posing new questions of a place’s history and their curated longing.